Securities and finance dealers and brokers
Almost every task can be done with generative AI, with little uncertainty. This is where the change is biggest — and where switching makes most sense.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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With an exposure score of 63/100, securities dealers face substantial AI assistance in routine execution, data aggregation, and trend analysis. However, navigating complex client negotiations, structuring bespoke capital solutions, and maintaining fiduciary trust will keep experienced professionals essential.
What changes
- Automated routing, verification, and instant execution of buy and sell trade orders.
- Real-time synthesis of cross-asset market trends, macroeconomic data, and foreign exchange patterns.
- Rapid aggregation of corporate balance sheets, earnings reports, and customer financial backgrounds.
What stays human
- Negotiating high-stakes financing terms and debt covenants during complex capital placements.
- Guiding clients emotionally through extreme market volatility and sudden liquidity shocks.
- Exercising ethical judgment, regulatory compliance oversight, and fiduciary responsibility in bespoke deals.
What to learn
- Mastering algorithmic trading platforms, data-prompting tools, and AI-assisted financial modeling workflows.
- Deepening expertise in private credit, complex derivatives, and structured alternative capital solutions.
- Honing high-level negotiation, client relationship management, and cross-border regulatory compliance acumen.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery.66
- Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange65
- Informing prospective customers about market conditions and prospects65
- Obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made63
- Advising on and participating in the negotiation of terms for, and organization of, loans and placement of stocks and bonds in the financial market to raise capital for customers57
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery.(66)
- Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange(65)
- Informing prospective customers about market conditions and prospects(65)
- Obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made(63)
- Advising on and participating in the negotiation of terms for, and organization of, loans and placement of stocks and bonds in the financial market to raise capital for customers(57)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 63.)
About 100% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery.
- • Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange
- • Advising on and participating in the negotiation of terms for, and organization of, loans and placement of stocks and bonds in the financial market to raise capital for customers
- • Obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Business and administration associate professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Business and administration associate professionals |
|---|---|
| Cyprus | 10.6% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 9.0% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 8.6% · 450 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 8.3% · 373 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 8.0% · 71 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 7.8% · 405 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 7.6% · 354 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 7.6% · 232 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 7.4% · 3,144 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 7.4% · 1,772 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 7.2% · 72 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 6.9% · 682 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 6.8% · 47 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 6.7% · 1,961 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 6.6% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 6.6% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 6.5% · 1,121 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 6.2% · 2,127 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 6.0% · 168 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 6.0% · 154 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.9% · 155 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 5.9% · 170 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 5.7% · 167 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 5.6% · 295 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.6% · 94 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 5.3% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 5.1% · 244 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 5.0% · 1,113 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.3% · 63 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.5% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.5% · 151 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Technicians and associate professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland5,280
- Luxembourg4,320
- Norway4,307
- Denmark4,301
- Ireland4,024
- Belgium3,903
- Iceland3,856
- Germany3,608
- Austria3,399
- Netherlands3,247
- EU273,226
- Italy3,127
- Sweden3,089
- Finland2,971
- France2,687
- Spain2,685
- Slovenia2,660
- Cyprus2,537
- Lithuania2,472
- Malta2,464
- Romania2,310
- Poland2,294
- Czechia2,275
- Estonia2,251
- Croatia2,127
- Latvia2,081
- Hungary2,054
- Greece2,050
- Portugal2,044
- Slovakia2,027
- Bulgaria1,738
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Business and administration associate professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?