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This sector contains all our financial derivatives jobs, including derivatives jobs for graduates and trainees. This includes derivative sales roles, derivatives analyst jobs, derivatives structuring roles, credit derivatives jobs, equity derivates jobs, derivatives trading roles, programming roles and other derivatives jobs in London and across the world.
Financial derivatives are effectively contracts between two parties. These contracts state that the value of the derivative in question will be determined by changes to other variables. These variables can be either financial products like equities and bonds, physical products like commodities, or other things - like the weather or the longevity of a population.
Derivatives are frequently used as an insurance policy and hedge against risk. For example, Credit Default Swaps (CDS) specify that in the event of a loan defaulting, the holder of the CDS will receive compensation.
The earliest forms of derivative were futures contracts. These were devised in order that purchasers of materials could have some control over the future price. For example, farmers selling wheat would enter into a contract with wheat buyers to arrange that in three months' time they would be able to sell wheat at a pre-determined price, thereby insulating themselves against the risk of a collapse in the wheat price during the intervening time period.
Other simple forms of derivative products you may manage in a derivatives career include swaps and options.
Swaps allow for the simple exchange of one type of product with another. Some of the most popular are currency swaps, in which loans and-or the interest payments on those loans are swapped from one currency into another.
Options are contracts which allow one party to buy or sell assets to another party at a specific price at some point in the future. Unlike futures contracts, there is noobligation to invoke an options contract (it's optional) - a buyer has the right to buy three tonnes of wheat at price X if it makes financial sense, but is not obliged to do so if it doesn't. Holders of options must pay a premium for this privilege.
Options which confer the right to buy something are 'call options'. Options which confer the right to sell are, 'put options.'
Simple derivatives are traded on exchanges. More complex derivatives have traditionally been traded over the counter (OTC), between the two parties involved in the contract. However, this is changing as governments seek to make the derivatives market more transparent.
In the run up to the 2008 financial crisis, derivative products became increasingly complex and increasingly prolific with products such as collateralised debt obligations and synthetic derivatives (derivatives based upon derivatives) proliferating. Many people blame derivative professionals, products, and their falsely conveyed impression that risk was no longer an issue, for the crisis occurring.
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| Business Analyst - Project Manager - Operations Change - Equity Derivatives - London | Alexander Ash Consulting AVP - VP | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client, a leading Tier 1 Global Investment Bank requires Business Analysts and Project Managers at AVP and...
| fixed income rates derivatives IT | Harvey Nash plc £500 - £700 per day + n/a | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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| Project Manager - Sub Ledger Implementation - Investment Banking | Alexander Ash Consulting £80,000 - £120,000 | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Project Manager to lead a large scale sub ledger implementation at a top tier investment bank within a large s...
| Structured Product Sales to Private Banks – London | Rostron Search Excellent | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client is an expanding name, and is currently looking to add to it's ambitious multi asset structured prod...
| Pan-EMEA Structured Notes/Fixed Income Sales – London - £Excellent | Rostron Search Excellent | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client, an international name, is looking to add an individual to their sales and distribution team in Lon...
| EMEA Fixed Income/Bond Sales – London - £Excellent | Rostron Search Excellent | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client, an investment bank, is looking to bolster is London platform by adding a proven fixed income sales...
| French institutional sales profile – London - £Excellent | Rostron Search Excellent | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client, a progressive name, is looking to add a proven and determined individual to its growing fixed inco...
| Securities: Equities, Equities Structuring, Analyst/Associate | Goldman Sachs Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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The Equities Structuring and Marketing team covers UK institutions and global hedge funds.
| FX Salesperson to UK (Very Urgent) | City Wharf Financial Recruitment £80,000 -£150,000 + Excellent Bonus + Be... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Global investment bank, is actively seeking a very experienced FX Sales person with at least 5-8 years experie...
| Senior Investment Banking/Brokerage SALES | City Wharf Financial Recruitment Highly Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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We currently have a number of mandates with London based investment banks and brokers who are actively seeking...
| Senior Equity Derivative Flow Sales | City Wharf Financial Recruitment £70,000 + £125,000 + Excellent comm. pay... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Well established global brokerage house is actively looking to recruit several senior equity derivatives flow ...
| Compliance & Operations Manager | Barclay Simpson £market rate + bonus + bens | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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A US proprietary trader with a focus on equites, bonds and related derivatives is looking for a senior profess...
| Equity Derivative Sales | Sunrise Brokers Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Sunrise Brokers is looking for a Senior Equity Derivatives Sales Trader to join their equity derivatives sales...
| OTC Derivatives Risk Management Pre-Sales Consultant | CityExec £75-85K + bonus | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Our client, a leading derivatives risk management software services provider, is looking to recruit an OTC der...
| Business Analyst - Equity Derivatives | Synechron Inc Market | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Synechron, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst with Equities Derivatives experience for a global team within th...
| Equity Derivatives Strategist | Sunrise Brokers LLP Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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As Senior Equity Derivatives Strategist, you will be responsible for maintaining several publications based on...
| C++/Java (Quantitative) Developer - Non-Finance background – US Investment Bank | Westbourne Partners up to 100k basic salary + PnL Related bo... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Expert 'Out of Industry' Programmers required to join a US Investment Banking Quant Development Group. Candida...
| Start Up - Quantitative Risk Analyst | Huxley Associates £90000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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A growing start up is looking for a Quantitative Analyst to lay the foundation and develop a range of performa...
| Business Development Director | CRISIL Global Research & Analytics Competetive Basic & Commission Structure... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Seeking Business Development Director who can execute full business development cycle for new strategic UK and...
| ABS Sales - Germany / France / Italy / Spain / Scandi | Paul Mandel Recruitment Attractive Financial Package | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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We are looking for high quality Senior ABS Sales dedicated to European institutional clients (more urgently Fr...
| Listed Futures & Options Sales | Paul Mandel Recruitment above market rate | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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My clients are looking to build there F&O sales desks with senior sales/brokers globally (NY, London, Paris, Z...
| Graduate Trainee Futures Trader | FUTEX Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Futex is the leading Proprietary Trading House in the UK with 75 traders in offices in London and Surrey. We ...
| C# .Net Front Office Desk Developer- Derivatives Technology - London | Selby Jennings Technology Circa £60,000-£70,000+ bonus and benefit... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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(C#.Net, Winforms, WCF, DevExpress, SQL, Excel/VBA, Derivatives) Circa £60,000-£70,000+ bonus and benefits.
| VP level, G10 FX options trader, Vanilla Currency Option Trader, Senior Trader – Forex options, London | GQR Global Markets Highly competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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A top tier investment bank is looking to hire a trader to join their FX options team in London.
| VP - Director level, Equity Derivative Single Stock trader, stock derivative trader, vol single stock trader, volatility flow trader, European equity derivative trader | GQR Global Markets Highly competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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A top tier investment bank is looking to hire a single stock trader at VP level to continue to grow their equi...
| Interest Rates CVA Front Office Pricing Quant – Front Office Rates Credit Value Adjustment Quant Analytics FICC Team | GQR Global Markets Up to £110,000 base (DOE) + competitive... | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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A leading front office Quant Analytics group is proactively seeking an Interest Rates Credit Value Adjustment ...
| Senior Java Software Engineer | Future In Finance 65000 | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Java Software Engineer financial markets in Hong Kong. Trading house core software development. High frequency...
| Single Stocks Broker - United Kingdom | Selby Jennings Equity Highly Competitive | UK-London | 16 May 12 |
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Broking, Equity, Derivatives, Single Stock Options, Pan-European Coverage, London, United Kingdom, Europe, Hig...
| Commodities Derivatives Programmer | Citi not disclosed | UK | 15 May 12 |
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| Business Analyst, IT, OTC Derivatives, Risk Management, Investment Bank, London | Corcoran Lock Global Banking £550-600/day | UK-London | 15 May 12 |
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Technical BA to capture and deliver requirements for the design and development of a new risk management capab...
