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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
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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
READ MORE Technology skills are quite important for someone to succeed in interviews but they’re only half the battle. The other half which is at least equally important is Social Capital. The sooner one understands the need to build one’s Social Capital, the better. Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with Jordan Harbinger who used to be the host of one
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Cloud Infrastructure Newsletter, Q4 2017 The cloud technology market in Hong Kong is continuing to grow and its adoption is picking up in pace as more firms look to integrate cloud into their infrastructure and further develop techs such as Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and IoT into their businesses. This has also
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Banking Tech Sector From past experience, we usually find Q2 and Q3 to be the most active quarters for banking tech hiring. This year, however, Q3 and the first half of Q4 were a lot more “happening” in terms of hiring. Overall, there was plenty of hiring activity across front office development teams
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Banking Tech Sector Key trends: More “diversity” hiring: There has been a pronounced initiative by banks to bring in “diversity” candidates into technology. The last time we saw such a strong industry-wide drive was in 2007 Increase in roles: Perhaps due to possible deregulation talk from the US, the market was quite active in the
READ MORE You’ve probably heard Jia Jiang’s Ted talk on handling rejection and learning from it, now he also has a book that has had many great reviews. No one likes to be rejected but this 15-minute video will teach you how to handle it, learn from it and potentially turn rejections into opportunities!
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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