Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (Mizuho Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., is a leading global bank with one of the largest customer bases in Japan, and an extensive international network covering financial and business centres around the world. In EMEA, we provide corporates and institutions with unparalleled access and expertise in Japan and Asia. We are seen as the partner of choice for EMEA companies in their home market, providing them with a wide range of financial solutions.
Syndications is an independent, market-focused department encompassing Loan Capital Markets, Sales & Distribution and Sustainability, which is responsible for all loan facility coordination, arranging, underwriting and distribution in EMEA. Our business provides clients with market facing deal structures and pricing as well as the underwriting and coordination of a variety of loan transactions including refinancings, acquisitions, liquidity and capex facilities, project and real estate finance.
Syndications, EMEA We have four core role-based business lines:
Loan Capital Markets (LCM) – Working with relationship departments pitching clients across all sectors in the EMEA region (Leveraged, Corporate, PF, Real Estate, Infra and FI) to win Coordination and Underwriting mandates to support our client base.
• Sustainability Loan Markets (SLM) – Responsible for pitching to win ESG and Green arranger and agent roles alongside Loan Capital Markets. The SLM team, in conjunction with their sustainable bond colleagues, form the nucleus of the bank’s knowledge base regarding Sustainability in EMEA.
• Sales & Distribution – Developing and maintaining strong relationships with Investors in the EMEA region. Working with LCM on primary sell downs. Working with RM departments on secondary risk management via secondary and credit risk insurance markets
Internships
We have an opportunity for an internship encompassing all aspects of our business giving the chosen candidate the opportunity to understand the dynamics and drivers of each of our core business lines along which we operate. The candidate will rotate through a number of relevant departments within syndications and be given the opportunity to gain knowledge across a range of the products and roles for which we are responsible.
We are looking for undergraduates with strong excel skills, who are client focussed, results driven with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Fluency in more than one European language (in addition to English) is advantageous.
The Internship programme is a 10 week programme starting in June 2023. The aim is that successful interns will be offered a permanent position on the 2024 Mizuho Graduate Programme (commencing September 2024).
Candidates must be in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and be available to start full-time employment from September 2024 and have the permanent right to work in the UK.
To be successful at Mizuho, you must have a passion for financial services and identify with our values of winning spirit, inspiring trust and diversity of thought.
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive
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Mizuho Bank provides financial and strategic solutions for the increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs of international clients, focusing its efforts on serving major corporations, financial institutions, individuals and public sector entities. A relationship management approach to serving clients enables Mizuho Bank, together with group companies including Mizuho Trust & Banking and Mizuho Securities, to develop customised solutions in areas such as corporate, structured and project finance, transaction banking and risk management.
With 81 offices outside Japan, Mizuho Bank offers both local experience and the ability to progress careers across its global business network. Mizuho Bank is a subsidiary of the Japan-based Mizuho Financial Group, Inc, one of the largest financial services companies in the world, with total assets of approximately US $1.8 trillion (as of March, 2016). Mizuho London Branch has over 850 employees, Mizuho Bank employs over 27,000 employees and is part of the Mizuho Financial
