With banks like Standard Chartered and HSBC (known to have one of the largest headcounts in the region), you must not miss this chance to secure your offer within the next 2 months.
Especially, if you’re targeting investment banking and banking 2025 summer internship or graduate roles across the UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong, keep reading on to understand which key divisions are open, how many headcounts are available, and thus which roles you must target to maximize your chance for victory.
Following its restructuring, Standard Chartered opened up several new roles across UK, HK & SG, which is promising news since the bank also provides return offers to over 40% of its interns. For 2025, SCB opened 6 internships 3 MT, all at once.
(Check my previous post on latest jobs + deadlines to apply)
Since Standard Chartered hires on rolling basis, you can't delay applications. But, before you plan your application strategy, consider these 3 major job application highlights you must know:
1️⃣ You can apply to only one department (resets after 3 months)
2️⃣ The Apt test systems Standard Chartered uses are Pymetric and SHL personality tests
3️⃣ If you clear the SHL personality test, you’ll receive a video interview invitation directly, so remember to prepare Video Interview questions in advance
Following SCB’s restructuring, there are some new teams. Here are the key divisions you can target:
🎯 Transaction Banking: This new division opened last year; focuses on developing, implementing and managing products and solutions, including Cash Man, International Trade Services, Supply Chain Financing, Operational Funding and Financial Advisory and Structure and operating funding business!
🎯 Treasury: Also a new division that opened in 2023, Asset & Liability Management, which is responsible for managing and allocating the bank’s liquidity, financing, capital and financial resources to meet regulatory requirements and the bank’s risk tolerance!
🎯 Financial Markets: Due to the split of DCM into another department this year, special attention should be paid to students applying to this department this year! The job nature will be Sales, trading and structuring of FX and Rates.
🎯 Audit (Internal Audit): Manages the entire bank’s procedures and processes to see which parts can be improved, while also monitoring the company's Operational Risk to ensure that the company meets Compliance requirements.
🎯 Corporate and Financial Institutions Coverage: Another new department this year, responsible for Corporate Banking solutions.
🎯 Global Credit Markets: This is a new department that opened this year, now split from Financial Markets for recruitment, this year it was broken down to hire people. The team specializes in Credit Team, responsible for Debt Capital Markets (which is issuing bonds as Bonds) and Syndicated loans.
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