
Global M&A industry trends: 2025 outlook
M&A in 2025: Big deals, winning hands, and wild cards. Megadeal momentum returns to the market—but dealmakers will need to expect the unexpected.
Regulatory reform, more stringent capital requirements, risk management considerations, disruptive technologies, a low interest rate environment, and enhanced reporting requirements were all challenges to growth in banking and capital markets, even before COVID-19 entered the picture. Sophisticated strategies and solutions will be required for financial institutions to navigate the pandemic and gain a competitive edge. PwC professionals assist many of today's largest banks and securities firms with their most challenging issues in every segment of the financial industry: consumer/retail banking, commercial banking, wholesale banking, mortgage banking, securitisation, capital markets, insurance, investment management, broker/dealer and real estate.
M&A in 2025: Big deals, winning hands, and wild cards. Megadeal momentum returns to the market—but dealmakers will need to expect the unexpected.
Cautious optimism for an uptick in financial services M&A activity in 2025 as megadeals return and deal values rise.
In 2025, banking and capital markets companies must be bold, work to fix regulatory deficiencies, and leverage data and GenAI.
The M&A show must go on. Save the date! M&A activity will bounce back—it’s just a matter of when, and how dealmakers can prepare.
Explore the role of clean hydrogen in decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors as well as barriers to clean hydrogen development and adoption.
Electric transmission infrastructure that is strategically flexible enables the achievement of environmental goals and better returns.
Accelerating progress in Asia-Pacific’s energy transition presents an enormous opportunity to marshal the powerful combined forces of public and private capital.
The M&A starting bell has rung. Are you ready? Successful dealmakers should look forward, not back, as we enter a new phase of dealmaking in 2024.