Can you do the following: spend the morning summarising the minutiae of the EU’s incoming securities rulebook for your senior managers who don’t have the time to go through its thousands of pages, before talking a big client through the intricacies of a new trading venue over lunch, then rushing to meetings to represent your firm to regulators and on consortia projects?

If the answer is yes, then you're probably one of a small but growing band of market structure specialists within banks, brokers and other trading firms and your expertise is in hot demand.