Investment Banking Trends and Outlook for 2023

Investment Banking Trends and Outlook for 2023

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Top Trends in 
Investment Banking

Within the AlphaSense platform, the search term 
“investment banking” has been steadily trending over 
the last few months and appears throughout company 
documents, broker reports, expert calls, and news.

From the 500,000+ documents in the 
platform, six major themes emerged
 Generative AI
 Increased regulatory scrutiny
 Open banking
 Fintech competition and integration
 Digitalization
 Attrition and talent shortage
In the following sections, we dig deeper into these six 
trends, including what industry incumbents should currently 
be aware of and what to expect for the future.
Generative AI
With an unprecedented volume of data now available, 
it’s common for financial professionals to waste hours on 
manual, fruitless research, only to come up empty-handed. 
To address this inefficiency, the financial services industry 
has widely adopted and implemented AI into various 
workflows and processes—with powerful results. 

Investment Banking Trends and Outlook for 2023