How to become a financial derivatives broker

Official title: Financial derivatives broker

Also called: Financial futures broker, Ÿ Financial futures broker

Financial derivatives broker buys and sells financial derivatives on behalf of his/her clients on a commission basis. He/she executes trading activities as per clients’ instructions.

Main tasks

• Obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made
• Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange
• Informing prospective customers about market conditions and prospects
• Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery
• Monitoring the performance of their clients’ securities

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Securities/Finance broker
• Foreign exchange broker
• Commodities/Freight derivatives broker

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Questions people ask

How do I become a financial derivatives broker?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

Will AI change the work of a financial derivatives broker?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026