Intern Financial Markets Philippines 2025

Markets Intern 2025

Our Markets business is part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function. We provide clients with risk management, financing and investment expertise, through bespoke solutions across asset classes and building trusted relationships in various industries and sectors.

We provide clients with an in-depth knowledge of local markets as well as our global product expertise to offer the best financial solutions. We also offer access to a wide range of currency markets, local market information, efficient risk management strategies, and capital raising as well as liquidity management solutions for our clients.

Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered Bank gives you the opportunity to be more. You can be more innovative, empowered, and impactful and take your career as far as you want it to go. We’re a place where ambition meets impact, which means you’ll be able to work on challenging projects, learn new skills and make a meaningful difference to the world.

We support local and large corporations, governments, banks and investors with their transaction banking, financial markets and borrowing needs.

We provide solutions to more than 20,000 clients in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors. Our clients operate or invest across 50 markets across the globe.

Our strong and deep local presence enables us to help co-create bespoke financing solutions and connect our clients multilaterally to investors, suppliers, buyers and sellers.

Our products and services enable our clients to move capital, manage risk and invest to create wealth. Our clients represent a large and important part of the economies we serve. CIB is at the heart of the Group’s purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

About The Programme

Our 10-week Internship Programme gives you the opportunity to gain first-hand experience working on real-world problems, hone your skills, create lasting relationships, gain insights, and discover your strengths. Throughout the programme, you'll acquire the skills for immediate success, as well as understand what's required for the future as our industry and your career evolve. A strong performance on the programme could lead to a graduate job offer.

What You’ll Experience

Through this immersive programme, you'll learn about our CIB products, how they’re structured, how we manage varying risk types, and the processes and people needed to support our clients. You’ll also experience:

• A one-day orientation introducing you to the bank and your fellow interns
• Four days of classroom instruction to learn about our products, our business, and our bankers
• On-the-job training and technical seminars to support your learning
• Performance reviews and support of managers, mentors, and buddies
• Presentations by senior management (speaker series) and engagement with executive management
• Networking within the CIB business function and across divisions
• Engaging in community service
  
  

Interns will perform two rotations from the following areas: Sales, Trading, Structuring and Research.

Sales develop and maintain relationships with institutional clients and pitch investment strategies that meet their needs. They work across teams to develop and execute orders, bringing knowledge of asset classes, clients, market trends, and risk management.

Traders make market positions and buy and sell securities on behalf of clients and the Bank. To navigate market dynamics and balance profit and risk considerations, excellent mathematical skills are necessary.

Structuring specialises in modelling and complex asset classes and creating, pricing, and marketing complicated products to clients. From marketing strategies to trade execution, they partner with sales and trading colleagues.

Business Platforms and Partnerships are responsible for the development, commercialisation, delivery and implementation of financial market products to support revenue growth.

Our research roles provide data-driven investment opportunities, market insights, and risk management advice to the trading floor through in-depth analysis and insight across assets and markets.

Eligibility

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We’re looking for team players with excellent academic achievements and extracurricular activities, agile multi-taskers who can handle pressure, analytical minds with numeracy and attention to detail, and enjoyment of fast paced, dynamic environments . Our more technical positions will suit individuals with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Statistical proficiency.

You’ll be a penultimate year student, able to intern in June 2025* and start full time employment in July 2026, with the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to .

Exceptions  

• In UK and UAE, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship. In UAE, priority is given to UAE nationals.
• For US Graduate roles, we will not consider applicants seeking Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) employment. 
• Internships in India start in April
  
  

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