Edited sentence: Although Coutts ranks highly in private banking leagues there is much competition with other top private banks.Coutts has seen client numbers reduce in recent years due to a perception that Coutts has come almost too large to still be considered a private bank.These customers have instead favoured smaller institutions such as Hottinger & Cie and Duncan Lawrie Bank, both small and exclusive london based financial institutions that have been trading for at least 150 years