by meridith dennes | Aug 7, 2026 | Compensation Trends, Lateral Recruiting
What Investment Bankers Can Actually Expect to Earn in 2026 | Prospect Rock Partners Record bank earnings and the biggest bonus upgrade in years tell one story. A wave of headcount cuts and a boutique that just posted a 91% net income drop in a boom quarter tell... 
by meridith dennes | May 19, 2026 | Compensation Trends, News, Summer Internships
Why AI will make investment bankers more efficient — not redundant — and what that means for how they get paid Introduction: A Philosophy Built in the MIT AI Lab Dave Blundin is a serial entrepreneur, MIT-trained artificial intelligence pioneer, and the Founder and... 
by meridith dennes | Apr 21, 2026 | Compensation Trends, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting
Every year, M&A bankers at every level — analysts, associates, VPs, Directors, MDs — find out their number, see it is smaller than they expected, and spend the next forty-eight hours refreshing the anonymous banking forums, texting a peer at a competitor for... by meridith dennes | Mar 14, 2026 | Compensation Reports, Compensation Trends
Prospect Rock Partners Restricted Access 🔒 Annual Publication 2025 IB CompensationReport March 2026 Confidential 866Respondents 17Title Levels 2025Data Year Survey Participant Access Your access code was emailed to survey participants. Check your inbox for a message... 
by meridith dennes | Mar 14, 2026 | Compensation Reports, Compensation Trends
After bottoming out in 2023, investment banking pay has staged a two-year rally — and the 2025 data makes clear that the recovery is real, broad-based, and steepest at the top. Based on 866 survey responses collected in Q1 2026 across 17 title levels and 8 bank types,... 
by meridith dennes | Feb 10, 2026 | Compensation Trends, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting
Sign-on bonuses, guaranteed compensation packages, relocation stipends, deferred payouts — these are the building blocks of investment banking recruitment and retention. They’re also squarely in the crosshairs of new legislation in California and New York...