{"id":612141,"date":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:54:11","slug":"investment-banking-graduate-numbers-climb-as-ai-usage-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612141\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment banking graduate numbers climb as AI usage surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence was expected to wipe out the army of junior investment bankers grinding through spreadsheets and pitch books. Instead, it\u2019s raising the bar for how much they are expected to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>Across the industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/ai-investment-bankers-show-the-threat-to-your-business-model-20251030-p5n6o4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysts are increasingly using internal AI tools<\/a> to sift data, accelerate research and draft analysis. The technology is allowing banks to push productivity higher, even as the long hours that define the job remain.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence was expected to wipe out the army of junior investment bankers grinding through spreadsheets and pitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-612141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}