“You can only be profitable if you are a player in scale” said Pinto. This is particularly the case in sales and trading, where the top five players have gained four percentage points between them since 2020. As market share consolidates in leading players, he said only leading players will be able to generate viable profits. In the long term, Pinto suggested that it will help to work for a large investment bank (ie. This year, he said things are normalizing and ECM and DCM (particularly DCM) are getting more of the action. Last year, Pinto noted that revenues skewed towards M&A.

It's not just the total number that's important, though, it's also the distribution of revenues between the business areas in the investment banking division ( M&A and equity and debt capital markets). In the medium term, he thinks the range will go from $80bn to $95bn. Pinto is predicting $80bn of investment banking revenues across the market next year. Will 2024 be any better? Yes, but not a lot.

Citing figures from banking intelligence firm Coalition, Pinto said today that this year's wallet for investment banking division revenues is likely to be around $70bn, down from the $78bn achieved last year (which was roughly in line with 2019) and down considerably from the peak of $133bn achieved in 2021. 'At the moment, there's too much uncertainty about inflation and valuations,' he declared.Īs we reported earlier this week, this year's investment banking fees are currently at a five-year low. Speaking today, Daniel Pinto, head of JPMorgan's investment bank and the bank's president and COO said it's all about one thing: certainty. What will it take for banking revenues and by proxy banking jobs to make a comeback?

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