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JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title:
Trading Support    

Corporate Title:
 Associate

Department:
       IT

Location:
Hong Kong

Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit

Department overview:
Instinet's technology is as diverse as it is innovative, incorporating industry-leading technologies to service the ever-evolving and dynamic global financial markets industry. The Asia Trading Systems Support (TSS) team is our prestigious, highly-skilled, technical and business-facing team within Instinet spanning across India, Australia and its main hub, Hong Kong.

The team provides trading technology services to Instinet's electronic, portfolio trading and high-touch sales teams across the region. Collaborating globally with US and EU regions, TSS strives to improve, build and architect Instinet's trading platform to become the leading example of all execution trading platforms.

Role Description
We put our clients and users of our execution trading platform first. The financial industry is always changing and we need Trading Support Analysts who are passionate about tackling technology and workflow problems that lead to the best customer experience.

In the role, you will work with development, product and business users to deliver stability, control and trading solutions to our core trading platform. You can interpret, diagnose and define problems, apply creativity and critical thinking with a thirst for learning about technology and its application in trading.

Above all, you are a team-player with the ability to communicate ideas/solutions to your teammates with a passionate drive to explore your curiosity and improve the trading platform.

At Instinet, we continuously evolve our execution trading platform with the aim to deliver an unparalleled user experience and trading platform performance. As a Trading System Analyst at Instinet, you could be working on any number of products and projects on the core trading platform. Our goal is to match your abilities and interests within the team where you will grow and have the most impact.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Investigate and resolve issues methodically with a sense of urgency and a high-level of professionalism

•    Understand financial markets, technology, trading applications and the trade lifecycle in depth 

•    Stay current with financial and technological trends, regulations and best practices

•    Work collaboratively with regional and global teams as needed across trading, technology, risk and compliance to deliver strategic and client-driven solutions for some of the largest and most prestigious institutional clients in the industry 

•    Monitor, analyze and maintain the health of the Instinet core trading platform

•    Hands-on deployment of trading applications preparation, execution and verification

•    Generate reports on system performance and upon business requirements

•    Focus on efficiency and sustainable support that can scale

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

•    Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University or equivalent experience.

•    Minimum of 3 years' experience as a Trading Support Analyst. 

•    Proficient in Unix and Python scripting. 

•    Solid understanding of cash equities market, software and trading lifecycles.

•    Familiarity with FIX protocols and full stack development would be an advantage.

•    Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, and collaboration tools.

•    Excellent problem-solving, project management, business analysis and time management skills.

•    Excellent communication and presentation skills with a strong command of the English language.

•    Strong team player with willingness to teach and learn from others.

Company Introduction:
*We're home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.

Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.
HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."
Job Summary: *
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Exchange Trading Platform quality assurance & implementation engineer.

Successful candidate will be placed in the Derivatives Trading business unit, working on the Derivatives Trading platform from design to implementation. You will collaborate with a team of Business SMEs and IT professions to create a world class, robust, scalable and innovative Derivatives Trading platform.

Job Duties:
Job Duties
Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive impact analysis on functional and operational change. Prepare necessary documentation to engage relevant stakeholders in the overall change management process
• Analyze the technical and operational system requirements, create & review necessary documentations including but not limited to test plan, test condition, test case for the overall system acceptance
• Execute and verify the results of all testing cycles under tight schedule
• Participate into the investigation process for all issues identified
• Partner closely with cross-functional testing teams to verify the end to end system operational and technical readiness. Assist in the investigation and resolve any conflicts identified
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders, including IT teams and users, to achieve project and operation success.
• Undertake assignments and projects as delegated by the supervisor.

Requirement:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration or a related field
• Background in financial services / telecom industry or highly regulated organizations with exposures on platform development / transformation is a plus.
• Knowledge on trading platform, market practices and / or derivatives is preferred.
• At least 3 years of system development / client support experience in Trading Platform
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to translate system language into business terminology effectively in English and Chinese (Mandarin proficiency is an advantage).

Why join us:

• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact, shaping the market microstructure and empowering businesses to thrive in the competitive derivatives trading landscape
• A dynamic, growth-oriented environment where your skills and expertise will be celebrated and rewarded.
• A supportive and collaborative team, eager to learn from your knowledge and experience while also sharing their own.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities, ensuring you stay at the forefront of cloud innovation and continue to hone your expertise.

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.
Location:
HKEX - Exchange Square

Shift:
Standard - 40 Hours (Hong Kong SAR)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Worker Type:
Contract

Brand: HSBC

Area of Interest: Investment Banking, Markets, and Research

Location:

Central, Hong Kong Island, HK

Work style: Office Worker

Date: 21 Oct 2025

Job Description

• Product Specialist: maximising profit opportunity via all legs of revenue (repo, epsilon, rho, commissions, and financing). In doing so providing timely and accurate dealing services for clients in the assigned area.
• Provide timely and accurate dealing services for clients in the assigned area
• Effectively maintain various risk positions and manages within position limits, providing liquidity and trading within set limits to achieve a given revenue target
• Pricing, risk management, monitoring exposure and cost management
• Working with COOs, support teams and legal to expand the counterparty base and enhance platforms in a controlled manner
• Improve Financing Capabilities for Swap flow
• Manage the firm's inventory and trading risk under supervision and as assigned in compliance with all applicable regulation within a given business area
• Working with HBAP/HBEU/HBUS in offering and pricing swap products to global clients
• Maintain and increase market share in index products
• Execute firm and customers' trades in accordance with desk Volcker designation
• Determining Market Sentiments through reading of research reports, valuation and Data analysis reports, and understanding corporate events
• Adhere to local regulatory policies and trading venue rules applicable to the job holder location and the balance sheet location the trader is mandated
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of the product area. Understanding industry developments and being able to position and adapt the business strategies accordingly.
• Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets
• Act on unusual/ unacceptable activity or behaviours and escalate appropriately
• Create synergies and work with other parts of the Global Equities business (Front to Back Office). Where applicable, lead, develop and motivate the team to attract, retain and develop capacity, capability and talents with the required key relevant skills
• Operate with professionalism and increasing technical proficiency
• Maintain strong audit culture
• Exhibit and adhere to a culture of open and transparent communication.
• Consistently engage with Management and Sales Teams.

Qualification

• The jobholder will be able to demonstrate the certifications and qualifications required to exercise the job mandate has been obtained.
• Prior experience in Markets or academic experience.
• Degree level in Maths, Engineering or equivalent
• Good communication skills and be able to manage relationships effectivey with a range of different stakeholders
• Able to manage time and balance multiple priorities effectively

Company Introduction:

We're home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.

Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.

HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary:

Supports daily operations and projects within the Cash Trading business, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to the development and optimization of the Hong Kong market structure through participation in various market feasibility studies.

Job Duties:

Responsibilities:

• Involve in the execution and implementation of HKEX's strategic projects, including but not limited to the Hong Kong market structure and Stock Connect related projects
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the smooth delivery of project initiatives which affect cash trading, on areas including but not limited to impact assessment, system changes requirements and testing of these relevant changes
• Act as an internal subject matter expert for Hong Kong market structure and Stock Connect and liaise with counterparts in the Mainland exchanges and clearing house
• Design/assist to design and deliver business solutions for Stock Connect related and other initiatives
• Conduct market and policy research relating to market development for the execution of strategic projects
• Prepare write-ups, management papers, reports, proposals and presentation materials (both in English and Chinese)

Requirements:

• University degree holder preferably in finance, economics or other business-related subjects
• 3+ years' relevant experience in the financial services industry
• A self-starter, team player and good communicator with sound judgment and good problem-solving skills.
• Strong technical skills and understanding in Hong Kong cash market and Stock Connect a definite advantage
• Strong business sense with ability to multitask across priorities and deadlines
• Proficiency in English and Chinese (Mandarin) a must with excellent communications skill and proactive attitude

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.

Location:

HKEX - Exchange Square

Shift:

Standard - 40 Hours (Hong Kong SAR)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Permanent

Summary
Our Markets Traders identify, analyse and execute opportunities in the market, supporting the needs of our clients in a professional and fully compliant way. Our Markets business aims to become the leading emerging markets fixed income, financing, and securities service franchise, and a leader in sustainable finance, advisory, trading and asset servicing.

The business will achieve this by expanding product capabilities, building on footprint market strength, developing our talent and using technology to transform our ways of working. We're looking for highly capable individuals to join us and maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism, in line with our valued behaviours.

Key Responsibilities

• Sustainably grow franchise revenue by supporting our clients, acting as a market-maker and effectively manage our risk exposures.
• Manage and execute trading strategies and ensure long term economic profit goals are achieved.
• Develop market making strategies in target markets.
• Ensure trading activities are compliant to standards based on risk-weighted asset and return on equity targets management.
• Ensure budget targets are cascaded to teams with product targets, and proactively performance manage targets through to delivery.
• Collaborate with global Relationship Managers, Capital Structuring and Distribution Group and Financial Market Sales to identify clients needing solutions that the public market cannot provide.
• Identify, analyse and drive profitable trading opportunities to client requirements and goals, for example – supporting the growing demand for sustainable finance.
• Navigate new trading markets and capitalise on new sustainable finance opportunities, for example - Carbon Credit Trading.
• Leverage emerging technologies to digitise trading, including Cognitive Algorithmic Trading platform to monitor market risks, real-time inventory, pricing negotiation and business insights

Skills And Experience

• Financial mathematics and financial products.
• Risk management, financial and credit analysis.
• Experience adapting to client behaviors and preferences.
• Economic analysis and modelling.
• Emerging technology.

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter,
we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Job ID: 40483

Location: Central, HK

Area of interest: Financial Markets

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 20 Oct 2025

Summary

Our Markets Traders identify, analyse and execute opportunities in the market, supporting the needs of our clients in a professional and fully compliant way. Our Markets business aims to become the leading emerging markets fixed income, financing, and securities service franchise, and a leader in sustainable finance, advisory, trading and asset servicing.

The business will achieve this by expanding product capabilities, building on footprint market strength, developing our talent and using technology to transform our ways of working. We're looking for highly capable individuals to join us and maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism, in line with our valued behaviours.

Key Responsibilities

• Sustainably grow franchise revenue by supporting our clients, acting as a market-maker and effectively manage our risk exposures.
• Manage and execute trading strategies and ensure long term economic profit goals are achieved.
• Develop market making strategies in target markets.
• Ensure trading activities are compliant to standards based on risk-weighted asset and return on equity targets management.
• Ensure budget targets are cascaded to teams with product targets, and proactively performance manage targets through to delivery.
• Collaborate with global Relationship Managers, Capital Structuring and Distribution Group and Financial Market Sales to identify clients needing solutions that the public market cannot provide.
• Identify, analyse and drive profitable trading opportunities to client requirements and goals, for example – supporting the growing demand for sustainable finance.
• Navigate new trading markets and capitalise on new sustainable finance opportunities, for example - Carbon Credit Trading.
• Leverage emerging technologies to digitise trading, including Cognitive Algorithmic Trading platform to monitor market risks, real-time inventory, pricing negotiation and business insights

Skills and Experience

• Financial mathematics and financial products.
• Risk management, financial and credit analysis.
• Experience adapting to client behaviors and preferences.
• Economic analysis and modelling.
• Emerging technology.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

About the role:

We are looking for a Associate of Derivatives Trading Operations to join our Derivatives trading team. The Derivatives Operations team is the core department of our company, specifically accountable for futures/swaps trading activities. Its responsibilities encompass numerous aspects, ranging from market analysis, strategy formulation, trade execution to risk management. The primary goals of this division are to guarantee the seamless conduct of the company's futures/swaps trading activities, attain the company's predefined profitability targets, and manage trading risks effectively.

Job Responsibilities:

1.Execute and manage futures/swaps transactions based on commodities trading strategies and customer needs.

2. Monitoring the futures/swaps market and trading risks, timely response to market changes.

3.Responsible for the transaction order entry, confirmation and post-transaction settlement process.

4.Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports of futures/swaps transactions to provide decision-making basis for management.

5.Analyze the movements and trends of the futures/swaps market, and put forward trading suggestions and improvement plans

6.Cooperate with compliance department to complete relevant inspection and audit work.

Job Requirements:

1.University Degree holder preferably in Finance/ Statistics/ Information Technology or related disciplines.

2.Sound knowledge of the futures/swaps products, market practices and the trading platform.

3.Familiar with the futures/swaps of the iron ore product is preferred.

4.Proficient with MS Excel, knowledge in Power BI, SQL and VBA an advantage.

5.Proactive, careful, serious and responsible carefully to complete tasks.

6.Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese, proficiency in Putonghua is an advantage.

7.Shift duties are required, and work experience with shift duties is an added advantage.

The salary is negotiable and will be determined based on the candidate's abilities and experience.

CITIC CLSA provides global investors and corporate executives with insights, liquidity and capital to drive their growth strategies.

Award-winning research, an extensive Asia footprint, direct links to China and highly experienced finance professionals differentiate our innovative products and services in asset management, corporate finance, equity and debt capital markets, securities and wealth management.

As part of CITIC Securities (SSE: , SEHK: 6030), China's leading investment bank, CITIC CLSA is uniquely positioned to facilitate cross-border capital flows and connect China to the world and the world to China.

CITIC CLSA operates from 13 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. For further information, please visit

Position Description

The Execution Consulting Team is part of the Equities Algo Strategy Team of CSI. It has a cross-region and cross-channel (Electronic Trading, Portfolio Trading and High Touch) mandate to provide execution consultancy services to equity sales traders and CSI's clients.

We strive for innovation and a quantitative, data-driven approach to trading.

Our culture is collaborative and one where everyone is valued and given the opportunity to make an impact.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Produce Transaction Cost Analysis of client trading flow and advise clients on optimizing their usage of CSI's trading algorithms.
• Generate thought leadership content on market microstructure, regulatory trends, index events, and product evolution.
• Respond to internal and external clients' data and analysis requests.
• Quantify overall platform performance.
• Develop and maintain the team's data sourcing, validation, and pipelining infrastructure.
• Create and manage analytics calculators, automated reporting, and dashboard tools.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance data quality and analytical capabilities.
• Support strategic initiatives by providing data-driven insights and recommendations.

Requirements

• Degree or above in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative subject.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, working hands on with quantitative tools demonstrating data analysis skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Python and programming skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative team player who is open to new ideas.
• Excellent command of both spoken and written English and Chinese.

Additional desirable attributes are:

• Experience of financial markets and equities market microstructure.
• Ability to code in q/kdb+