Security Tokens Research Analyst - Internship

Kaiko is a rapidly growing fintech start up in the digital assets industry with an international presence. Our mission is to be the bedrock of the new digital finance economy, which promises to expand financial opportunity and inclusion. We do this by empowering market participants with accurate, transparent, and actionable digital assets data to be leveraged for a range of market activities including strategy backtesting, in-depth research, valuation, analytics, and integrations.

What We Do

• We unify digital assets data feeds in financial markets across 100+ crypto spot and derivatives exchanges off-chain and on-chain defi protocols, serving as a single access point for market information.
• We provide the most granular trade, quotes, and aggregated datasets in the industry
• We deliver historical and real-time, consumable and regulatory compliant data to clients through a robust platform
• We publish weekly data-driven reports and analyses read by industry professionals.
• We partner with best in class institutions such as Bloomberg and Deutsche Börse.

Who We Are

We’re a team of (60+) passionate individuals located in Paris, New-York, London and Singapore with a deep interest in building and innovating in the digital finance economy. We’re proud of Kaiko’s talented team and continue our commitment to international representation and diversity in the workspace.

Also, at Kaiko our values are important to us as they are the foundation of our continued success. You can read more about our company’s values along with our mission and achievements so far here.

Are you ready to join us?

The Challenge:

As an intern in the on-chain team, under the lead of the MD on-chain market data and in collaboration with team members (on-chain project manager, senior block chain developer), your contribution will be key in:

• Mapping and vetting data needs in financial markets with regards to tokenized financial instruments (equities, structured products, bonds, derivatives) across their lifecycle. This mapping is done by analyzing the lifecycle of financial instruments (pre trade, post trade, regulatory reporting) based on market practice, main master agreements (such as ISDA, ICMA, etc) and applicable regulation (such as MiFID RTS in the EU)
• Mapping and analyzing planned and existing laws and regulations related to tokenized financial instruments in the US, Europe and APAC
• Contribute to build the functional, business and contractual framework of Kaiko data oracle offer in financial markets
• Contribute to identify potential partners and clients for the Kaiko’s data oracle offer in financial markets
• Market watch

About You:

• Demonstrated knowledge on financial market data business and environment
• Demonstrated knowledge on financial markets instruments and infrastructures with an end to end understanding of the lifecycle of at least one type of financial instrument (equities, structured products, bonds, derivatives)
• Demonstrated knowledge or strong interest in with demonstrated ability to upskill on blockchain based operations (L1, L2, applications, oracles, smart contracts)
• Ability to embrace a variety of topics: regulatory, business, technical
• Ability to upskill
• Analytical, curious, at ease both with qualitative and quantitative approaches
• Communication: writing and verbal, English, German would be a plus
• Master 2 in Banking, capital markets, financial technology, financial data management
• At least one prior internship in a relevant company with regards to this job description. Experience in securitization or back-office would be an advantage

What we offer:

• An attractive compensation package
• An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities
• Opportunity to work with an internationally diverse team
• Good perks (remote friendly, meal vouchers and multiple team events)

Talent Acquisition Process:

• Interview with the Talent Acquisition team
• Call with the Hiring Manager
• Cross team interviews with 2-3 team members

Interested? Write a short letter to tell us why you’d be a good fit for this opportunity and why you’d like to join Kaiko. Please send your letter, along with your CV to us.

As our working language is English, we would appreciate it if you send us your application and accompanying documents in English.

Diversity & Inclusion:

At Kaiko, we believe in the diversity of thought because we appreciate that this makes us stronger. Therefore, we encourage applications from everyone who can offer their unique experience to our collective achievements.