Director, Digital Assets & Currencies (DAC) - Markets & Securities Services (MSS)

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Global Markets is part of our HSBC Corporate and Institutional Banking division, a markets-led, financing-focused business that provides investment and financial solutions. Our Markets business is one of the largest of its kind in the world. It combines sophisticated 24-hour global coverage with a detailed knowledge of local markets. Our services are offered both online and offline in 58 countries and territories. We specialise in foreign exchange, credits and rates, structured derivatives, equities and debt, equity and equity-linked capital markets.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Director, Digital Assets & Currencies (DAC) - Markets & Securities Services (MSS).

Role purpose

This Director, Digital Assets & Currencies will work with the Head of Digital Assets & Currencies to help shape and execute HSBC’s Digital Assets & Currencies (DAC) agenda—a core pillar underpinning the future growth of Markets & Securities Services (MSS) and a key enabler of future growth across Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).

The role will help translate strategic ambition into enterprise execution: driving alignment across businesses, turning priorities into a clear and actionable roadmap, and accelerating the development of client propositions in digital assets and currencies, while ensuring alignment with the target operating model and control expectations.

The role will also play a key role in bringing together the bank’s digital assets and digital currencies agenda across MSS, Global Payments Solutions and the wider CIB franchise, helping to shape a coherent strategic narrative, support joined-up client engagement and drive alignment of priorities across the business.

Reporting & key relationships

• Reports to: Head of Digital Assets & Currencies (MD), MSS
• Works in close partnership with: Digital Currencies team (GPS) to support a unified CIB DAC strategy (given joint ownership of the overall DAC strategy across CIB)
• Key stakeholders: MSS asset class/product leads (e.g., Securities Services), GPS, CIB client-facing teams, Operations/COO, Risk & Compliance, Technology, country teams (e.g., Hong Kong), and external partners/market infrastructure participants

Key responsibilities

1) Strategy & execution support

• Support the Head of Digital Assets and the DAC business in shaping, socialising, and executing the bank’s DAC strategy across MSS and wider CIB.
• Translate strategic priorities and emerging opportunities into clear workstreams, milestones, success measures and delivery plans; track progress and help unblock execution.
• Work cross-functionally with business and digital teams to advance the DAC strategy
• Prepare high-quality content, materials and a consistent strategic narrative for internal and external engagement, including for senior management, clients, regulators and strategic partners

2) Enterprise collaboration & alignment

• Drive alignment and collaboration with internal stakeholders on the DAC strategy and transformation agenda, including (but not limited to) aforementioned key stakeholders and group partners.
• Join up capabilities across digital assets and digital currencies to help maximise commercial impact and support cross-sell opportunities across MSS, GPS and wider CIB
• Proactively identify and resolve cross-business dependencies, overlaps, and decision points to maintain momentum and clarity of ownership.

3) Client proposition development & roadmap transparency

• Support the DAC team in developing and refining client propositions, maintaining a transparent development roadmap that addresses client needs and market opportunities, with a focus on digital assets and custody, as well as broader digital currencies opportunities
• Support the DAC team to gather client insights from internal stakeholders, prioritise use cases, and shape proposition narratives and go-to-market readiness.

4) Roadmap alignment with product and country delivery

• Work closely with existing product leads and COOs in relevant asset classes (e.g., Securities Services) to ensure country delivery (e.g., Hong Kong) aligns to:
• Global strategy and priorities
• Target operating model
• Control expectations and risk appetite alignment

5) Technology strategy & external partnerships

• Help shape the technology platform strategy, including decisions on building, buying and partnering to support the DAC agenda.
• Engage with external providers and market infrastructure participants, and manage relationships as required (in coordination with relevant governance and procurement processes) to help progress strategic priorities

Candidate profile

Essential skills & experience

• Strong experience in digital assets, digital custody, tokenisation, digital currencies, or adjacent markets/financial services domains.
• Proven ability to operate in a strategy-to-execution role: turning ambiguous priorities into structured plans, roadmaps, and deliverables.
• Demonstrable track record of cross-functional stakeholder management across product, technology, operations, risk/compliance, and front office.
• Solid understanding of technology platforms and ecosystem partnering models in financial services.
• Strong communication skills—able to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple franchises, able to develop clear narratives and high-quality materials for senior internal and external audience

Desirable attributes

• Experience supporting enterprise-wide transformation and/or change management in a complex global organisation.
• Experience with fund tokenization and custody, and Securities Serivces (SSv) domain knowledge would be an advantage but isn’t essential.
• Comfort operating in a fast-evolving environment with shifting external market and regulatory dynamics.
• Commitment aligned to HSBC values: We Value Difference, We Succeed Together, We Take Responsibility, We Get It Done.

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