One induction week full of talks with people working in different desks around the bank, techinal training and workshops, market simulations and networking events
4 weeks in DCM desk for Sovereigns, Supranationals and Agencies - updated daily flows in the secondary market, helped creating pitch books and RFPs for clients, planning roadshows,post-mortem presentations of deals executed. Spent soem time with the sybdicate desk in order to go through the deala execution, from book building to feedback collection, pricing and allocation calls.
5 weeks in the Asset Finance&Securitisation desk - support in research needed for the team on a daily basis, prepared reports on the positions held by the bank, annaul reviews on some CDOs performance
Along the 10 weeks, attended several technical training sessions, talks and workshops. Shadowed as many desks as possible around the bank, especially in Sales areas including Credit Sales, FX Sales and Structuring, G10 Rates Sales, Equity Derivatives Sales among others
Developed a Microsoft Excel template linked to Bloomberg that displays all the credit and valuation figures that are important to quickly analyze the company and make an investment decision (just enter the ticker and all this information is automatically extracted from Bloomberg)
Support to the Equities and Fixed Income teams in their daily taks
Participation in daily morning meetings to discuss key events in the markets
Supported the research team on a specific ongoing project; prepared two presentations on companies that had just begun being covered by the team; daily monitoring and reporting on Chinese markets turmoil; Bloomberg workshops
Final GPA: 18.13/20 Bank of Portugal Award; Democracy and Development Award - monetary prizes for being Nova SBE best student during the underbraduate degree