About the Company

Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group with a strong presence across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Headquartered in London, the bank has a history spanning over 160 years and focuses on connecting clients to opportunities in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets.Standard Chartered provides a wide range of corporate, commercial, institutional, and retail banking services, including corporate and investment banking, transaction banking, financial markets, and wealth management. The bank is known for its deep expertise in emerging markets, strong global network, and client-focused approach.

With a strong emphasis on ethical banking, sustainability, and responsible growth, Standard Chartered plays an important role in supporting economic development, trade, and investment across its markets. The organisation also places high value on talent development, diversity, and inclusion, making it a respected employer for graduates and professionals pursuing careers in global banking and finance.

About the Internship Programme

When you join the Standard Chartered Client Coverage Internship Programme, you’ll collaborate across teams to solve problems, spot opportunities, and deliver sustainable outcomes - for clients and for the Bank. With our unique global footprint, your work will have reach and relevance, partnering with governments, financial institutions, corporations, and investors on projects that shape the future of finance. Globally, our Client Coverage teams are part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function, managing and developing our client relationships. We work across the global network together with our product partners to deliver working capital, financing, trade, cash and financial markets solutions for our clients. 

Join us if you want to work with some of the most influential local and global corporates in your geographies. You’ll get the opportunity to work with lots of different teams within the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business function and more broadly across the Bank.  
 

The programme will support your skills development:   

• A structured induction and orientation
• Classroom learning on our products, platforms and business 
• On-the-job training and technical seminars 
• Support from managers, mentors and buddies 
• Networking events with senior leaders 
• Opportunities to contribute to community initiatives.  

Where you could work

You’ll be placed into one of the following teams: 

• Corporate Coverage: Partnering with top-tier multinational, local and middle-market clients to deliver tailored banking solutions – from cash management, and trade financing to lending, capital markets, and advisory services.   
• Financial Institutions Coverage: Partnering with a diverse client base across banking, insurance, asset management, public sector, and private equity.  The team plays a key role in delivering solutions across financing, risk management, cash and securities, and investment strategies.  

Internship Requirements:

We believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from All degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll have:  

• Strong academic performance and extracurricular involvement. 
• The ability to work in a team with agility and resilience. 
• Ability to think analytically with strong attention to detail. 
• A passion for dynamic, fast-paced environments. 
• Excellent project management and communication skills. 
• The permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to (South Africa)
• You must be a penultimate year student and available to intern in June 2026* and start full-time in July 2027.