Associate Director, Rates Repo Trader

Area of Interest: Investment Banking, Markets, and Research

Location:

London, GB, E14 5HQ

Work style: Office Worker

Date: 29 May 2025

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HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led, financing-focused business that provides investment and financial solutions. Through our international network, we connect emerging and mature markets, covering key growth areas. We partner with our corporate, government and institutional clients to help them achieve consistent, long-term performance. Our products and services include advisory, financing, prime services, research and analysis, securities services, trading and sales and transaction banking.

HSBC Market & Securities Services (MSS) provides comprehensive global, regional and domestic fund services including fund administration, global custody and sub-custody settlement and services. Securities Lending Operations is a dynamic department that works with partners across the HSBC Global Banking and Markets business to deliver Securities Lending solutions to clients.

We are looking for a high calibre candidate to join the fast growing Repo Trading team based in London, servicing our clients across the whole region and globally.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

- Price and risk manage fixed income financing transactions. The transactions are predominately flow in nature but also do span less vanilla structures and markets as well.
- Employing cost effective hedging strategies across markets in Money Markets, Rates, Credit and Foreign Exchange. Typical products traded will include repos, stock borrow/lending, loans/deposits, cash bonds, FX swaps, futures, interest rate/cross-currency and security based swaps.
- The primary focus of this role is UK Gilt repo and short-end asset swap trading. However, because the team size is smaller, the candidate will need to be able to provide cover for traders in financing of Credit securities from Global issuers across investment grade and high yield markets.
- Generating trade ideas, discussing these with Sales and also directly with clients. Be willing to establish strong connections with our clients and work will all our stakeholders in pursuit of the best outcomes. Develop direct trading relationships with other market participants.
- Manage the counterparty and market risks that are generated in the portfolio. Understand how these exposures evolve overtime and be responsible for dynamically controlling them as market conditions change.
- Work closely with all our internal Stakeholders including Senior Management, other Trading/Sales Desks, BSM, ALCM, Risk, Operations, Finance, Legal, Technology and all other Functions. To understand the financial resources available to the desk and how to optimise those against a backdrop of smooth front-to-back deal processing.

To be successful you should meet the following requirements:

- Proven experience in a Repo Trading role, supplemented by trading skills in other short-term Interest Rates products.
- Demonstrated track record of revenue generation in a market making role.
- Keen interest in and a good understanding of the wider markets.
- An interest to improve existing and create new products, tools and processes for the desk.
- Have strong skills in team working and a passion to continue to work as part of a team for most tasks throughout the working day. Also needing a high degree of self-motivation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. The role requires the trader to work closely and develop new relationships with Sales, clients, brokers, other market counterparties and all Functions.

This role is based in London.

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