Sales And Trading Interview Questions & Resources

By certain measures - like total asset size - HSBC is one of the largest banks in the world. But traditionally HSBC hasn't placed an overly large s...

One of the best aspects of sales and trading is that it's always evolving. New desks are being created, new clients are being served, and new oppor...

Traditionally, every large investment bank has had three primary front-office divisions: investment banking, equity research, and sales and trading...

Prior to the Great Financial Crisis, Deutsche Bank had one of the leading sales and trading platforms globally. Not only were they the largest plat...

One of the questions I'm most frequently asked about are the kinds of books that folks should be reading if they're interested in sales and trading...

When it comes to sales and trading interviews, there's a wide diversity of potential questions you can get. However, you can rest assured that you ...

Throughout 2020 and 2021 the incredibly long hours worked by those in investment banking has been widely discussed in the financial press. And chan...

Part of the reason for creating this site is that while there's lots of solid information online about investment banking generally, there's much l...

For those not yet in the sales and trading industry, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about the salary and bonus structure. Some are u...

As I wrote about in the rather long sales and trading overview post, FX is one of the more interesting areas of a trading floor to be on. In partic...

One thing I've said many times is that within sales and trading, balance sheet is king. Because of the enhanced regulation post great financial cri...

The trading floors of major sell-side investment banks are laid out into distinct divisions. These divisions are then broken down into desks and th...