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10.10.2025
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In The Edge, you will find…
Top Finance & Market News
Recruitment Strategy Breakdown
Community & Platform Updates
…to help you level up YOUR prep 🚀
Industry Headlines 📣
Name Drop These Updates in Your Next Coffee Chat…
U.S. bank M&A hits four-year high in Q3 with 52 deals announced and over $16B in aggregate value. (Good luck scheduling those analyst coffee chats)
OpenAI announced a $6B+ chip partnership with AMD, driving spike in tech indices yet analysts caution balancing portfolios before the AI trade overheats
Pfizer climbs 5% after strong earnings and AI-enabled R&D update, underscoring healthcare’s digital pivot to automated workflows
Follow our weekly updated podcast playlist for a deeper dive into market news and industry trends 🎧
Macroevents & world news
Keep tabs on the Fed 👀
Soundbites on deal flow & trends
Recruitment Breakdown ✏️
Summer Analysts 2027: No additional updates this week, but reminder to submit The Raine Group application ahead of October 17th deadline.
Pro tip: Update your Handshake account and look out for on-campus coffee chat sign-ups. Spots fill up quick so set notifications for all firms on your radar to snag spots before they’re gone!
Stay vigilant for diversity forums and early insight program drops, and communicate with networking contacts to learn release dates.
For highest success rate — it’s crucial to drop your application within the first few days.
Community Spotlight 🔎
We’re proud to announce a new partnership this week with Colorado College. ⚡ Want to connect your campus club with Pretus? Let us know below!
We look forward to highlighting student wins, internship anecdotes, and quotable tips from across the Pretus network. Stay tuned — or reach out if you’d like to be featured.
Send in your shoutout 👇
Question of the Week❓
Each week we’ll tackle one big recruiting or finance question from the Pretus community. Have a question you’d like answered? Send it our way and we’ll feature it.
Question Drop Box 👇
Focus on honing your networking questions & notes to pinpoint answering “Why X firm?” responses by collecting analyst anecdotes referencing why they chose their firm when recruiting or reason they find a will to live.
On of the top 3 MUST know accounting questions you’ll be sure to see.
Platform PowerUps 💫
Interviewers are looking for the candidate that’s calm, cool and collected. Start your interviews off strong by confidently answering key behaviorals through mock practice reps. Level up by customizing your interview with Pretus’s advanced platform features.
Run into a roadblock? Have a question about the platform? Make sure to Ask Simar, your personal chatbot at your service to clarify any queries.
