Capital Markets Intern 2024

Mizuho Financial Group

Sep 25, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Banking & Finance
London

Requirements

The Primary Debt Markets team in conjunction with Mizuho’s European Loan Capital Markets department is part of an integrated primary markets platform that provides a cohesive Loan and Bond offering to Mizuho’s clients and valuable insight into Bridge-Bond opportunities.
To join our team, you must have a passion for financial services and preferably have demonstrated this via your chosen field of study. We also accept applications from candidates with strong academics in any degree discipline who can demonstrate an aptitude for financial services. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate our core values of winning spirit, inspiring trust and diversity of thought.
Our interns will gain experience in debt capital markets solutions and origination over a 10 week period with a view to being offered a position on the Mizuho 2025 Graduate Programme, commencing September 2025.
Applicants to the Mizuho 2024 Intern Programme will ideally be in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and be available for permanent employment from September 2025.

Responsibilities

The FI DCM team’s primary role is to provide debt financing solutions and balance sheet strategic and advisory services for Mizuho Financial Group’s global financial institution (banks and non-banks) client base, in both public and private markets. FI DCM is responsible for leveraging off the Debt Syndicate and Treasury Strategy and Advisory teams’ advice and communicating it to borrowers in the most effective way possible. FI DCM is responsible for knowing the short and long-term funding and capital plans of their issuer clients, the issuers’ business strategies, and an in-depth knowledge of their credit and interest rate metrics and dynamics. FI DCM is also responsible for seamless co-ordination with Mizuho Bank on mutual clients. The team is highly focused on identifying cross-selling opportunities and enhancing the development of group-wide synergies.
The Debt Syndicate team’s primary role is to provide pricing, execution strategy and tactics for specific proposed transactions for Mizuho clients. The team also liaises with other Mizuho group syndicate teams, underwrites debt transactions, executes medium term notes and private placements, manages risk positions and communicates with other banks’ syndicate desks to provide seamless execution for clients’ bond issues. Debt Syndicate is responsible for liaising between traders, sales, DCM and derivatives’ teams, and engages both investors and issuers in the pursuit of cutting-edge market intelligence to provide appropriate execution advice to clients. Debt Syndicate is also required to execute swaps and to provide direct coverage for certain frequent borrowers.
The Primary Debt Markets team is responsible for marketing and originating fixed income products across various currencies to their issuer client base which consists of global sovereigns, supranationals and agencies, as well as global financial institutions and corporates (IG, HY and EM).
The Primary Debt Markets team in conjunction with Mizuho’s European Loan Capital Markets department is part of an integrated primary markets platform that provides a cohesive Loan and Bond offering to Mizuho’s clients and valuable insight into Bridge-Bond opportunities.

Mizuho Financial Group

Finance

Industry

10,001+

Employees

2001

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

This is not your typical financial institution. It’s our people who make us a cut above. Here, every person is respected because of their differences, not in spite of them. We pride ourselves on a culture of purpose, passion and compassion. At Mizuho, we provide the stability of an international industry leader with the career trajectory of a growing business. Our steady, strategic growth gives our people at all levels rewarding degrees of responsibility and a richer work experience than a boutique firm or an established giant could offer alone. Working for Mizuho opens doors not just to a rewarding career with excellent prospects, but to lasting friendships with colleagues from diverse cultures. It’s the local expertise of our employees that makes our global network so powerful. By collaborating with colleagues and clients who have your same ambition, you can amplify your sphere of influence and base of knowledge as part of one of the largest—and growing—banks in the world. We’re all global citizens, and that’s why our company feels compelled to make an impact through more than just drawing up deals. We prove that it’s possible to do well and do good. We do right by our clients, our community and each other.