Finance companies in New York: 9,677 locations, the listed giants, the banks based in the city and who regulates them

This page is for people checking a New York financial firm before they borrow, invest or sign, job seekers sizing the industry, and B2B sellers whose customers are banks, lenders, brokers, asset managers and insurers. It uses Census establishment counts, the companies' own 10-K filings, the FDIC's bank records and the SEC's adviser data.

New York City's finance industry in Census data

County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 52 (finance and insurance), for the five counties of New York City:

Of the 9,677 establishments, 5,137 have 1 to 4 employees, 1,834 have 5 to 9, 1,133 have 10 to 19 and 718 have 20 to 49; the Census Bureau doesn't publish the larger classes for the five boroughs combined. Manhattan's own file is complete and shows the top end: 306 establishments with 50 to 99 employees, 258 with 100 to 249, 116 with 250 to 499, 66 with 500 to 999 and 51 with 1,000 or more.

The counts are establishments with paid employees, not companies: a bank with 40 branches counts 40 times, and an independent agent or adviser with no staff isn't counted. A company's head office can be classified as a management office rather than in finance.

What Manhattan's finance jobs do

Manhattan figures from the County Business Patterns 2023 county file. Average pay is annual payroll divided by employees for the two largest groups.

Investment firms and securities firms together employ 165,993 people in Manhattan, more than half its finance jobs. The central bank row is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The largest listed finance companies headquartered in New York

Each figure is the company's own top-line measure from its 10-K for 2025; banks report revenue net of interest expense, so the measures differ by business. We left out StoneX and Galaxy Digital, whose reported revenues are mostly gross sales of physical commodities and digital assets: StoneX reported $132,378.2 million of revenue against $128,251.3 million of cost of physical commodities sold.

The banks headquartered in the city

The FDIC records each insured bank at its main office, which isn't always where the parent company is based. In the FDIC's institution data as of 30 June 2026, 49 FDIC-insured institutions have a main office in the five boroughs, with $1.46 trillion of assets. JPMorgan Chase Bank's main office is in Columbus, Ohio, and Citibank's in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, so neither is among them.

Eight of the 49 are insured US branches of foreign banks, and 21 have less than $1 billion of assets. The SEC's October 2026 adviser data adds 1,921 registered investment advisers with a main office in the city; the largest by regulatory assets are J.P. Morgan Investment Management ($3,519.4 billion), Goldman Sachs Asset Management ($2,648.9 billion) and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith ($1,781.6 billion).

How to check a New York finance company

Match the legal name and address in your documents to the regulator's record, not to a brand name, and treat a firm that won't give you its license or registration number as a warning sign.

Selling to New York financial firms

The buyer depends on size. In Manhattan's 51 establishments with 1,000 or more employees, purchases go through procurement, information security and third-party risk teams, and line-of-business owners sponsor them. In the thousands of small offices, an owner, branch manager or chief operating officer signs. Expect security review either way: firms that hold a DFS license, charter or registration fall under its cybersecurity regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500, which requires them to maintain risk-based cybersecurity programs.

Illustrative example. The company, prices and results are invented; the counts are from the data above.

Hudson Ledger Compliance (hudsonledger.example) sells a recordkeeping and surveillance tool for small broker-dealers and advisers. It targets Manhattan securities and investment-firm establishments with 10 to 99 employees and shortlists those registered with FINRA or the SEC, an illustrative 400 firms. With the chief compliance officer and the COO at each, that's 800 contacts. Thirty new clients at $24,000 a year is $720,000. Its trigger is a new branch, a hiring spree in compliance or a FINRA disciplinary action against a peer. Bebop finds firms that match a description like that and drafts the first message; how to find decision makers covers locating the compliance lead.

Subject: Recordkeeping at [firm] after the [recent change]

Hi [first name],

[Firm] has added [number] registered reps since [month]. Each new hire adds devices and messaging channels your recordkeeping has to capture and your supervisors have to review.

We give small New York broker-dealers and advisers one place to capture, review and produce communications, set up in a week.

Would it help to see how a firm your size runs its daily review?

[Your name]

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