In Season 1 of HBO’s ‘Industry’, one of the main characters, Yasmin — who works on the foreign exchange sales desk at an investment bank — is asked to pitch a business idea in less than a minute.
This week on the FT on ‘Industry’ series, Working It editor Isabel Berwick and business commentator Justin Urquhart Stewart discuss how forex trade deals actually work in real life.
Ahead of the show’s Season 4 premiere on January 11, we’re taking a closer look at the on-screen careers of some of the main characters and asking one question: what is the world of finance really like?
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