Against the backdrop of a challenging geopolitical landscape, I'd venture to say that the global economy and markets have never been more complicated and more fractured.

So how are companies and institutional investors preparing for the road ahead.

It's always been the case that in every market environment that the three of us have lived through,

there have been real and consequential and important risks,

and that's certainly true now.

What I think is slightly different to me about this

moment it feels like people are having a harder time balancing a recognition of

these risks with an optimism and a likelihood not not just a potential, a likelihood that we will

navigate these things and navigate them well and end up in a better outcome.

I'm Allison Nathan and this is Goldman Sachs exchanges.

For this special episode, I'm sitting down with the co-heads of Goldman Sachs's Global Banking and Markets

business, Jim S. Pizido, Dan Deese, and Ashok, Faraday.

We'll be discussing their views on the markets, corporate and investor sentiment,

at the outlook for deal-making.

And we'll also get some thoughts about the direction of the industry,

as well as some leadership and career advice from these GS lifers.

Jim Dan and Ashok, welcome to the program.

Thanks for having us.

Let me just start by saying, it's pretty rare to get all three of you around the program. Thanks for having us. Let me just start by saying it's pretty rare to get all three of you around the table for a conversation

like this.

So I'm looking forward to it and we have a lot of ground to cover.

So let's get started.

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