Despite all the changes in banking, at least one thing has stayed constant for decades: the desire of industry executives to plaster their institutions' names on large event spaces.

"Every time you see our name associated with a sponsorship, you will find traces of participation," said Francesco Lagutaine, chief marketing officer at M&T Bank, which has naming rights for the home stadium of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. "Participation in community rituals is how we measure our success."

One thing that has changed over the last 25 years is the cost of stadium naming rights. Banks that inked deals in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including JPMorgan Chase and M&T Bank, locked in lower prices than financial institutions that are in the market for naming rights today.

Here are the 15 largest naming-rights agreements between banks and U.S. professional sports venues for which data is available, ranked by total deal value. American Banker reviewed lists of sports venues as well as press releases and news reports announcing the partnerships to determine the biggest deals sponsored by banks. The financial terms of some naming-rights deals have not been disclosed.

Baseball stadiums dominate the list, but a football stadium takes the top spot, and four basketball venues also make the top 15.