Apprentice Corporate & Investment Banking India 2026

Corporate & Investment Banking Apprentice - India  

Our 12 Months Apprenticeship Programme is designed to give you real responsibility from day one and the opportunity to build your skills in one of the world’s most dynamic areas of banking.  

In Corporate & Investment Banking, we support some of the world’s largest companies, financial institutions and investors. You’ll contribute to work that helps our clients move money, manage risk, raise capital and grow their businesses across some of the world’s most dynamic markets.  

You won’t just observe how a global bank operates – you'll help power it. In Technology and Operations, you sit at the heart of how we deliver for our clients each day. You’ll work on live processes, support real transactions and help ensure our clients’ needs are met accurately, effectively, and safely.   

Throughout the programme, you’ll:  

• Take ownership of meaningful work and contribute to real client and business priorities  
• Build your commercial awareness and understanding of global markets and businesses  
• Develop analytical and problem-solving skills by working with data and complex information  
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams, functions and markets 
• Strengthen your communication and stakeholder management skills  
• Gain exposure to senior leaders and thought-leadership sessions 

By the end of the year, you’ll have built practical skills, gained experience of working in a global business and developed a clearer understanding of where a career in Corporate & Investment Banking could take you.  

Bring the skills - we’ll help you build your career   

We welcome students from all degree disciplines and backgrounds, recognising that diverse perspectives drive innovation.  

We’re looking for people who can:   

• Take ownership and demonstrate initiative.   
• Think critically and solve problems in a structured way.   
• Learn quickly and adapt to new challenges, seeking opportunities to grow and develop   
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with others   
• Communicate confidently and collaborate across different cultures and backgrounds.  
• Demonstrate commercial curiosity and an interest in global markets, industries and clients.   
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced and international environment.  
   
  

For technical roles, we particularly value backgrounds in Finance & Banking, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics and Statistics.

Eligibility     

To be eligible for this apprenticeship programme, you need to have graduated from college in 2026. 

You can only submit one application within a six-month period, so take time to review our opportunities and apply for the role that best fits your interests, skills and career goals.

About our Corporate & Investment Banking Team

We are a super-connector for many of the world’s largest companies across more than 50 markets, playing a central role in global trade, capital flows and economic growth. We work with governments, financial institutions, and some of the world’s most ambitious corporates to help them expand, invest, and navigate uncertainty across increasingly complex and fast-changing markets. 

What makes us distinctive is our combination of deep local expertise with an extensive and unique global network. We support clients across risk management, financing, transaction services, advisory, and sustainable finance, helping move capital to where it’s needed most and supporting the real economy across our footprint. 

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 well
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers