{"id":978381,"date":"2025-12-04T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978381"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:50:21","slug":"ai-investment-ma-poised-to-increase-corporate-financing-needs-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/ai-investment-ma-poised-to-increase-corporate-financing-needs-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"AI investment, M&amp;A poised to increase corporate financing needs next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech companies&#8217; investments in artificial intelligence and busier M&amp;A activity will raise the volume of debt issuance by investment-grade companies next year, bank executives said on Wednesday during a panel at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. <\/p>\n<p>The funding needs of the top five U.S. technology firms could reach almost $100 billion in 2026, Meghan Graper, global head of debt capital markets at Barclays, said. Big tech firms are turning aggressively to debt markets in their race to build AI-ready data centers, a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on cash to fund investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech companies&#8217; investments in artificial intelligence and busier M&amp;A activity will raise the volume of debt issuance by investment-grade companies next year, bank executives said on Wednesday during a panel at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. The funding needs of the top five U.S. technology firms could reach almost $100 billion in 2026, Meghan Graper, global head of debt capital markets at Barclays, said. Big tech firms are turning aggressively to debt markets in their race to build AI-ready data centers, a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on cash to fund investments.<\/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-978381","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\/978381","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=978381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}