FINTECH MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA-PACIFIC FINANCIAL CENTERS WITH A FOCUS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BIG DATA PROFESSIONALS

35 34 Comparing the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Manpower Ecosystem of the Six Asia Pacific Financial Centers Table 3.1 Top 10 Employers of AI and Big Data Professionals Hong Kong Singapore Tokyo Shanghai Shenzhen Sydney HSBC DBS Bank Rakuten Trip.com Group Huawei Commonwealth Bank The University of Hong Kong National University of Singapore Amazon ByteDance Tencent Westpac The Chinese University of Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank Google SAP Morningstar University of Sydney The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Nanyang Technological University Accenture Huawei S.F. Express Co., Ltd. UNSW The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shopee IBM IBM Walmart Westpac Group Ernst & Young Google Deloitte Alibaba Group Foxconn Macquarie Group City University of Hong Kong Citi The University of Tokyo Tencent IBM University of Technology Sydney Citi UOB Microsoft Apple OPPO Woolworths Group Cathay Pacific Airways Accenture Amazon Web Services Microsoft ByteDance Optus Bank of China Hong Kong Grab Yahoo! JAPAN Ernst & Young Huawei Consumer Business Group Transport for NSW 3.2 Employers of AI and big data professionals in the finance industry We probed deeper to examine the affiliations of AI and big data professionals in the finance industry of each city. Table 3.2 depicts the top ten employers of each city. What we found is that most of the employers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Shanghai are large financial institutions with a global presence. In Shenzhen and Sydney, employers are largely leading financial institutions in the country and the region. Large financial corporations such as HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Citi have operations in multiple cities with a sizeable number of AI and big data employees in each city. Table 3.2 Top 10 Employers of AI and Big Data Professionals in the Financial Industry Hong Kong Singapore Tokyo Shanghai Shenzhen Sydney HSBC DBS Bank Nomura HSBC Morningstar Commonwealth Bank Citi Standard Chartered Bank Bloomberg LP Citi Ping An Westpac Bank of China Hong Kong Citi MUFG Ping An China Merchants Bank Westpac Group Hang Seng Bank UOB AIG KPMG China Guosen Securities Macquarie Group Morgan Stanley OCBC Bank Mizuho UBS Ping An Bank Co., Ltd. IAG Goldman Sachs Credit Suisse PayPay Corporation Standard Chartered Bank WeBank AMP DBS Bank UBS Goldman Sachs Bank of Communi- cations Co., Ltd. London HSBC NAB AIA JPMorgan Chase & Co. Morgan Stanley Fosun China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd. ANZ Standard Chartered Bank GIC MetLife Morgan Stanley Ping An Securities Company, Ltd. Suncorp Group J.P. Morgan Prudential Assurance Company Singapore AXA China UnionPay KPMG China QBE Insurance