JPMorgan Is Hiring Across Europe With Investor Confidence Rising

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is looking to add dealmakers in Europe, as the lender predicts a bumper year for M&A in 2026.

“We’re hiring in every country, pretty much across the region,” JPMorgan’s co-head of global banking, Filippo Gori said in an interview last week in Milan, alongside Dorothee Blessing, global head of investment banking coverage. The bank has “capital to deploy, it’s just a question of where best to deploy it.”

In meetings across Europe in the first weeks of the year, clients have struck a bullish note, the executives said. Investors in Southern Europe are particularly confident, ...