Rajeev is the Head of Digital & Data for Asia and MENA Region at HSBC Securities Services. He has been with HSBC since 2018 and has been instrumental in pioneering HSBC Securities Services Tokenisation and Digital Assets product capabilities since 2019. He has led efforts such as HSBC’s Digital Vault, earliest tokenisation pilot for Fixed Income Securities Singapore Stock Exchange and Temasek in 2020. This was the precursor to HSBC Orion, which is now operated by HSBC Securities Services and the only tokenisation platform that is operated in two continents in Luxemburg and Hong Kong.

In 2023, he has led the HSBC’s efforts in Singapore in expanding tokenisation capabilities into Structured products and Collective Investment Schemes like Funds and ETF’s. Creating institutional grade Infrastructure for tokenisation of collective investment schemes and transforming that to creating tokenised customized personal financial advice continues to be an outcome that he works towards.

His work in developing capabilities over the last 5 years has established HSBC Securities Services as a frontrunner among service providers in the Digital Assets ecosystem. He is engaged with Clients, Financial Market Infrastructure providers to create solutions for custody, issuance and asset servicing for digital assets and tokenizing traditional assets. He believes in a future where all assets are programable assets, bringing step change in efficiencies to ecosystem and vastly increasing the total addressable market for asset services businesses.

He has also been contributing to the efforts to transform the business into a client centric Platform Solutions business. He also was the Head of Securities for ASEAN in an interim capacity in the second half of 2022.

Rajeev has a keen eye for exploring the effective adoption of emerging technologies into Securities Services and focusses on economic implications of these capabilities on post trade business models.

Prior to HSBC, he spent 10 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in various leadership positions in Global Markets Technology and Securities Operations transformation teams in Asia. He has an MBA from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He is an Amy and Richard F. Wallman Scholar at Chicago Booth. He also has a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS-Pilani in India.