Commercial Banking Graduate Programme

Learn about commercial banking through a variety of roles. You could be analysing risks to provide safe lending options, advising customers on expanding their operations, or helping them to become more sustainable.

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Your HSBC journey will be built upon - and thrive with - your skills.

We know how important it is to have the right skills, both for your future and ours. By building this skillset now, we’ll help you develop the agility to keep learning new skills throughout your career.

Over the course of 18 months, you’ll get to:

  • See how we connect businesses to opportunities through our Relationship Managers and digital capabilities
  • Rotate between Relationship Management teams that work directly with our clients, or Credit Analyst teams that analyse companies’ creditworthiness and provide them with lending solutions
  • Build your own relationships with clients to better understand their needs, and support Relationship Managers in pitching for new business
  • See the bigger picture by working with teams in other areas like Global Trade (providing services and finance for buyers and suppliers), Product Management (creating new digital services to improve our customer experience) and support functions like Risk (developing policies and processes to protect us and our clients)
  • Explore the Commercial Bank’s wide-ranging opportunities to progress your career – both locally and internationally – including the chance to become one of our leaders of the future.

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For: Final year students or recent graduates
Duration: Eighteen months
Areas: Commercial Banking
Start date: July 2025 onwards

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