Reckoning For the fourth year in a row, Wall Street banks set a record for fees even amid turmoil in the markets. As bankers pay for their past excesses, history shows fees may plummet in 2008.

M&A
Record merger advisory fees in 2007 will be hard to repeat for Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street because the buyout boom has come to a halt.

EQUITIES
UBS led in stock underwriting, which held up even as bond issues and buyouts wilted. A dearth of IPOs in 2008 threatens to knock fees off their record pace.

Bonds
High-yield bonds to fund leveraged buyouts made 2007 a record year and left a mess for fixed-income bankers in 2008.

CDOs
Merrill Lynch and Citigroup led in sales of collateralized debt obligations—and racked up multibillion-dollar losses when they turned sour.

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A nice review for year 2007, five files, 26 Pages.

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