I applied as usual and after a couple of months got a call asking if i was still interested and when would i be available for a telephone interview. We set the date and time and it went well. They asked what i would call generic questions about myself and my CV, and who their main competitors were and why I wanted to work specifically for them. It went very well and went slightly over time (closer to 30 minutes than 20) but overall was a good telephone interview. I then received and email later that day to confirm i was through to the next stage which would be at their offices. it stated in the email that there would be 2 numerical literacy tests and one group presentation and a short one to one interview as well. I arrived on time and we (me and my fellow interviewees) were sent into a large room with tables facing a projected screen. There was a 5 minute introduction, a couple of example questions for the first test then we were straight into it, pens paper calculators and all. The first was a 'bloomberg stock trade simulation test' that was timed to 40 seconds per question. I found this very hard and pressurised as there was nothing online that i could have used to prepare for this. The screen was split into exchange rates along the bottom, company share prices in a small table, two pieces of news regarding the price of certain stocks etc and a video showing the 'presenter' who basically just read out the news. It was multiple choice and i definitely struggled. The only thing that cheered me up was the fact that the people on either side of me seemed to be totally guessing the answers as they filled out their questionnaires randomly after the test ended. Then there was a 5/10 minute break and we were given SHL numeric reasoning tests to complete, 20 questions in 20 minutes (60 seconds per) which was on paper so at least we could go back and forth to questions. Then 10 minutes break again. we were then told we had 10 minutes to come up with a presentation which would encourage a client (the interviewer) to invest in gold. The time flew and though we were allowed to use our phones to check the stock prices or just google, like i said the time was absolutely minimal, make sure your group is organised very early in who is doing what! then we were called in individually for less than 10 minutes to 'sell' ourselves and answer some questions including about them in the news recently and so forth. There is very little time to really do much here and i think they only do this one to one bit because of obligation or something. they got back to me 7 days later saying thanks but no thanks. Overall the experience was very clinical and it didnt seem like an interview so much as a series of exams. We werent really given time to introduce ourselves to them or each other. Despite brokering being heavily based on personality. Their rejection letter was very well written though and i have asked for feedback which they will hopefully send sooner rather than later