Barclays’s Hengster Sees 2024 Deals Rebound as Financing Returns

Mergers and acquisitions will pick up in the first half of next year as confidence returns to the leveraged finance market, according to Ingrid Hengster, Barclays Plc’s Chief Executive Officer for Germany.

“We see a real change and the first signals that the market is really picking up,” Hengster said during a panel discussion at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance conference in Frankfurt on Tuesday.

She said the bank is now having more conversations with both strategic and financial buyers around dealmaking as peaking interest rates help reduce volatility.

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