Barclays to Goldman See Dealmaking Rebound: Future of Finance

Barclays Plc expects dealmaking to rebound in the first half of next year, the head of the lender’s German operations said, joining her counterpart at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in painting a positive picture for the industry.

Ingrid Hengster, chief executive officer for Germany at Barclays, told Bloomberg’s Future of Finance conference in Frankfurt that she was “quite bullish” about mergers and acquisitions. Interest rates are peaking and there’s now more confidence in the leveraged finance markets, she said at the event on Tuesday.