Malta Outscores Cyprus on AI Skills, but Trading Firms Still Hire in Cyprus
By Damian Chmiel
AI summary of the source article
Malta outranked Cyprus in youth AI readiness, yet online trading firms still post more job vacancies in Cyprus than anywhere else. Meanwhile, 23% of open roles across 77 brokers, crypto exchanges, and prop firms demanded AI skills.
Why it matters
The gap matters to an industry whose job ads increasingly ask for those skills.
Key facts
- Malta scored 75.0 and Cyprus 67.4 out of 100 on youth AI readiness in the Commonwealth-focused Ayre Index.
- On October 1, 23% of 2,557 open roles across 77 brokers, crypto exchanges, and prop firms requested AI skills.
- Cyprus topped trading firm job ads with 218 roles, ahead of the United States with 190 and Singapore with 182.
Source excerpt · Finance Magnates
Malta ranks second of 56 Commonwealth members on youth readiness for artificial intelligence and Cyprus seventh, a new index shows. Online trading firms still post more jobs in Cyprus than anywhere else, an FM Intelligence analysis published today (Thursday) found. The gap matters to an industry whose job ads increasingly ask for those skills. Of 2,557 open roles at 77 brokers, crypto exchanges an…