IPO, refinancing, and mergers and acquisitions are steadily recovering, driving increased demand for investment banking talent

People’s Finance News, April 7—With the warming river in early spring, ducks first know it; investment bankers’ tide has already surged, and people are already here. At present, many securities firms have successively pulled back the curtain on campus recruitment for the Class of 2027. Clearly preparing investment banking roles for campus recruits is a major highlight. “The three major businesses—IPO, follow-on offerings, and mergers and acquisitions restructuring—have continued to pick up, directly driving growth in demand for talent in investment banking.” A person from an investment bank at a securities firm said this in an interview with a Securities Times reporter. According to research by the Securities Times reporter, currently, the deal-execution positions in securities firms’ investment banking lines are mainly filled by new hires from campus recruitment, while social recruitment targeting underwriting positions has not yet shown a clear rebound. Analysts say that in the past two years, investment banking businesses were in a downturn cycle, leading to significant attrition among frontline deal-execution personnel, and some underwriting personnel were also forced to shift from equity businesses to debt businesses. “Now, with policy support, investment banking projects are gradually recovering, and securities firms are also starting to proactively reexamine their talent reserves for both equity and debt investment banking.”