If you’re looking for confirmation that 2020 has been an exceptional year for some people in the front office of major investment banks, strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Co, has just provided it. However, if you’re hoping that this excellent year will […]
Cela va sembler sexiste, mais j’assiste à beaucoup de conférences et cela me désole toujours de voir des stands remplis de femmes attirantes dont le principal but semble d’attirer l’attention du sexe opposé à des fins marketing. C’est encore plus […]
It’s long been a cliché that if you look around the trading floor of an investment bank, you’ll see a lot more men than women – in trading roles, at least. However, if you look at the compliance function that polices […]
Certains des meilleurs jobs dans le trading actuel sont pour les traders systématiques travaillant avec des hedge funds quantitatifs. Ce sont des traders qui conçoivent des stratégies de trading en utilisant des modèles informatiques, qui tradent automatiquement. C’est un travail qui […]
To work as a trader today you need a wide range of skills. You still have to be numerate, cool under pressure, and have an excellent memory. But this is no longer enough. Increasingly, traders have to be able to […]
It’s August, and in any normal year that would mean one thing: analysts. – This is the time of year when the graduate trainees arrive in investment banks. Needless to say, 2020 is a little different. The analysts have turned up, but […]
If you thought the 108% year-on-year increase in U.S. investment banks’ fixed income currency and commodity (FICC) trading revenues in the second quarter was something special, you’re far too easily impressed. 108% is nothing. Just ask people in Virtu’s electronic market making business: they […]
Je suis trader dérivés actions pour une grande banque d’investissement depuis plus de 20 ans. De tout le temps passé à ce poste, les deux derniers mois ont été les meilleurs, et de très loin. Pour la première fois de […]
Now that first quarter results for European and U.S. banks are in, it’s apparent that the volatility in the first quarter led to exceptional profits for some U.S. banks’ equities trading businesses, driven by volatility trading in their domestic franchises. However, European banks could not […]
All that was promised is true, and more. After disclosing already that its income more doubled in the first quarter of 2020, Virtu Financial revealed today that its revenues actually rose 177% year-on-year to over $1bn, and that net income turned from a $13m […]
