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The 2025 State of AI for Business and Finance

Over the past few years, generative AI has gone from hypothetical to reality. In 2025, a year marked by hype and hesitation, the teams seeing the biggest gains aren’t chasing shiny tools — they are quietly transforming how work gets done. According to The 2025 State of AI for Business and Finance, organizations adopting workflow-integrated, expert-driven AI are seeing measurable gains in efficiency and insight generation. By embedding AI into real workflows, they’re unlocking new levels of productivity, sharper insights, and faster decisions.

The 2025 State of AI for Business and Finance highlights:

  • How genAI use is extending beyond efficiency, supporting more informed analysis and timely decision-making
  • The biggest challenges organizations face when integrating AI into strategic workflows
  • The road ahead for AI adoption and integration, and more on what’s next, including the build vs. buy debate

Featuring the perspectives of 300 professionals, mostly decision-makers on genAI usage in their firms, this report offers an up-to-date view on how AI is driving both opportunity and disruption across areas like consulting, corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, asset management, and investment banking.

Download The 2025 State of AI for Business and Finance to get a clear view of how AI-driven intelligence is transforming productivity, insight, and competitive advantage.

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A Tale of Two Economies: Divergences Shaping Financial Services in H2 2026

In this report, we explore key expert and analyst perspectives on the relevant themes shaping the financial services landscape for H2, including scaled AI infrastructure, diversification and asset re-positioning, a deepening K-shaped economy bearing resemblance to the ’70s, and a wave of IPO and deal activity prevailing despite macroeconomic headwinds.
Title slide for "A Tale of Two Economies: Divergences Shaping Financial Services in H2 2026" by Barb Tague, featuring an illustration of a signpost and a bar chart.

Global Oil and Gas Market: Iran War Fallout and Future Outlook

Drawing on broker research, industry tracking data, and expert analysis available in the AlphaSense platform, this report covers how governments, corporations, and investors are adapting amid uncertainty.
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