Barclays S&T/MS Fixed Income S&T - How do they compare with other banks?

How does Barclays stack up against other banks with regards to S&T? Is it at the top, average, or bottom? How about MS Fixed Income S&T? Which one would you prefer to work at and why?

 
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Honestly, looking purely from the revenue perspective; Barclays' S&T (in fixed income) is stronger than MS, particularly in the Rates business across Europe. The strength of MS (in S&T) lies in equities and commodities trading (consistently ranked 1 or 2 in both).

Everyone on the street knows that MS had downsized their fixed income business a few years ago to focus more on it's wealth management, due to regulations over risk, OTC derivatives and stuff. But for the traders, salesmans, and structures that are left within the MS FID, they are doing pretty well for themselves.

Go for MS, the culture there is more ambitious, but actually very friendly, and will line you up for the best exist opportunities out there.

 

Are you referring to the summer analyst or graduate program? What location are you based in?

If you are good at what you do, there will always be good exit opps for you. You will have no problem moving into a macro HF if you are one of the best traders at Barclays Rate desk for example. However, I think Barclays is going under a lot of structural changes, and personally I see there are still a lot of regulation pressure on many of those European banks.

Statistically, I've known more MS business professionals moving to the buy side than any other banks.

 

I'm new to this website and I wasn't sure where to put this post. Sorry for the confusion.

So even though MS has a better name, you think that Barcap is the way to go?

 

I'd go with Barclays, MS FI is in a bit of a rough period right now.

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