Internship – Fixed Income Sales and Trading (f/m/x)

For over 150 years, our dedication to being the Global Hausbank for our clients has been driven by our people – in around 60 countries and across more than 150 nationalities.

Their deep understanding, insights, expertise, and passion help our clients navigate an increasingly complex world – be it in our Corporate Bank, our Private Bank, our Investment Bank or our Asset Management division.

Together we can make a great impact for our clients home and abroad, securing their lasting success and financial security. 

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong European network. Our Corporate Finance business provides the full range of advisory and financing products and services of a leading global investment bank. Our clients include large-cap and mid-cap corporates, financial institutions, governments, government agencies and financial sponsors. We recognize that selecting the right investment banking partner can be the key to a company’s success. Our relationships are enhanced by industry sector, country, and regional expertise, closely aligned to high-quality client solutions. We offer both buyside and sell side advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, restructuring advisory, debt and equity capital raising services and structured equity transactions. We can advise on innovative cross-border and regional transactions in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
 

About the Desk

Our Fixed Income Trading Desk is one of the leading market makers in CHF bonds. We operate at the center of institutional flow trading, providing liquidity across the full spectrum from SSA/sub‑sovereigns to covered and corporate bonds. Also, the desk has the mandate for market making in Scandinavian Government bonds. Join us as an intern for a duration of 3-6 months, period during which you will gain hands‑on exposure to a fast‑paced trading floor and take ownership of analytical, technical, and market‑driven tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with traders on pricing and liquidity provision in CHF/Scandi bonds
• Assist in covering short positions via the repo market; analyze collateral efficiency and optimize financing solutions
• Produce trading levels, quotes and live market comparisons; analyze market & flows
• Monitor RFQs, flow patterns and identify anomalous or unusual flow signals

• Build Python‑/VBA‑based tools to support spread analytics, charting and relative‑value signals
• Identify efficiency gaps and implement automated micro‑workflows

• Partner with Fixed Income Sales to align on client flows, pricing and market colour
• Prepare market commentary, trade ideas and client materials
• Gain direct insight into client coverage, flow dynamics and CHF market behaviour

Skills:

• Studies in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science or Engineering
• Allowed to work in Switzerland (Student with EU residency/passport)
• Solid understanding of Fixed Income fundamentals
• Fluent in English and German
• Technical skills:  Strong Excel/VBA skills, solid Python - Bloomberg experience is beneficial
• Ability to structure information quickly and work accurately under time pressure

Benefits and wellbeing:

• Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health. Our corporate culture promotes dialogue and encourages sharing opinions and feedback (speak-up culture).
• Physically thriving: We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive.
• Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.
• Financially secure: We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.

About us and our teams: 

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – where our people have a sense of belonging and everyone feels welcomed, respected and can contribute and grow. We know that high-performing teams have different skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We collaborate, encourage and enable open dialogue and diversity of views.  We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.
 

How to apply: 

You'll find a wealth of helpful tools and information on our Employability Hub that will support you with your application, prepare for the assessment processes and adapt to a new working environment. Please visit our Careers Website to apply. 

Please include your current CV, transcripts of records (A-levels and University) and internship/employment references to your application.

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