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Internship program for Finance & Banking students in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – real work experience with global clients.
Learn, grow, and build a career with Standard Chartered's Financial Institutions Coverage team.
Financial Institutions Internship Programme 2026
When you join our Financial Institutions Coverage team, 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 & 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 institutions in your geographies. You’ll partner with a diverse client base across banking, insurance, asset management, public sector, and private equity, playing a key role in delivering solutions across financing, risk management, cash and securities, and investment strategies.
About the Internship Programme – how you’ll learn and grow
You’ll be part of a skills-first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. During the internship, you’ll work on real business challenges, develop practical skills, and learn how we support clients, facilitate trade, and finance growth across our markets.
Working with colleagues across our global network, you’ll build the confidence, experience, and connections to support your future career.
Bring the skills - we’ll help you to build your career
We’re interested in your potential, not just your degree subject. Whether you’re studying business, finance, technology, engineering or another discipline, we’re looking for people who are motivated to learn, solve problems and make an impact.
We’re looking for people who:
- Enjoy solving problems and finding better ways of doing things
- Are comfortable working with data, technology and processes
- Bring strong attention to detail while keeping the bigger picture in mind
- Build effective relationships and work well with different teams
- Stay curious, ask questions, and embrace new challenges
- Can prioritise and deliver high-quality work in a fast-moving environment
- Are interested in how clients, transactions and global markets connect
Eligibility
To apply, you should:
- Have graduated in 2026 or be due to graduate in 2027
- Be available to start the internship in August 2026
- Have the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to
Key Dates
Interviews: July 2026
Start Date: August 2026
About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
We support a wide range of clients – from local businesses to global corporations, governments, banks, and institutional investors – with their transaction banking, financial markets, and financing needs.
Serving over 20,000 clients across 54 markets, we operate in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.
Our deep local presence enables us to co-create tailored solutions and connect clients to investors, suppliers, buyers, and sellers.
Our products and services help clients move capital, manage risk, and invest to create wealth.
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 wel
- 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 Assessment
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
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