The 23-year-old from Canning Town who knocked on doors in Kensington to make it in finance ‘I knew I had to get out of my comfort zone,’ Reggie Nelson says. ‘Do something those around me weren’t doing; something different’

Reggie Nelson is not your typical financial services professional. Yes, he attended university and has a degree in economics, but for the east Londoner, the usual traits required for entry into the City end there. Nelson was born and raised…