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As we are trying our best to accomplish various things in life like climbing up the career ladder or trying to run the next ultra marathon or planning the next awesome vacation, we sometimes tend to take life for granted. We assume we will continue to be hale and healthy, we assume that nothing will rock the boat of our
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Today on the podcast I have Daniel Bar with me. He is an entrepreneur who is particularly interested in disruptive technologies in the FinTech space. He is the co-founder of the blockchain community Bitfwd and a co-founder of Tenzorum, a start-up that aims to use key management protocols to ensure safe personalized access to blockchain technologies Daniel’s background: Can you
READ MORE How to write a good technical CV? In this podcast, we cover what it takes to write a good technical CV. Topics covered: Why should you write a Technical CV What is a Technical CV Meat of the podcast CLEAR – Clarity, Length, Explanation / Expansion, Accuracy, Relevance Common Mistakes people make on their CVs FAQ: Should we put a
READ MORE Stephen Langley was in a leadership role with IBM (London) in the past and after his move to Hong Kong, he became the deputy CIO of the Securities and Future Commission (SFC). He did that for close to 5 years before moving onto a different role within SFC. He now leads the Data Analytics team at SFC. His Linked
READ MORE “High Frequency Trading” / “Market Making” – we’ve heard that term quite a lot in the Electronic Trading Systems space but what does it exactly mean and what does it take to be a good HFT trader or a market maker? We’ve got Scott Christensen, the CIO Hanpa Trading to help answer those questions. Scott used to work as
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Banking Tech Sector We saw quite a few roles open up for Site Reliability Engineers and Platform Reliability Engineers. From our understanding, both are similar but the difference is this: DevOps predominantly deals with automating the deployment process of software (formerly Software Operations) and SREs are developers who write the software that aids
READ MORE Today on the podcast we are honored to have with us Lukas Petrikas who is the co-head of Innovation at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited or better known as HKEX. His Linked In profile summary explains what he does best. “I look for creative business models and disruptive technology innovations that can deliver value and open new opportunities for
READ MORE Today on the podcast I have an accomplished technologist and friend of mine who I’ve known from 2007! When I first spoke to him, he was working in Beijing as a software developer with no experience in the Finance space. Today, within 11 years, he is an Executive Director at JP Morgan in New York. He has had many roles
READ MORE Today, we have on the podcast, someone I have known and admired for a while! He has quite an accomplished career and has built quite some expertise in the world of Electronic Trading systems. He is currently the Head of Electronic Trading Solutions at Daiwa Capital Markets and was with UBS before focusing on their Algorithmic Trading platform. Before that
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO [Banking Tech sector] With the Chinese New Year trailing not so far behind the New Year, hiring slowed during January / February. There was increased activity in terms of interviews when compared to Q1 2017 but actual hiring took slightly longer because of the holidays. After some drama over the future of crypto-related
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Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC