SVP, Interest Rate Trader, GFM
DBS seeks an experienced Asia rates market-maker in Hong Kong. The desk trades bonds and interest-rate instruments while managing market exposures and supporting its regional franchise.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Quote bonds and rates instruments for the desk
- Analyse market and economic data for trading decisions
- Manage exposures within desk limits
- Work with structuring and sales on trading opportunities
What they ask for
Required
- Ten to fifteen years in Asian rates trading
- Trading-platform and analytical tools
- Rates-instrument knowledge
- Decision-making under pressure
- English and Chinese/Putonghua
Preferred
- China-market exposure
- Education
- Finance, economics or related business degree; level is unspecified.
- Experience
- 10–15 years of relevant Asia interest-rate trading; China experience preferred.
- Markets
- fixed-income, fx
How to prepare
- Explain a rates position through its curve and basis exposures
- Prepare a market-making example under changing liquidity
- Show how an Asia macro event changes a trading risk plan
What to study
- Fixed Income and Interest-Rate Models
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and doesn’t handle applications.