Sales, Trading and Quantitative Analysis
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What Is Sales, Trading and
Quantitative Analysis at Citi?
Sales & Trading
Our Institutional Clients Group provides Sales
and Trading services to clients around the world while conducting
proprietary trading for the Firm’s own accounts. Our sales force
provides a critical link between the Firm's customers and the
marketplace. These professionals identify client needs and convey
them to the Firm's trading, research, syndication and finance
experts. Traders work closely with the salespeople, who constantly
supply them with information on investors' activities, appetites
and interests. In trading, integration is key to successful
performance. The close collaboration of traders with salespeople
and professionals from other departments allows Citi to meet the
needs of our clients creatively.
Quantitative Analysis
The Markets Quantitative Analysis (MQA) and
Citi Investment Research Advisory (CIRA) departments play a vital
role in the Institutional Clients Group because of the information
they provide and the skills they possess. Our industry-leading
professionals are thought leaders on complex subjects such as
portfolio analysis, security selection, derivative modeling and
managing portfolio level risk. MQA builds tools and models that
assist traders and clients in pricing, hedging, and structuring of
securities, and provide critical information and advice for
managing risk across all market trading units. CIRA provides
research and analysis which is distributed both internally and to
our clients.
The integration of quantitative methods with
trading has taken on a greater significance as financial products
have become more sophisticated. The rise in prominence of
systematic or algorithmic trading has led to the development of
increasingly sophisticated trading techniques designed to identify
market inefficiencies in every asset class.
