Singapore's Leading Proprietary Trading Firm

Markets are
information problems.

We solve them with technology — systematically, precisely, and at our own risk.

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01 / About

Built on edge.
Driven by precision.

Genk Capital is a proprietary trading firm founded in Singapore — built here, run here, and accountable to no one but the market.

Every position is ours. Our models, our capital, our risk. When we're right, the market tells us immediately. When we're wrong, there is nowhere to hide. That accountability is not a burden. It is the point.

We trade our own capital across equities, commodities, and digital assets — providing liquidity, capturing inefficiencies, and improving price discovery in markets across the region and beyond.

Technology is our foundation. Intellectual honesty is our standard. Integrity is non-negotiable.

Founded Singapore
Capital Proprietary
Approach Systematic · Multi-Asset
Markets Global
External AUM None.
02 / How We Think

Trading is as much art as it is science.

Most firms pick one. We don't. The edge lives at the intersection.

01 — The Science

Rigour without compromise.

A trade without evidence is a bet. We don't bet. Every position begins with a hypothesis, survives rigorous testing, and earns its place in the book. We are precise about what we know, and ruthlessly honest about what we don't.

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02 — The Art

Creativity is edge.

Data tells you what happened. It rarely tells you why. The edge lives in that gap — the choice of dataset, the framing of the question, the instinct that something is mispriced and the patience to understand exactly why.

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Rigour without creativity is slow. Creativity without rigour is gambling. We hire for both.

03 / What We Do

Edge from multiple sources.

We deploy capital across strategies and asset classes — built in-house, run on proprietary infrastructure, never shared with outside capital. The results speak in the market every day.

01 Market Making +

We stand ready to buy and sell, continuously, across the markets we operate in. The spread is our compensation for absorbing risk in real time. Do it well and the market becomes more liquid, more efficient, and harder to manipulate.

02 Arbitrage +

Prices that should be equal sometimes aren't. We find those moments, act on them, and in doing so push prices back toward where they belong. The window is always closing. Speed and precision are everything.

03 Quantitative Strategies +

Every model we run was built here, tested here, and is understood completely by the people running it. We don't use black boxes. We build them. And we know exactly what's inside.

04 Event-Driven +

Markets misprice events. Earnings surprises, corporate actions, macro shifts — the moment of repricing is brief and the preparation is everything. We do the work before the event so we can act while others are still reading the headline.

04 / Why Genk

A firm where the best idea wins.

We outthink the largest institutions — by staying honest with ourselves, moving faster, and being willing to be wrong before they've even noticed. Small nations survive by being sharper than everyone around them. This firm was built in Singapore. The mentality is the same.

We are building something that lasts. If that's what you're looking for, we should talk.

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No Hierarchy

The best idea wins, regardless of who says it. Junior team members challenge senior traders freely, and they are expected to. The market is the only judge — and it doesn't care about your title.

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Intellectual Rigour

We question everything — including ourselves. Being wrong is data. Staying wrong is unacceptable.

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Skin in the Game

Every person here sees the direct impact of their work in the markets, every single day. That is not a perk. It is the expectation.

05 / Opportunities

We don't hire backgrounds.
We hire minds.

We need the kind of person who finds a problem and cannot leave it alone — who reads the answer and immediately asks why, who treats being wrong as data rather than failure. The asset class can be learned. The thinking cannot. Some of our best traders started as engineers. Finance experience is irrelevant.

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Engineers

The trading floor runs on what you build. Latency you shave, pipelines you design, systems you harden under pressure — these are the margins that determine whether we win or lose. If you want your work to matter in real time, every day, build here.

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Quantitative Researchers

You will build strategies from scratch, break the ones that don't work, and defend the ones that do — with data, not conviction. A strong foundation in mathematics is essential. Intellectual honesty is non-negotiable. The rest we can teach.

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Traders

We don't hire traders. We develop them. When the market is open, they do one thing: execute with total precision. When it's closed, they do something harder — figure out how to be better tomorrow. If you see every trade as a test of your model of the world, this is your environment.

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All positions full-time · Onsite · Singapore

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06 / Beyond Trading

Building a better society,
one person at a time.

Tan Kah Kee built schools because he believed education was the longest lever a person could pull on the world. That belief shaped ours.

The Genk Capital Scholarship does not go to the best student. It goes to the student who has improved the most — and who is already thinking about how to pass that on. Resilience is the quality we back here, because it is the quality that compounds.

Some of the best people we know didn't start with advantages. They started with determination. That's enough.

For application details, please contact NTU's University Advancement Office (UAO) directly.

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We do not award this scholarship to the highest achiever. We award it to the person who has grown the most.

The Genk Capital Scholarship — NTU College of Engineering