{"id":7699,"date":"2021-08-04T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levin.com.hk\/%e6%9c%aa%e5%88%86%e9%a1%9e\/bankers-expect-bigger-bonuses-in-2022-as-financial-sector-goes-on-asia-hiring-spree\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:51:12","slug":"bankers-expect-bigger-bonuses-in-2022-as-financial-sector-goes-on-asia-hiring-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levin.com.hk\/zh-hant\/blog-zh-hant\/bankers-expect-bigger-bonuses-in-2022-as-financial-sector-goes-on-asia-hiring-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers expect bigger bonuses in 2022 as financial sector goes on Asia hiring spree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Financial services professionals in Asia are confident they will receive bigger bonuses in 2022 as banks and other institutions scramble to attract and retain talent in Asia, according to headhunting firm Selby Jennings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bonus payouts this year, particularly in Asia, did not reflect the exceptional profits banks produced in 2020 as trading volumes surged despite the economic slowdown from the\u00a0coronavirus pandemic<\/span>, according to Abimanu Jeyakumar, head of North Asia at Selby Jennings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As regional economies recover, banks are making big bets on Asia and seeking to hire at a pace Jeyakumar said he has not seen in the past decade. As a result, financial sector workers \u2013 many who took a haircut for their 2020 work \u2013 are expecting to be paid.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been new expatriate talent. There hasn\u2019t been huge graduate hiring programmes. There hasn\u2019t been that middle layer of associates, analysts and VPs coming through,\u201d Jeyakumar said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen are performers that are unhappy need to be compensated exceptionally well in 2022 in order for the banks to expect to keep them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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About 45 per cent of financial services employees surveyed said they expect to receive a pay increase next year, compared with only 7 per cent saying they were very likely to receive a pay increase in last year\u2019s survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That followed more than half of respondents in Asia not receiving a bonus last year, Selby Jennings found. The survey, conducted in April and May, interviewed 190 financial services professionals in the Asia-Pacific region, with the bulk of respondents in Singapore and Hong Kong.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Banks are targeting rising wealth in Asia, particularly in the Greater Bay Area<\/span><\/a> by adding staff and expanding their product offerings. The hiring spree also comes as Beijing further opens up its domestic financial sector to foreign firms.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For example, HSBC<\/span> plans to\u00a0add 5,000 wealth managers<\/span> over the next five years as part of a US$6 billion investment in Asia, including targeting wealthy clients in Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Standard Chartered<\/span> plans to\u00a0triple it income from the bay area and boost its headcount over the next five years, while Citigroup plans to\u00a0hire up to 1,700 people<\/span>\u00a0across its businesses in Hong Kong as it seeks to tap increasing capital flows between the city and mainland China. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Goldman Sachs<\/span>\u00a0and Credit Suisse are among other banks expanding their staff in the region.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The result has boosted compensation packages for new hires and led to an increase in counter-offers from a typical 20 per cent of prior pay to about 80 per cent for candidates the headhunter has placed, Jeyakumar said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe banks cannot afford to lose revenue-producing members of their teams,\u201d Jeyakumar said. \u201cThe market competition for talent is so high, that potentially every process that we\u2019re working on is a bidding war for talent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source : SCMP<\/span><\/p>\n

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