Graduate Financial Markets UK 2025

Financial Markets Graduate 2025

Our Markets business, which is part of our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) function, provides 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 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.

About The Programme

You will be supported and launched into a banking career on a global scale through our 18-month graduate programme. During our induction, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across the Bank, creating networks that will support your career growth.

Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills. You’ll get real-world simulations and case studies that will make our training come alive. Future skill development is a key priority across the programme and your career development, as we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better.

Roles

Our industry-leading bankers will help you join one of the specialties below. As part of our assessment process, we help you learn more about the opportunities and determine which best suits your skills, attributes, and interests. Through the opportunities below, you’ll gain hands-on experience and become an integral part of the team.

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.

Research: 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 final year student, able to start full-time employment in July 2025, with the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

Exceptions

In the UK, we consider candidates requiring visa sponsorship.

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.