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Our complete range of services allow you to gain the kind of experience you need to accelerate your learning curve and your career development

About BMO Capital Markets

Group Name

BMO Capital Markets

Known to customers as…

  • BMO Capital Markets®†

Number of employees

  • Over 2,400

Principal Locations

  • BMO Capital Markets has offices in 26 locations around the world, including 14 in North America.
    • International locations include U.K., Europe, China, Australia, and South America

What do we do?

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading

What makes this group a great place to work?

  • Being part of BMO’s® vision to be the top-performing financial institution in North America.
  • The opportunity to experience a variety of challenging work within the world of financial services. Our complete range of services allows you to gain the kind of experience you need to accelerate your learning curve and your career development.
  • Working with ambitious, dedicated, and driven individuals in a fast-paced and team-oriented culture.

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Groups within BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is comprised of the following groups: 

Equity Research

  • BMO Capital Markets’ research team is composed of over 70 equity and debt analysts who provide coverage of more than 900 companies across diverse industry sectors. Our Canadian equity research team has been ranked first for 27 consecutive years in the Brendan Wood International survey of institutional investors. For the past two years, StarMine has ranked our Canadian research team first overall for both stock picking and earnings estimates.

Investment Banking

  • Investment Banking provides a broad range of complex financing solutions for its clients. These solutions include:
    • Debt and Equity Financing
    • Merger & Acquisition Advisory Services
    • Mezzanine Financing
    • Private Placements
    • Private Equity
    • Securitization

Corporate Banking

  • Access to capital is a critical part of a company’s plan for growth. BMO Capital Markets works directly with companies to understand their ambitions and determine how best to fulfill these, providing a broad range of solutions to take a business to the next level.
  • Behind the specialized knowledge of our Corporate Banking team, there is the full-service backing of an international bank. For a business, this means both great ideas and solid execution in corporate lending and asset based lending products across a broad range of industry expertise.

Market Risk Management

  • BMO Capital Markets helps businesses manage risk with integrated debt, currency, interest rate and commodity solutions. We also provide efficient funding and liquidity management to our corporate, institutional and government clients through:
    • Commodity Products -Structures to fit your broader risk management policy
    • Credit Derivatives - Sophisticated credit management strategies to reduce credit risk
    • Equity Derivatives - Customized solutions and a range of products structured using our analytical and risk management expertise
    • Foreign Exchange - Potentially add significant value to your dollar bond issues and equity offerings, as well as cross-border Merger & Acquisition deals
    • Interest Rate Derivatives -Solutions to help neutralize market risk and seize market opportunities

Institutional Investing

BMO Capital Markets' professional investment managers using a highly disciplined methodology, provide top-ranked research, trade liquidity, sales and trading, and innovative structuring through Bonds, Equities, Loan Syndications, Money Markets, Prime Brokerage, and Securitized Products

Broker Dealer and & Funds Management

BMO Capital Markets is also the focal point for all relationship management coverage of the Securities and Mutual Fund industries across Canada. Our skilled professionals open access to all lines of business within BMO Financial Group®, offering a full range of banking products.

  • For the Mutual Funds business, we provide cash management, treasury and deferred sales commission financing, together with corporate finance through BMO Financial Group.
  • For the Securities industry, we offer short-term liquidity financing, along with cash management, treasury and trust company services. Within the Securities industry, BMO Financial Group is seen as the premier source of banking services, with high-quality staff and after-sales service. Among non-bank-owned dealers across Canada, we enjoy a market share of close to 70%.

Global Treasury Services

  • Leading companies are always looking for ways to maximize efficiency and gain control over a vital asset: cash. Whether doing business domestically or throughout North America, BMO Capital Markets offers innovative, integrated cash management solutions that are tailored to your specific needs.

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Common Roles

  • Equity Research Analysts and Associate – Capital Markets
  • Trading Professionals  - Capital Markets
  • Analyst or Associate – Capital Markets Sales & Trading
  • Analyst or Associate – Investment & Corporate Banking
  • Managing Director
  • Director
  • Vice President

To search our database of current vacancies, please visit our job search page.

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Sample Intake & Training Programs

We offer a wide variety of opportunities for our employees to learn and grow. Check out our Commitment to Learning section to see how we’re investing in our employees’ development.

Within BMO Capital Markets, here are a few examples of programs designed to help our employees reach their highest level of performance:

Analyst/Associate Investment Banking Intake Programs
  • BMO Capital Markets offers Analysts and Associates a two to three year program that provides practical, hands-on experience in a dynamic investment and corporate banking environment.
Capital Markets Sales and Trading Intake Programs
  • BMO Capital Markets offers entry level sales and trading intake programs to hands-on experience with our trading product businesses.

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What it's like to work here

  • Culture
    • The BMO Capital Markets environment is dynamic, entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and team-oriented.  Our professionals are committed to providing value added advice to our businesses. We are a high performing culture focused on delivering results.

  • Work Norms
    • Formality/Informality: We maintain a formal and professional business environment.  
    • Hours: Work hours in BMO Capital Markets tend to be longer than in other groups.

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®† Registered trade-mark of Bank of Montreal, used under licence.
® Registered trade-mark of Bank of Montreal.

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