"David Solomon is officially done playing defense. The Goldman Sachs CEO has steered the bank through several grueling years for the industry, including a multi-year drought in private equity spending and extreme trading volatility. But after a booming 2025, Solomon told investors at a UBS financial services conference on Tuesday that the firm is entering 2026 with the wind at its back."
""You have a massive deregulatory trend in the United States after a very tough regulatory period in the United States, across all industries,""
"For the past five years, he said, strategic buyers had encountered a "different regulatory regime," adding: "Whatever the question was, the answer was no.""
The banking industry moved from years of trading volatility and a private-equity spending drought into a strong 2025 that set positive momentum for 2026. A pronounced deregulatory trend across U.S. industries has softened prior constraints and shifted regulatory responses from outright refusals to more conditional openness. That regulatory change, combined with improved financial results and accelerating investment opportunities tied to artificial intelligence, is expected to revive strategic buyers’ acquisitive appetite. The resulting constructive environment for banks and investors points toward heightened merger-and-acquisition activity and renewed private equity deployment in 2026.
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