Trading Desk in the Southeast

It's about time to start looking for a job after graduation and I want to get into trading, preferably for a decent sized bank but I don't think i want to live in NYC. I was wondering if someone could shed some light as to some banks that have desks in the Southeast. I know Robinson Humphrey(SunTrust) in Atlanta, I think BoA has a desk in Charlotte, and Raymond James has something in St. Pete. I didn't know if any BBs had branch/satellite desks located in places other than their headquarters in NYC. Are there any other banks around the southeast that have trading desks that might make a good place to start a career? And I've heard the ceiling as far as pay is a little higher in NYC, but other than that are there any other major differences in going to work for say SunTrust versus a BB in NYC?

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Yea, STRH's trading operation is definitely based in Atlanta. That's really the only one that I am familiar with or know anything about, I was just trying to see what the other options were for trading outside of NYC, preferably in the south.

 

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