Corporate and Institutional Banking Internship

Gain a unique insight into how relationship bankers build trusted client relationships and how they work closely with our product specialists to deliver innovative solutions for corporate and institutional clients.

Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over the course of eight to ten weeks, you'll get to:

  • Work as part of a dedicated team, focused on specific client groups across corporate and institutional clients
  • Experience first-hand how relationship bankers work with teams like Trade Finance, Cash Management, Investment Banking (including Capital Markets, and Markets and Securities Services) to grow client relationships and analyse profitability, risks and other factors involved in transactions
  • See for yourself how relationship bankers and broader coverage teams work with product partners and other HSBC functions like Legal, Credit, and Risk
  • Learn how we incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance considerations into our client solutions, ranging from sustainable supply chains to raising green bonds
  • Take responsibility for researching and understanding clients for the purposes of developing business and managing risk
  • Create client presentations for strategic meetings and pitches, prepare credit papers, analyse client information, support strategic reviews and get involved in client planning
  • Perform well and you’ll be considered for our Corporate and Institutional Banking Graduate Programme

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For: Penultimate year students
Duration: 10 weeks
Areas: Corporate and Institutional Banking or Investment Banking
Start date: May 2025 onwards

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