A chap I know who worked at Goldman Sachs, Merill Lynch and Credit Suisse, running teams of people in derivatives clearing, OTC settlement etc. has a degree in Construction Management; nothing related to finance whatsoever.<p>More anecdotally, the primarily qualification for City traders is that they can think quickly on their feet and have an intuitive grasp of numbers. Nothing mathematical, just arithmetic. Trading is extremely performance led, and performance is explicit in numbers. So social capital or education as social signalling isn&#x27;t particularly valuable.