High energy. The thrill of the deal. Big decisions. Early mornings. Immediate rewards. A career in Sales & Trading isnt for the faint-hearted. But for those who can balance risk-taking with sound judgment, theres nothing quite like it.

Put yourself in the center of the global markets

J.P. Morgan is one of the worlds largest trading firms, renowned globally for our breadth of services and unparalleled expertise. Our teams create markets in virtually all major asset classes. We engineer sophisticated financial solutions to help clients manage risk, increase returns and solve complex financial problems. Globally, we hold leadership positions across the equity and fixed-income product spectrum and have major hubs in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Sales & Trading is the collective name we give to our Americas Sales & Marketing, Commodities, Credit, Emerging Markets, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Public Finance, Rates and Securitized Products groups.

The breadth of our global product platform is a powerful business generator. Satisfying client needs is our foremost concern, and by assembling expert teams using a cross-sectional approach, rather than just by departmental or product categories, our clients get better service and better results. This approach also means that youll get to enjoy a more challenging and interesting range of business issues. We take part in a steady stream of IPOs and secondary offerings, and attract a constant flow of trading assignments. And we are a leading innovator in the derivatives markets, structuring derivatives to solve clients complex and often unique financial problems. In addition, our teams in Sales & Trading work closely with our award-winning Research teams to provide our leading client franchise with integrated, tailored products and efficient execution.

We are constantly looking for ways to stay ahead. Thanks to our award-winning products and cutting-edge technology, our people have the support they need to do their jobs. Thanks to our commitment to meritocracy when promoting our people, the speed of your progress will be largely up to you.

Business groups

Our Sales & Trading business is split into nine interrelated groups:

For Americas Sales & Marketing, developing and maintaining strong client relationships is core to what they do and is a key component of their success. The Americas Sales & Marketing structure creates an integrated framework to provide clients with more holistic coverage and better access to the full suite of the firms products and services.

The markets sales teams are well known and respected by their clients allowing them to build on their reputation by consolidating management across products.

The Commodities group is responsible for selling, trading and structuring commodity financial products to institutional, corporate clients around the world. Products include Energy, Metals and Agricultural.

J.P. Morgan is a premier market maker in credit derivatives, corporate bonds, secondary loans, and corporate debt obligations. Credit Trading is a leader in the market in terms of volume traded, issuers traded, and investor relationships while providing liquidity to clients such as banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, and hedge funds. Traders, salespeople, and research analysts work as a team to provide liquidity in High Grade Bonds/CDS, High Yield Bonds/CDS, Loans/LCDS, Distressed Debt, Preferred Stock, Trade Claims, Credit Default Indices, Short-term Fixed Income, Private Placements, Structured Products, and Flow Exotics.

Global Credit Syndicate works in partnership with Investment Banking teams, Capital Markets, and Credit Trading to combine superior debt origination and structuring expertise with exceptional distribution and trading capabilities to a large investor base.

Emerging Markets

The rate of growth in emerging markets requires us to effectively coordinate our products across the world to meet our clients needs. Already a leader in emerging markets debt, research and trading, were now investing heavily to build our capabilities in local markets.

Equities are essentially shares or certificates that represent a part ownership of an organization. Equity markets provide companies with a chance to raise capital. The Equities group executes trades, markets research ideas and provides trading ideas and market color to clients, while offering worldwide execution capabilities across all exchanges and electronic networks.

Foreign Exchange

The Foreign Exchange (FX) group is responsible for the sale, trading and corporate derivative marketing of FX products such as Currencies and FX Options. We are one of the largest providers of liquidity to the currency markets worldwide. The currency markets trade 24 hours a day and are the largest in dollar volume across markets.

Public Finance

Public Finance is responsible for creating solutions for the complex financing needs of the firms public sector clients, including state and local governments, non-profit institutions and certain corporations that issue debt in the tax-exempt capital markets. Public Finance is a dynamic and multifaceted group that includes a number of teams: underwriting/syndicate, secondary trading, sales, capital markets, banking, research and credit portfolio.

The Rates group is largely concerned with government debt and interest rates driven by macroeconomic factors such as growth, inflation, monetary policy and government fiscal policies. These are the largest, most global and actively traded markets. The group makes markets, provides risk management solutions and arranges financing to support corporations, financial institutions and governments.

Securitized Products

The Securitized Product Group originates, underwrites, securitizes and trades Asset Backed Securities and conducts principal investing activities related to consumer debt, domestic municipalities tax liens and tax-oriented investments.

Placement

You can join us in one of several roles. While each role may have a different emphasis, they all offer unparalleled opportunities. Wherever your specific skills lie, youll thrive in one of the most exciting and intense working environments anywhere in this industry or, for that matter, anywhere else.

As an Analyst, you are typically placed into one of the following areas:

In Sales. you will help maintain relationships with institutional investors and match our services and products to their needs. You will work with Trading and Research teams to provide comprehensive client coverage, including fulfilling client requests for market updates, pricing, executing client orders and providing institutional clients with information about specific securities. You may also provide marketing ideas and help initiate transactions.

In Trading. you will help senior traders price securities and make markets in your groups particular range of products for institutional clients. You will assist the senior traders in managing risk, liquidity and exposure and you may support all aspects of the trading desk: pre-trade analysis, research on index constituent changes, inbound and outbound trade processing and the design of optimal strategies for large trades. Tracking supply and demand, you constantly evaluate market developments in order to give clients accurate product information.

In Structuring/Origination. you will work with a wide variety of clients across industries to structure and place asset-backed securities with a broad spectrum of investors and structure asset-backed commercial paper conduit facilities. Often, the Originations group is characterized as a hybrid between that of Corporate Finance and Sales & Trading.

In Strategy/Quantitative. you will help provide fundamental supply and demand information to the trading desks and sales team while also publishing that information in a formal manner to clients and prospective clients. You will have face-to-face interaction with sales, trading and clients, as well as information dissemination within other parts of the Investment Bank.

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