Global Banking Intern

Global Banking Internship Programme 2027

Our Global Banking team provides credit and advisory solutions to Corporate and Financial Institutions clients across the world. Global Banking’s comprehensive product capabilities span across loans, bonds, structured credit and advisory solutions. The solutions offered by Global Banking are catered to address a diverse set of client needs and sectors.

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

As part of our programme, you’ll be matched with one of our specialist teams based on your skills, interests, and strengths. You’ll gain hands-on experience and play a meaningful role from day one. Explore opportunities across the following areas:

• Capital Markets
• Commercial Real Estate
• Financing Solutions
• Fund Finance
• Infrastructure Development & Finance Group
• Leveraged & Acquisition Finance and Private Credit
• Transportation Finance

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
• Are curious about how businesses, markets and economies connect and grow.

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.

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