For: Rising senior undergraduates

Duration: 10 Weeks

Areas: Corporate and Institutional Banking or Investment Banking

Location: New York City, NY

Start date: June 2025 onwards

Overview

Gain experience working with major government, corporate, and institutional clients, as either a relationship or investment banker, providing tailored financial solutions to help them raise debt or equity, or to advise on negotiating a merger or an acquisition.

What you’ll do

• You’ll work with a dedicated team focused on specific transactions, products, or market sectors in your region, interacting with other Global Banking teams around the world, to deliver the best strategic solutions based on our clients’ needs.
• You’ll have the opportunity to work within one of our core client-facing teams, such as Advisory and Investment Banking Coverage, Capital Markets, Real Assets, and Structured Finance or Issuer Services.
• You’ll prepare and review materials used in delivering our tailored financial and advisory solutions to clients, including investment documentation, management presentations, and pitchbooks by thoroughly researching market conditions, current events and future developments.
• You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how various types of financial models are used for mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing transactions.
• Perhaps most importantly for your long-term career, a strong performance during your internship, could lead to the opportunity to join our Global Banking Graduate Program.

Who you are

• You’re intellectually curious and have a keen interest in financial markets. You prioritize with ease and commit yourself fully to tasks.
• You learn fast and thrive working in a fast-moving environment that can demand challenging outputs and timelines.
• Details don’t escape your attention. Teamwork and collaboration are how you work. Communicating clearly and concisely is how you make your views and opinions known.
• You’re a strategic and logical thinker that likes to analyze data and situations.

What you’ll learn

• You’ll start with an introduction to financial markets that will give you a better understanding of product overviews, the corporate lifecycle, modelling, valuation, accounting fundamentals and further financial analysis relevant to your team.
• You’ll receive training specific to the team you work with, that will build your market and industry knowledge, as well as the necessary core analytical skills. And you’ll learn how we work closely with clients to understand their long-term strategic goals and deliver tailored financial and advisory solutions. You’ll join our Speaker Series to meet with Senior bankers and learn about our different teams and the breadth of our coverage and clients.
• By the end of your internship, you’ll have improved your Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills and be more confident in your analysis, presentation and visualization skills.

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. Our global businesses serve around 39 million customers worldwide through a network that covers 62 countries and territories. Our customers range from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies, governments and international organizations. We aim to connect them to opportunities and help them to achieve their ambitions.