Head of FX - Singapore - Banking Circle

Description

Do you want to sit at the intersection of traditional FX markets and digital assets, building institutional-grade liquidity frameworks while navigating evolving market microstructure, regulatory environments, and 24/7 trading dynamics? Then we might have the perfect role for you

Banking Circle is a bank, fintech, and fun all in one. Every day more than one million payments run through our platform. We work closely with central banks and clients worldwide to constantly improve how money and finance flow instantly globally. Banking Circle was founded in 2013, and today we are a fully licensed bank with 800 colleagues in 11 countries. We are still growing rapidly and are on a journey to become a pioneer at the frontier of digital assets and fiat interoperability. We invite you to join us and experience a fun and international workplace, where people prefer to come to the office rather than work from home.

Exciting work is waiting for you

We are seeking an experienced Head of FX & Liquidity to join our new Digital Assets team in Singapore and/or London, reporting to our Chief Digital Assets Officer.

In this role you will get the chance to lead and scale our foreign exchange, liquidity management, and market structure capabilities for digital assets. This role is critical to ensuring deep, resilient liquidity competitive pricing, and robust risk management across spot, OTC, hedging and on/off-ramp products.

We offer a hybrid work model for our employees to allow for flexibility and productivity. However, we do expect you to spend most of your time in the office to build community and efficiency in the team.

Key responsibilities

Liquidity & Market Strategy

• Own the end-to-end liquidity strategy across FX pairs, crypto pairs, and fiat-to-crypto
• Design and manage liquidity provisioning models (internalization, external LPs, market makers, venues)
• Optimize spreads, depth, and execution quality across all supported markets
• Oversee liquidity stress testing and contingency planning for volatile market conditions

FX & Digital Asset Markets

• Lead FX trading and conversion strategy across major and emerging currencies
• Manage crypto liquidity across spot, derivatives, and structured products
• Develop pricing models that reflect real-time market conditions, funding costs, and risk
• Monitor global market structure trends and emerging venues in both FX and digital assets

Risk & Governance

• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Treasury to ensure strong controls around market, credit, and counterparty risk
• Define limits, hedging strategies, and escalation frameworks
• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Establish governance around liquidity sources, concentration risk, and dependencies

Technology & Infrastructure

• Work closely with Engineering and Product to build scalable liquidity and pricing infrastructure
• Guide integration with trading venues, liquidity providers, and prime brokers
• Champion automation, real-time monitoring, and analytics for liquidity performance

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Build and lead a high-performing FX and liquidity team
• Act as a senior stakeholder for executive leadership, clients, and external partners
• Support strategic initiatives including new market launches, products, and partnerships

Things we'll look for on your resume

To be the right candidate for this role, we expect you to have 6+ years of experience in FX trading, liquidity management, or market structure, as well as direct experience in crypto exchanges, digital assets market making, or prime brokerage. Also, you have a strong understanding or FX and digital assets markets, and you are technical fluent with trading systems, APIs, and data analytics tools.

You have a proven track record managing liquidity across high-volume, low-latency environments, and you possess deep knowledge of pricing models, execution algorithms, and market microstructure. You have already worked with regulators and compliance teams in financial services, and you are familiar with stablecoins, on/off-ramps, and cross-border payments, as well as operating in a 24/7 trading environment.

As a person, you thrive in a dynamic international environment, you are comfortable operating with a start-up mindset and collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

Banking Circle is an international company. Our internal workforce consists of over 50 nationalities, and our clients and partners are located all over the globe. Therefore, our company language is English.

Go ahead and take the first step

We look forward to hearing from you. We review applications and interview candidates continuously. Please note that we don't accept or consider CVs received through email or direct messages.

If you have questions, please reach out to Katja Linnea Serritzlew, Global Recruitment Lead on No recruitment agencies, please.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local laws, regulations and ordinances. To learn more about Banking Circle, visit us