After finding they were pretty terrible as bankers, Konrad Kay and Mickey Down channeled their failures into writing hit TV show “Industry,” which sees five college graduates navigate the cut-throat finance sector. Like the show’s five central characters, who join fictional investment bank Pierpoint & Co. in London on a competitive placement scheme, Down and Kay started working in finance as graduates. However, Down joked that the show’s characters are much more competent than they ever were when they worked in the sector several years ago. After working as analyst in equity sales for three years, Kay was ... (full story)