Careers in Quantitative Finance 2025/26

We will be hosting a number of presentations from prestigious companies in industry, throughout the year. This should give you an insight into working in industry and what careers are available to you. Details of this year's speakers will be updated when they are confirmed, and previous speakers can be found by clicking on the links in the menu.

Unless otherwise stated, the Careers in Quantitative Finance Seminar starts at 15:30 in L3.

Tuesday 7th October 2025, 12:30 - Deutsche Bank

"Hear from business representatives at Deutsche Bank who will share insights into their day to day, the Quant structure and give advice on pursuing a career in Quants."

Roel Oomen – Head of QRD Lab for sales and trading

Arnav Kotwal – Quant Analyst

Wednesday 15th October 2025 - Barclays

"Please join us for a presentation from representatives across all of Barclays’ quantitative finance teams, where we will discuss algorithmic trading, risk and markets quantitative research, where each team sits within the bank and what a quant does on daily basis. 

We will be discussing open opportunities in the team for off-cycle and summer internships in Quantitative Research, talking you through the application process as well as some research topics previous interns have undertaken with us."

Timothy Brooks – Quantitative Researcher, FX eTrading 

Cathy Xu – Quantitative Researcher, FX eTrading  

Prabhat Vyas - Quantitative Researcher, Equities algorithmic execution

Li Zhou – Quantitative Analyst, Counterparty Credit Risk

Daniel Lowry – Quantitative Developer, Cross Markets

John Taylor – Quantitative Analyst, X-Value Adjustment

Wednesday 22nd October 2025 - Qube Research & Technologies

Thursday 23rd October 2025, 12:00, L1 - JP Morgan

Ben Wood - EMEA Head of the QR Equity Derivatives and Systematic Trading 

Amira Akkari - EMEA Head of the QR Equity Derivatives 

Hannah Maidment - Commodities Automated Trading Strategies  

Yiwen Xia - Rates Automated Trading Strategies

Wednesday 29th October 2025 - NatWest Markets

Wednesday 5th November - TBC

Wednesday 12th November - Nomura

Wednesday 19th November - HSBC

Wednesday 26th November - TBC

Wednesday 3rd December - TBC