{"id":188644,"date":"2026-02-18T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/generative-ai-reduces-ma-costs-by-20-mckinsey-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:20:11","slug":"generative-ai-reduces-ma-costs-by-20-mckinsey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/generative-ai-reduces-ma-costs-by-20-mckinsey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI reduces M&#038;A costs by 20%, McKinsey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/generative-ai-reduces-merger-acquisition-costs-20percent-mckinsey\/812514\/\">Generative AI reduces M&#038;A costs by 20%, McKinsey says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/generative-ai-reduces-merger-acquisition-costs-20percent-mckinsey\/812514\/\">https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/generative-ai-reduces-merger-acquisition-costs-20percent-mckinsey\/812514\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 17:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cfodive.com\">www.cfodive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Generative AI and M&amp;A efficiency:<\/strong> Generative artificial intelligence has reduced merger-and-acquisition (M&amp;A) timelines by 10%-30% and costs by about 20%, according to McKinsey.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rapid identification of opportunities:<\/strong> The technology helps companies quickly identify M&amp;A opportunities influenced by factors like geopolitical shifts and regulatory changes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Growing AI adoption:<\/strong> Bain &amp; Company found that one in five surveyed companies used generative AI in 2025, with over half expecting to integrate it into their dealmaking by 2027.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s role in rising M&amp;A activity:<\/strong> PwC reported that over 20% of U.S. mega-deals in 2025, exceeding $5 billion, had an &#8220;AI theme,&#8221; driven by a focus on companies in the AI space.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Global M&amp;A growth:<\/strong> Global M&amp;A deal value grew to $4.7 trillion in 2025, up 43% year-over-year and 20% above the 10-year average, with large deals being particularly notable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI reduces M&#038;A costs by 20%, McKinsey says https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/generative-ai-reduces-merger-acquisition-costs-20percent-mckinsey\/812514\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-18 17:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/J9-R3IE4Wuwuarqntuh1S-PXbrBluP9TncZfjvDhxV0\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xNDgzMjcyNzg1X1d3bnZRelQuanBn.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-188644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188646,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188644\/revisions\/188646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}