Global Capital Markets Summer Analyst - 2025 - Asia Pacific

Global Capital Markets Summer Analyst Program

What we’re looking for:

• Penultimate year Undergraduate/Master’s student with outstanding academic achievement seeking a summer internship with a pipeline to 2025 full-time employment 
• Must demonstrate a track record of superior performance in extracurricular and professional activities
• Demonstrate a combination of strong quantitative/analytical skills, attention to detail and client focus
• Strategic and creative thinking; distinguished written and oral communications skills
• Assertiveness, initiative, leadership, strong work ethic, team focus
• Ability to learn quickly and take on new responsibilities. Comfortable with change and adjust to changing demands and requirements
• Demonstrates energy & drive and dedication to building a career in the investment banking industry
• Fluency in English is essential, appropriate Asian language skills are also essential

Why Us?

Our Global Corporate & Investment Banking business focuses on building long-term relationships with more than 3,000 large multinational corporations, financial institutions and financial sponsors. We provide strong advisory expertise, capitalizing on powerful mergers and acquisitions, corporate banking, treasury, debt and equity product expertise to deliver integrated financial solutions. We have a significant presence in the Americas, Europe, Emerging Markets (ex-Asia) and Asia Pacific.

The Global Capital Markets team helps companies and institutions access the debt and equity markets to raise capital to fund their business needs. The team specializes in advisory services as well as structuring and executing financing through a broad range of sophisticated equity and debt solutions.

What you’ll do:

As a summer analyst, your key tasks and responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Performing comprehensive, in-depth research on companies, sectors, new issue market, general market conditions and institutional investors
• Prepare recommendations on timing, size, and structure of transactions
• Work with various teams across the firm including Investment Banking and Global Markets
• Transaction execution and preparation of related documents
• Help the team deliver solutions to clients leveraging full spectrum of the bank's capabilities
• Develop and leverage upon a truly global network - learn from, and work with, teams consisting of professionals drawn from across the business, including senior bankers within your group, experts in other areas of the firm and colleagues from around the globe
• Build relationships, knowledge and experience that will open doors to a wide range of future career options and opportunities

Our Summer Analyst program is designed to offer you a broad and exciting experience of work as a full time Capital Markets Analyst.  Our Capital Markets business is focused on providing financial solutions across the capital structure and our Summer Analyst program will offer your insight into this business.

During the summer you will be placed within one of product teams. Your training and development is our top priority with extensive formal training offered at the start of the program in addition to on the job support, educational speaker events and mentorship throughout.

Depending on location, Summer Analysts are either hired and placed directly with a specific team throughout the internship program or rotate through different product teams. Team placement is determined by considering business needs and the interests/skills of the Summer Analyst.

• Equity Capital Markets (ECM) is at the nexus between Sales & Trading and traditional Investment Banking - the role necessitates cultivating relationships not only with our fee-paying corporate clients for whom we execute transactions, but also with institutional clients who buy our deals and provide feedback on market trends and appetite. The Initial Public Offering (IPO), or when the company undergoes an extensive marketing effort to curry investor demand and is first listed on a public exchange, is a seminal moment in a company’s lifecycle, and is one of the hallmark processes of this ECM seat. Successful candidates must thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and be heavily detail-oriented.

• Investment Grade Capital Markets offers insight into the capital raising process with extensive formal training and mentorship throughout the program. Summer analysts are integral members of our team and will work closely with senior colleagues to gain exposure to a wide spectrum of clients, from large corporations to small-cap companies, as well as a variety of financing projects including regular-way debt capital raising, acquisition financing, liability management, and capital structure advisory. The Investment Grade Capital Markets Summer Analyst program prepares graduates for a career in capital markets through exposure to macroeconomics and their impact on capital markets, client coverage responsibilities and business development efforts, as well as the capital raising process and specific technical training on investment banking functions and credit markets.

• Debt Advisory is a division of Global Capital Markets within the Global Corporate & Investment Bank. The team is a leader in liability management services, working with clients across the credit spectrum from A-rated Fortune 50 investment grade companies to high yield issuers, from performing to distressed facing imminent default. Clients include corporations, financial sponsors, financial institutions, governments and multilateral institutions across sectors around the world. Situations frequently supported by Debt Advisory include refinancing transactions, capital structure changes, mergers and acquisitions, spin-off transactions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, bond covenant modifications and distressed situations. Debt Advisory executes transactions focusing on existing debt such as tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, refinancings, recapitalizations, open market repurchases and capital market restructuring. Debt Advisory works closely with Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance and the Global Corporate & Investment Banking coverage teams to provide solutions for our debt clients.

• Sustainable Banking Solutions provides deep expertise on ESG topics affecting clients funding needs, valuation, and strategic decisions. We offer a full spectrum of capital markets products and maintain seamless coordination with our Investment Banking, Corporate Banking and Capital Markets partners.

• Leveraged Finance helps non-investment grade clients raise debt capital. Situations include Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Corporate M&A, Dividend Recapitalizations, and debt refinancing. The Leveraged Finance team works closely with groups across the Global Corporate & Investment Bank (GCIB) to deliver solutions for our clients. 

Program Overview

The Summer program is a 10-week program designed to provide Summer Analysts with a unique opportunity to gain an exposure to life at Bank of America and also make significant contributions to the team. The Summer program begins with an orientation and induction to the firm. Summer Analysts are given a true associate experience, as assignments mirror full-time responsibility and include goal-setting and a formal review process. 

• Access to the bank’s learning hub containing a variety of learning resources, ranging from banking fundamentals to communication skills 
• Structured and on-the-job training
• Networking and social opportunities
• Speaker series with senior management across all lines of business
• Corporate Social Responsibility project/learning
• Involvement in Diversity and Inclusion training/events 
• Consideration for full-time employment upon graduation

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. 

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. 

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. 

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Connecting Asia Pacific to the World

Our Asia Pacific team is spread across 19 cities in 12 markets. We are focused on connecting Asia to the world and the world to Asia, using our global expertise to ensure success is shared between us, our clients and our communities. Our regional footprint covers 12 currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, placing us firmly among the region’s leading financial services companies.