AGENCY LENDING TRADER (JOB NUMBER: C L000016)
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world's largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
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**Position Purpose**
The Agency Lending team provides asset owners and asset managers with securities lending services out of desks in Sydney, Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Agency Lending team acts as an agent for a variety of clients (sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, and other asset owners such as insurance companies and financial institutions including banks and credit unions). The main function is to lend securities for either cash collateral or securities as an agent for both custody clients and non-custody clients.
This is a newly created role. In the past 2 years, we have created a new Agency SL Desk in Hong Kong (HK) to act as the primary Agency Lending Desk in APAC focusing on APAC markets and leading the team both based in HK and Sydney.
The Agency Lending Trader would play an integral role in the regional team with the primary function being to generate revenues by lending fixed income and equities to local and regional brokers. The Agency Lending Trader will work in a small regional team split between Sydney and Hong Kong while also having regular interaction with the team based in London and New York. Outside of lending securities the Agency Lending Trader will be required to work on internal projects which aim to optimize the trading setup as well as maintaining strong relationship with external brokers.
**Responsibilities**
The Agency Lending Trader will have responsibility for:
- Lend Equities and Fixed Income for Agency Lending Funds
- Maintain and assist in relationship management for brokers and counterparties
- Analyze data and processes and identify efficiency improvements, product or business development opportunities
- Managing the 'recall' lifecycle with both borrowers and operations
- Monitor Daily P&L
- Contribute to market commentaries and analysis
- Understand and work within regulatory parameters for Asia and recognize global regulation
- Preparation of the statistics, benchmarking, presentations
- Assist/create estimates for potential clients.
- Up-date the monthly statistics and analyze customer volumes for Agency Lending
- Assistance with ad-hoc data analysis and support for product and business development
- Assistance with projects around automation and efficiency improvements
- Assisting with cross training of the MFS Front Office with MFS Middle & Back Office teams
- May require flexible hours to support the Australian & NZ market or Asian markets
- Some travel may be required
- Interaction with Global AGL trading team, Operations, Client Management, Technical Sales Risk & Compliance
**Technical & Behavioral Competencies**
- Their interpersonal skills allow them to work and communicate effectively with a larger number of internal and external parties that may have different backgrounds and focus
- They maintain an improvement focus, seeking to find and implement process or workflow efficiencies whilst ensuring any change or improvement meets compliance standards and operational risk requirements
- They demonstrate maturity and judgement in their place in the team, ensuring the effective day-to-day operation of the team and the achievement of team targets. This collaborative approach to the day to day workings of the desk is crucial
- They will be autonomous if needed and recognize that skills and training will be provided by a mixture of on-the-job training and building technical knowledge.
- Given the global natur