Firms, by kind and by city.

Every bank on the tracker: the investment banks, the universal and retail banks, the private banks and the development banks.

The global houses that run sales and trading, coverage and capital markets at scale, with the most structured programmes on the board.

Insurers, reinsurers and the broking houses: actuarial, pricing and capital modelling work that takes statistics and econometrics graduates.

Strategy houses and the consultancies that specialise in financial services. Structured graduate intakes and a case process that rewards practice.

Market makers and proprietary trading firms: they trade their own capital and hire small numbers straight out of university, mostly in Amsterdam, Chicago, London, New York, Sydney and Singapore.

Long-only houses, multi-asset investors, pension and sovereign investors. Graduate schemes here tend to rotate.

Independent M&A and restructuring houses: smaller intakes than the banks, earlier responsibility, and a hiring calendar that is usually ahead of everyone else.

Payments networks, lenders, banking apps and the software finance runs on. Commercial, product and engineering roles in roughly equal measure.

Exchanges, clearing houses, custodians, data vendors and the software the market runs on.

The technology companies the board tracks, from the AI labs to the data platforms, whose quantitative and commercial roles compete with trading for the same people.

Buyout, growth, credit and infrastructure funds, and the operating teams around them. Junior hiring is thin and mostly off-cycle.

The physical commodity houses, the energy majors and the utilities with trading desks. Geneva, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Houston and Singapore.

Competition economics, valuation, damages and expert witness work, plus the research networks around them.

Private banks and wealth managers, concentrated in Switzerland, London and the United States. Client-facing from early on.

Multi-strategy platforms, systematic managers and the smaller research shops. Most of their graduate hiring is quantitative research and engineering.

Digital asset exchanges, the firms that make markets in them, custody, protocols and the foundations behind the chains.

Real estate investors, managers and advisers: acquisitions, asset management and research roles in property, which hire finance graduates and rarely say so loudly.

Early stage funds and their platform teams. Investment roles are rare; platform, operations and research roles are how most people get in.

Retail and institutional brokers and the trading apps: the firms that give everyone else access to the market.