100+

Applications sent

My story starts in West London from a working class, state school background. A school described by the Daily Mail as a ‘criminal factory’.

I wanted to change my life, and like a lot of people across the UK, I saw a career in the City as my ticket.

So I worked hard and got into LSE to study Philosophy & Economics. But the hard part was just beginning.

100+ investment bank applications sent, and after dozens of rejections, I got 4 spring week offers across IBD and Sales & Trading. I completed a summer internship in Global Markets at Deutsche Bank and voilà – I was now a real life investment banker.

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Years of investment banking experience

I joined the DB Quantitative Investment Solutions desk in London as a Structurer, developing and marketing innovative systematic trading strategies to global institutional clients. From fundamental stock analysis to structuring complex multi-asset trades, I became experienced across a broad asset spectrum.

As I grew in seniority, I led interviews for spring and summer internship applications and more recently, assessed dozens of 1st-round video interviews.

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Reason why I started Break into Banking

So why did I start Break into Banking?

A lot of good work has been done to expand access to investment banking.

But, I felt that more should be done by people with 5+ years of industry experience – enough time on the inside to really understand how the industry works, and to have had experience on the other side of the interview table.

I wanted to give young people, no matter their background, the knowledge and the tools that I wish I had to break into banking.