Hiring Advice

Explore the biggest financial services compensation trends shaping 2026, including rising incentives, leaner teams, changing bonus structures and growing competition with AI firms for elite technology and quantitative talent.

Explore how European power markets are reshaping trading skills, from quantitative research and technology to risk, infrastructure and hiring demand.

Explore how quant finance firms are building AI teams across APAC, including team structures, roles in demand, junior AI talent and Singapore salary benchmarks.

This market update looks at where firms are concentrating investment - Macro, Rates and FX demand centred on Singapore, opportunistic Credit hiring, and the specialist Equities products drawing the strongest competition — alongside what the tightening market means for employers and candidates heading into 2027.

Why private banks across Asia-Pacific are weighing asset quality, client sustainability and regulatory profile alongside commercial track record when hiring front-office talent in H2 2026.

Where investment banks across Asia-Pacific are concentrating hiring in H2 2026, from ECM and sector coverage to sponsor finance, project finance, and the changing expectations of junior talent.

Explore Operations hiring trends in Asia, from buy-side growth and automation to specialist skills, senior talent shortages and changing hiring needs.

Financial institutions across Hong Kong and Singapore are reshaping their risk functions in response to regulatory, operational, and market challenges, driving demand for professionals with increasingly specialised and commercially focused skill sets.

Technology hiring across Asia is concentrating around specialist functions tied to trading, investment performance and data. This market update examines how AI talent is moving closer to investment teams, why low-latency engineering and Market Data expertise remain difficult to source, and how hiring demand differs across Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China and India heading into 2027.