Here’s everything we know about how Wall Street banks are embracing AI

Investment bankers are hopeful that corporate America’s obsession with AI could kick off a new era of mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs. From execs stepping into recently created roles to accommodate the sector to industry veterans launching their own AI-focused M&A-advisory firm, meet 11 investment bankers poised to lead Wall Street’s AI revolution.

• Wall Street is gearing up for an AI shopping spree. Meet 11 bankers poised to come out on top.

AI could save junior bankers time by automating tedious tasks known all too well by Wall Street’s youngest ranks. But it can also make it harder to break into the industry by shifting the skills required for entry.

• How AI will change the job of the junior banker and raise the bar to entry

A former Goldman Sachs managing director built an AI-powered networking tool to spur dealmaking. The budding startup, Louisa AI, already has a few clients, including Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and a global exchange.

• See the pitch deck that helped a former Goldman Sachs exec raise $5 million for an AI-powered networking startup that feeds deal ideas to bankers.

Here’s how former investment bankers left their Wall Street jobs to build an AI startup to solve junior bankers’ woes.

• See the pitch deck that helped former investment bankers raise a $7 million seed round for their generative ‘AI consigliere’ to bankers and analysts