The investment and financial services industry in the UnitedStates largely consists of selling different products or servicesto existing or prospective clients and customers. The peopleresponsible for executing these sales are known as securities,commodities and financial services sales agents. These sales agentsmarket and sell individual stocks, bonds, commodities andderivative instruments to current or future customers. The sale ofsecurities is how the brokerage firms and large banks for whichthese agents work make their money.Sales agents have different functions depending on what part ofthe financial industry they focus on. For example, sales agentsthat work for an investment bank are focused on selling theirbank’s services to private companies that express interest inoffering their st