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Bank & Institutional Trading Desks
Bank / Institutional covers bank and institutional trading desks that hire and back professional traders.
32 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 · 32 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. A secondary funding model is included when those programs do not already cover it; firms with no programs fall back to their primary and secondary labels.
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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Proprietary (14) · Internal (11) · Internal systems (3)
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