In this post I will discuss with you the current and future state of all main global markets roles. The headcount for trading roles has declined steeply since the financial crisis.

For those who are considering a career in sales, I’ve decided to outline what a typical day is like for a junior on a busy sales desk. My first front office role was as a junior salesperson, supporting an EMEA energy sales team covering oil and gas derivatives.

In the 1980s and 90s many people started their careers in banking in the back office and worked themselves up the ladder to eventually become high-profile traders or sales people. However, nowadays it has become increasingly difficult to move up the ranks within an investment bank.

I believe that every skill and profession can be learned by anyone. Nonetheless, some people are more prone to do certain jobs than others. In this post I would like to discuss seven signs that your personality might have that fit good for a trading career.

In the next few weeks we are going to post a lot of interesting content on working in the Wharf, starting off with a Managing Director who has been working as a trader for a bulge bracket investment bank for more than 10 years.

You finally managed to get an impressive summer internship at one of the top names in the city? You can be proud of yourself for a moment but the biggest challenge is yet to come.

You secured a job on a bond desk but you aren’t 100% sure what awaits you? In this post I will share the key aspects of working on such desk. For the sake of simplicity I will talk about working on a bond desk specifically as opposed to fixed income in general as that includes interest rate swaps and other derivatives.

We had a conversation with an emerging markets trading Managing Director.

During my time as a student I easily sat 25+ interviews for sales & trading internships and I have, myself, interviewed numerous candidates for sales & trading internships and graduate programs during my time 'in the army'.

I remember when I started working full time in banking and witnessed for the first time how bankers actually look at CVs of potential interns and graduates. At the time, I was a graduate trainee on the corporate bond trading desk at a major UK bank and I was only a few months in.

Marks of a Good Equity Research Analyst Alpha | noun | \ˈal-fə\ | the difference between an investment’s actual return and its benchmark return. I was fortunate to immediately work on the buy-side when I landed a job in equity research for a fund after finishing my undergraduate degree in economics.

Equity research is a front-office division of investment banks that is often overlooked by people interested in pursuing a career in investment banking.

I've been researching and thinking a lot about ESG's impact in finance and wanted to share a few arguments regarding how trading and asset management might evolve based on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) trends and new policies such as Zero Carbon targets which introduce new dynamics to the business world and financial markets.

Among professional investment managers, risk is defined, primarily, as a return that is either higher or lower than expected. A better-than-expected return is a risk?

Equity research is the process of analyzing the business and financial performance of companies to make investment recommendations or investment decisions. The main institutions that conduct serious equity research are investment banks (sell-side) and investment firms (asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, etc).

In this post I would like to share some automation and AI examples I have either directly coded/used or seen employed in my financial work environment (Hedge Funds & Banks).

That's how much my trading portfolio plummeted on March 16th, 2020, the day that changed me in some ways forever. It was a day that didn’t start well.

Bonds are a useful tool for companies to raise money or refinance some existing debt. A bond has three main components.

In the realm of sales & trading careers (AKA Global Markets), the trajectory can often be as complex and multidimensional as the financial instruments a firm might trade. A conversation with a professional golfer turned trader at a BB reveals why he chose the dynamic world of global markets.

Wesley, our latest guest on the pod, shares his non-traditional journey, changing from equity research to founding a tech startup in healthcare. His story underlines the significance of choosing one's career wisely, not be afraid of change, perseverance and transferable skills from banking.