M&A and the digitalization of investment banking Inside Financial & Risk

The digitalization of investment banking has created new opportunities, from the automation of workflows to using AI to find hidden M&A opportunities. Leon Saunders Calvert, Global Head of M&A & Capital Raising, explores the latest trends. The fundamental promise of digitalization for most capital raising and M&A professionals is the use of intelligent computing power to make more sense of the world and derive profitable insights from it. But many prosaic challenges stand in the way of implementing such an ambition. We believe a number of tactics are emerging that address some of these capital markets-specific challenges from the digitalization of investment banking.