FX Strategist (Emerging Markets)

Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced FX Strategist with deep expertise across Emerging Market currencies to join our global Trading & Treasury team. This role will focus on developing FX pricing strategies, analysing market trends, identifying trading opportunities, and providing actionable insights to support our FX trading, treasury, and cross-border payments businesses.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience covering Emerging Market FX, including LATAM, Asian, or African currencies, with a strong understanding of market microstructure, liquidity dynamics, NDFs, derivatives, and institutional FX markets. Whether from a global bank, proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, fintech, or payments business, you should possess a strong market instinct and be able to identify pricing inefficiencies, liquidity opportunities, and market signals.
Working closely with our FX Traders, Treasury, and Product teams, you will help optimise pricing, improve execution strategies, and support the continued expansion of our global payments business.
Key Responsibilities
Market Strategy & Analysis
Develop market views and FX strategies across Emerging Market currencies, with coverage across LATAM, Asia and/or Africa.
Monitor macroeconomic developments, central bank policy, geopolitical events and market sentiment to identify trading and pricing opportunities.
Analyse market signals, liquidity dynamics and capital flows to provide actionable insights to the trading team.
Pricing & Trading Strategy
Partner closely with FX Traders to optimise pricing, execution strategies and hedging decisions.
Analyse pricing competitiveness, market liquidity and transaction costs to improve execution quality across payment corridors.
Evaluate opportunities across spot, forwards, NDFs, swaps and other FX derivatives.
Quantitative Research & Analytics
Develop quantitative models, analytical tools and dashboards to support FX pricing, forecasting and market decision-making.
Analyse historical market data, volatility, order flow and execution performance to identify trends and pricing opportunities.
Research systematic signals and data-driven approaches to enhance trading and pricing strategies.
Cross-functional Collaboration
Work closely with Trading, Treasury, Product and Engineering teams to enhance FX pricing capabilities and support the launch of new currencies and payment corridors.
Provide market expertise to support strategic initiatives, liquidity expansion and product development across the global payments business.
Vision & Mission
OSL is the first SFC-licensed digital asset platform in Hong Kong and a PayFi innovator. Through stablecoin payments, cross-border settlement and global licensing, we are building the next-generation payments network. Stablecoins have become everyday money across emerging markets and are widely viewed as blockchain’s “killer app,” with industry focus shifting from token issuance to real-world consumer and enterprise payment adoption. The strongest growth lies in cross-border B2B payments, where providers embedding stablecoins into corporate settlement flows can capture significant volume and float. Long-term defensibility comes from regulatory licences, banking partners and cross-border corridors.
OSL holds or has acquired licences in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Bermuda and Indonesia, and is expanding into Europe, Brazil, Southeast Asia and Africa through acquisitions and licence applications. With OSL Pay and StableX, we embed stablecoin settlement into bank accounts and card networks, support 150+ digital assets, and provide 24/7 fiat–stablecoin conversion. As a regulated pioneer with a startup mindset, we believe the future of payments will be driven by real adoption and scalable deployment, not technology narratives. We welcome builders who are passionate about crypto and payments to join us in shaping

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