Since April 2002, Folker Hellmeyer has been Chief Analyst of the the Bremer Landesbank, responsible for sales foreign exchange and money market. From 1995 to 2002 he was Senior Dealer and Chief Analyst of the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen GZ. As a commentator in the international financial markets, he can be seen regularly on ARD, n-tv, Bloomberg and the NDR. Upon completion of his bank studies, he worked as an assistant and customer trader in Deutsche Bank AG's foreign exchange trading in Hamburg.