Funding Models

Bank & Institutional Trading Desks

45 firms match this criteria

Two different opportunity types on this page

These are employers, not retail programs. You are hired onto a desk and paid from firm P&L — there is no account to purchase and no evaluation fee.

0 firms sell retail funded-account programs · 45 firms are employer / firm-capital desks that hire traders. The Opportunity column below labels each firm.

Bank and institutional desks sit at the professional end of proprietary trading. Traders are employed, risk is managed centrally, and compensation comes as salary plus a share of desk P&L.

Entry is by hiring process, not purchase: quantitative screening, interviews, and often a background in markets, engineering, or mathematics. Capital is the firm's, and so is the infrastructure.

If you're comparing these against retail funded accounts, treat them as a different career path rather than a different price point.

How a firm qualifies

A firm qualifies when it runs at least one verified bank / institutional desk. Structured program data decides membership; firms with no structured programs fall back to their stated primary or secondary funding model.

Results use ProprietaryTrading.com's program and account-tier data where available, with firm-level data used as a fallback when appropriate. Firms with no stated value are excluded rather than counted as zero.

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Industry statistics

What this group looks like

Auto-computed from proprietarytrading.com's firm database

Most common platforms
Internal · Proprietary · Internal systems

Internal (20) · Proprietary (15) · Internal systems (3)

Firm
Barclays (Markets)
London, UK
4.1(21,124)
UBS Investment Bank
Zurich, Switzerland
4.1(1,799)
Audacity Capital
London, UK
3.5(1,065)
Cantor Fitzgerald (BGC Markets)
New York, NY
3.5(1)
D. E. Shaw & Co.
New York, USA
3.5(1)
Point72 Asset Management
Stamford, USA
3.3(2)
Macquarie Group (Commodities & Global Markets)
Sydney, Australia
2.7(8)
Standard Chartered Financial Markets
London
2.0(24)
JPMorgan Chase (Markets)
New York, USA
1.9(85)
Société Générale (Global Markets)
Paris, France
1.8(275)
Morgan Stanley (Institutional Securities)
New York, USA
1.6(122)
BNP Paribas (Global Markets)
Paris, France
1.5(55)
DBS Treasury & Markets
Singapore
1.5(185)
National Bank Financial Markets
Montreal, QC
1.5(184)
Goldman Sachs (Global Markets)
New York, USA
1.4(99)
HSBC (Global Banking & Markets)
London, UK
1.4(162)
Commerzbank (Corporate Clients)
Frankfurt
1.4(223)
CIBC Capital Markets
Toronto, ON
1.3(1,978)
Wells Fargo (Corporate & Investment Banking)
Charlotte, NC, USA
1.1(1,507)
ANZ Institutional (Markets)
Melbourne
No trader reviews yet
Balyasny Asset Management
Chicago, USA
No trader reviews yet
Bank of America (Global Markets)
New York, USA
No trader reviews yet
BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking
Madrid
No trader reviews yet
BMO Capital Markets
Toronto, Canada
No trader reviews yet
BNP Paribas Exane
Paris
No trader reviews yet
Citadel LLC
Miami, USA
No trader reviews yet
Citi (Markets)
New York, USA
No trader reviews yet
Daiwa Securities (Global Markets)
Tokyo
No trader reviews yet
Deutsche Bank (Investment Bank)
Frankfurt, Germany
No trader reviews yet
ExodusPoint Capital
New York, USA
No trader reviews yet
ING Financial Markets
Amsterdam
No trader reviews yet
Jefferies (Equities & Fixed Income)
New York, NY
No trader reviews yet
Millennium Management
New York, USA
No trader reviews yet
Mizuho (Global Markets)
Tokyo, Japan
No trader reviews yet
NatWest Markets
London
No trader reviews yet
Nomura (Global Markets)
Tokyo, Japan
No trader reviews yet
RBC Capital Markets
Toronto, Canada
No trader reviews yet
Renaissance Technologies
East Setauket, USA
No trader reviews yet
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
Madrid
No trader reviews yet
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
New York, USA
No trader reviews yet
Scotiabank (Global Banking & Markets)
Toronto, ON
No trader reviews yet
Squarepoint Capital
New York/London
No trader reviews yet
TD Securities
Toronto, Canada
No trader reviews yet
Walleye Capital
Minnetonka, USA
No trader reviews yet
WorldQuant
Old Greenwich, USA
No trader reviews yet

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