Global Markets Internship

Work with a variety of teams to gain experience in Sales and Trading and learn about different asset classes and product types, algorithmic trading, and how various dynamics drive markets.

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 with a mix of Sales and Trading desks to help advise clients on their portfolios
  • Expand your knowledge of the products within our key asset classes such as Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets Rates and Commodities; Global Debt Markets; Equities; and Securities Financing
  • Assist in an analytical project or help to build new tools that support our trading desk

At the end of the internship successful candidates will have the opportunity to advance to our Graduate programme.

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For: Penultimate year students
Duration: 10 weeks
Areas: Markets - Sales and Trading
Start date: May 2025 onwards

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