What this career involves
- What professionals do
- Help clients buy, sell and hedge currencies and interest-rate exposure, and make prices in those markets.
- Skills that help
- Derivatives basics: forwards, swaps, options
- Macro awareness
- Probability and quick math
- Composure under pressure
- Typical routes in
- Sales and trading internships at banks are the usual door, and corporate treasury roles use the same ideas to manage a company's currency risk.
Who this fits
Students looking at sales and trading, macro research, or a corporate treasury career that handles currency risk.
A learning sequence
- Read the headline figures from the global FX survey and write down daily turnover in your own words.
- Track one overnight rate for two weeks and note what moves it.
- Work through an exchange education module on futures before you read about options.
The resources
BIS 2025 FX market survey (final 2026)
Understand institutional FX turnover and derivatives markets.
CME Group education center
Study interest rate, FX and commodities futures.
FX Global Code
Read wholesale FX execution principles and ethics.
New York Fed markets data dashboard
Track SOFR, repo and market operations.
CFTC Commitments of Traders and swaps data
Explore public aggregated futures positioning by trader type.
New York Fed Markets API
Build rates and market data projects with APIs.
ECB rates and yield curve data
Explore EUR rates and euro-zone curves.
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