Client Coverage Internship Programme - 2026

When you join our Client Coverage team, youll collaborate across teams to solve problems, spot opportunities, and deliver sustainable outcomes - for clients and for the Bank. With our unique global footprint, your work will have reach and relevance, partnering with governments, financial institutions, corporations, and investors on projects that shape the future of finance. 
Globally, our Client Coverage teams are part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function, managing and developing our client relationships. We work across the global network together with our product partners to deliver working capital, financing, trade, cash and financial markets solutions for our clients.  
 
Join us if you want to work with some of the most influential local and global corporates in your geographies. Youll get the opportunity to work with lots of different teams within the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business function and more broadly across the Bank.  

About the Internship Programme how youll learn and grow

Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background.  Youll get the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals, tackle real business challenges, and discover what its like to be part of a global organisation. Youll build valuable skills, contribute to innovative projects, and form connections to last throughout your career. Many interns go on to join us as graduates - this could be where your journey begins. 

The programme will support your skills development:  

   10-week summer internship 
   A structured induction and orientation 
   Classroom learning on our products, platforms and business 
   Support from managers, mentors and buddies 
   Networking events with senior leaders 
   Opportunities to contribute to community initiatives. 

Key date

   Start Date: June 2026.  

Bring the skills and well help you to build your career

Bring the skills and well help you to build your career 

We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Youll have:  

   Strong academic performance and extracurricular involvement. 
   The ability to work in a team with agility and resilience. 
   Ability to think analytically with strong attention to detail. 
   A passion for dynamic, fast-paced environments. 
   Excellent project management and communication skills. 
   The permanent legal right to work in the country youre applying to. 
   You must be a penultimate year student and available to intern in June 2026* and start full-time in July 2027.  

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.