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About the Role
This London-based role focuses on optimizing client revenues through agency securities lending across fixed income and cash assets, operating within HSBC’s risk and governance framework. Success means delivering strong risk-adjusted outcomes, maintaining a premier-quality client experience, and providing clear input into portfolio evaluations and market commentary.
Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize an agency lending trading book, allocating inventory predominantly across fixed income and cash to maximize risk-adjusted returns.
- Deliver against business performance targets including counterparty and market revenue and balance targets using benchmarking and performance tools.
- Monitor performance versus plan and recommend tactical changes in response to evolving market and business conditions.
- Identify opportunities to raise cash financing, deploy cash and non-cash liquidity and manage term risk within agreed client mandates.
- Manage collateral and liquidity considerations including short- and long-term cash liquidity requirements and contribution to target Return on Risk Weighted Assets (RoRWA) outcomes.
- Provide input into portfolio evaluations and market commentary, reflecting client profiles and investment strategies.
- Use securities lending and market systems effectively including trading applications, Global 1, custody platforms (GCS/GHSS) and Bloomberg alongside strong Excel capability.
- Maintain a premier-quality client experience through timely responses and end-to-end ownership of stakeholder queries.
Requirements
- Bring strong experience in fixed income agency securities lending trading or closely related markets activity such as secured financing and repo ideally with EMEA market coverage.
- Demonstrate proven experience identifying and executing revenue opportunities and implementing trading strategies across inventory, collateral and liquidity optimisation.
- Apply strong capability in securities lending pricing including pricing methodologies and the drivers of demand and market dynamics.
- Show strong understanding of cash reinvestment and cash management in the context of securities lending.
- Assess client profiles and investment strategies to optimise risk-versus-return performance within agreed mandates.
- Build and maintain counterparty relationships across European market participants such as prime brokers, broker-dealers and repo and funding desks.
- Operate with strong risk management and governance discipline including trading within limits and frameworks and escalating issues appropriately.
- Partner effectively across wider custody functions including income, settlements and corporate actions to support end-to-end delivery.
Skills
- Fixed income agency securities lending trading
- Secured financing
- Repo
- EMEA market coverage
- Revenue opportunity identification and execution
- Trading strategy implementation
- Inventory optimisation
- Collateral optimisation
- Liquidity optimisation
- Securities lending pricing
- Pricing methodologies
- Demand drivers
- Market dynamics
- Cash reinvestment
- Cash management
- Risk-versus-return performance assessment
- Counterparty relationship building
- Risk management
- Governance discipline
- Excel capability
- Bloomberg
- Global 1
- GCS/GHSS
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- Tailored professional development opportunities
- Competitive pay and benefits package
- Private healthcare for all UK-based employees
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support
- Contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution
About the Company
- HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories.
- We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
Equal Opportunity
- Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve.
- At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.
- We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.
- We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
- If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk: Telephone: +44 207 832 8500