Our Financial Markets team helps clients navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and manage risk across asset classes. From foreign exchange and interest rates to debt securities and commodities, we deliver bespoke solutions that power global trade and investment. Financial Markets sits at the heart of our Corporate and Investment Banking business, connecting clients to the capital they need and the opportunities that drive growth.
About the Internship Programme – how you’ll learn and grow
Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. Over 10 weeks, you’ll work on real business challenges, build future-ready skills, and gain insight into how we support clients, facilitate trade and finance growth across our markets. Working alongside colleagues across our global network, you’ll develop the skills, confidence and connections to accelerate your career. For many interns, this is the first step towards a graduate role with us.
The programme will support your development through:
A 10-week summer internship
A structured induction and orientation
Exposure to our products, clients and international network
Real projects and meaningful responsibilities from day one
Technical, professional and behavioural skills development
Support from managers, mentors and buddies
Opportunities to learn from senior leaders and industry experts
Community and volunteering initiatives.
Where you could work
During the assessment process, we’ll help you explore which of the following areas best match your strengths and interests, and you will work across two of the following:
Sales: Build trusted relationships with institutional clients and deliver investment strategies tailored to their goals. Collaborate across teams to execute trades and manage risk.
Trading: Make markets and manage positions across asset classes. Use data, analytics, and instinct to navigate volatility and drive performance.
Structuring: Design and price complex financial products. Combine quantitative modelling with commercial insight to deliver innovative client solutions.
Financing Risk: Structure and distribute financing deals that support sustainable growth. Manage risk exposure and ensure regulatory alignment.
Research: Deliver differentiated insights across macroeconomics, FX, credit, ESG, commodities, and geopolitics. Help clients and internal stakeholders make smarter decisions.
Macro Portfolio Risk Management, Modelling and Analytics, Product Team & XVA: Join teams that work on risk analytics, quantitative modelling, product assessments and valuation adjustments. Work involves data analysis, scenario work, product review and supporting pricing or risk methodologies.
Bring the skills – we’ll help you build your career
We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.
We’re looking for people who can:
Take ownership, show initiative and are willing to learn
Think critically and solve problems using logic, analysis and sound judgement
Learn quickly, stay curious and seek opportunities to grow and develop
Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others
Adapt and perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment
Show curiosity about financial markets, current affairs and the forces shaping the global economy.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this internship, you should be a penultimate year student, able to intern in June 2027, and start full time in July 2028. You should have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.
You can only submit one application within a six-month period, so take time to review our opportunities and apply for the role that best fits your interests, skills and career goals.
Exceptions
UK & UAE: Candidates requiring visa sponsorship will be considered.
UAE: Priority is given to UAE nationals.
Key Dates
Assessment Centres: October 2026 onwards
Start Date: June 2027, April in India
About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
We are a super-connector for many of the world’s largest companies across more than 50 markets, playing a central role in global trade, capital flows and economic growth. We work with governments, financial institutions, and some of the world’s most ambitious corporates to help them expand, invest, and navigate uncertainty across increasingly complex and fast-changing markets.
What makes us distinctive is our combination of deep local expertise with an extensive and unique global network. We support clients across risk management, financing, transaction services, advisory, and sustainable finance, helping move capital to where it’s needed most and supporting the real economy across our footprint.
