Broker Training Scheme

A Global Leader in Brokerage & Market Data Services

Compagnie Financière Tradition (CFT) is one of the world’s leading interdealer brokers, with operations across 30 countries. Founded in 1959 in Lausanne, and listed on the Swiss Stock exchange since 1973, CFT is a leading global financial firm offering hi-touch, hybrid and electronic trade execution and information services. We are a leading global partner for our 7,500 clients, helping them navigate financial and commodity-related markets.

A Comprehensive Global Product Offering

As a trusted intermediary and marketplace, we facilitate transactions between financial institution and professional traders in capital markets. We handle a wide spectrum of trades—ranging from simple to complex, highly liquid to niche, across a variety of asset classes. Our success is rooted in our deep understanding of our clients' evolving needs, coupled with strong expertise in the markets. We provide brokerage services across a broad range of financial and commodity markets, including but not limited to:

• Financial Markets: Money markets, interest rate and currency derivatives, equities, equity derivatives, bonds, repos, and credit derivatives.
• Commodity Markets: Derivatives in oil, natural gas, power, coal, weather, emissions, precious metals, pulp and paper, and property.

Global footprint.

Local expertise. With more than 40 offices in over 30 countries, we connect our clients to liquidity hubs and offering deep insights into local markets and products. Our long-standing relationships with a broad range of counterparties allow us to meet the diverse needs of our global client base.

The Broker Training Programme

Tradition is offering candidates a unique opportunity to experience the dynamic and exciting industry of broking by joining our broker training programme.

Our comprehensive programme in the highly competitive world of finance offers an excellent start to your career as a broker. The programme gives you exposure to an extensive range of products and an opportunity to network with highly-experienced industry professionals. You will gain an insight into the day-to-day reality of broking through multi-product work shadowing, formal tutorials and interactive simulated broking sessions.

Tradition’s Broker Training Programme will once again be rotating around our London office. As well as offering opportunities across many asset classes, students will have the chance of being offered a position in any of the locations that are participating in the programme if they are successful.

The programme will run for approximately 4 months, and will give hands-on experience of the challenges that are faced when working in a constantly evolving industry. You will be supported by mentors throughout your journey and we will arrange regular progress checkpoints to provide you with feedback to guide you in the right direction.

Interns will sit formal exams sponsored by the company, and undergo normal checks in line with FCA requirements. At the end of the programme permanent employment will be offered to successful entrants that have proven their ability.

With a competitive starting salary and other benefits such as private medical insurance and corporate gym membership, Tradition is an employer of choice for a future generation of brokers.

What We Look For

Regardless of academic background or degree discipline, we are looking for candidates with:

• Strong drive and ambition to succeed
• Strong negotiation skills
• Numerical capability
• Self-confidence
• An outgoing disposition
• Resilience
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues
• Ability to work in a team

All applicants must be available for a September 2027 start date & be looking for full time employment at the end of the programme, as well as being available for interviews between November and March.