Anna Maria Andriotis
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45 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Jan
Anna Maria Andriotis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Those engines right now are very strong.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley both posted record annual revenues in 2025 in their investment banking and trading divisions.
All six major banks, including also JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup,
and Wells Fargo posted increases in investment banking and trading revenue from a year prior.
What has contributed to all of this is that, number one, confidence has returned to corporate boardrooms and executive suites to pursue mergers.
2025 produced what was the second highest merger volume on record.
The pickup in M&A is also fueling a big rise in lending.
Loans that are used to make dividends
These deals happen at all points to company confidence being up.
Bankers said that they do expect more deal activity.
Goldman CEO David Solomon said the bullish view internally at Goldman is that in 2026, there will be a new record in terms of M&A.
In addition, IPOs, bankers said, are expected to pick up in 2026.
Some talked about how they're hoping that this year could be the biggest year ever for IPOs, citing things like Anthropic, the AI company, as well as Rocket Maker, SpaceX.
What's triggering that boost is that the stock market
has risen to record highs.
We are in a regulatory environment that is viewed by many companies as being much more friendly to dealmaking.
And of course, the massive need among a variety of companies to build out their AI capabilities and other infrastructure as well, which in turn results in them borrowing more.
All of that is playing out in the core divisions of the big banks, dealmaking and lending.
Well, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley made similar warnings to what Jamie Dimon said, essentially focused on the increasing uncertainty around a number of policy and geopolitical issues.
We see what's happening right now with Greenland and actually the impact that it's having on markets.
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