Global Markets Internship Programme 2027 

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 youll learn and grow  

Join a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background.  Over 10 weeks, youll 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, youll 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 developmen
• 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, well 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 - well help you build your career 

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.

Were 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 youre 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.

Key Dates

• Assessment Centres: October 2026 onwards
• Start Date: June 2027
  
  
  

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)  

We are a super-connector for many of the worlds 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 worlds 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 its needed most and supporting the real economy across our footprint.

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers