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Angus Cameron - Trade Structuring: Systematizing a Hidden Edge (S4E6)

Flirting with Models

CHAPTER

The Prop Desk Model in the 90s

In the 80s and 90s, there was a legal separation between retail banks and investment banks. Bankers Trust brought an innovative model to the investment banking world based on understanding risk and market cycles. They effectively invented the var methodology that we use today. In the mid 2000s, when I hear prop desk, I tend to think things like risk inventory or even revenue source for a bank.

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