World’s Best Investment Banks 2021: Sector Winners Advertisement April 05, 2021 Last year, in the shadow of Covid-19, global investment banking was charged with helping companies persevere through a period of extraordinarily slow economic growth, lockdowns and closed borders. Even so, net revenue for investment banking increased about 20% to $93.2 billion in 2020, from $78 billion in 2019, according to Dealogic. Driving this growth were industries that found a silver lining in the disruption and social distancing, including online media/entertainment, e-commerce, financial services, health care, industrials/chemicals and technology; while the oil and gas, power and real estate sectors suffered declines. Global Finance’s sector awards for investment banks, given to 10 banks in 12 different sectors, recognize each bank’s exceptional service in a specific industry.