{"id":1026265,"date":"2026-08-05T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026265"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:04:06","slug":"cross-border-ma-likely-to-stay-strong-in-h2-2026-ai-energy-key-drivers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/cross-border-ma-likely-to-stay-strong-in-h2-2026-ai-energy-key-drivers-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-border M&amp;A likely to stay strong in H2 2026; AI, energy key drivers: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-border M&amp;A activity is likely to remain strong in H2 2026, with technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI), energy and supply-chain security emerging as key drivers, as per a report by JPMorgan. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, cross-border deal activity surged 63% YoY to USD 820 billion in H1 2026, accounting for 26% of total M&amp;A volume. The activity was concentrated in larger deals, with 17 of the 48 mega-deals being cross-border and contributing 37% of total cross-border volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-border M&amp;A activity is likely to remain strong in H2 2026, with technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI), energy and supply-chain security emerging as key drivers, as per a report by JPMorgan. According to the report, cross-border deal activity surged 63% YoY to USD 820 billion in H1 2026, accounting for 26% of total M&amp;A volume. The activity was concentrated in larger deals, with 17 of the 48 mega-deals being cross-border and contributing 37% of total cross-border volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026292,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026265\/revisions\/1026292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}