Digital Assets Trading Intern

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.

Role Summary

This internship offers practical exposure to institutional digital-asset trading, quantitative research, technology, and commercial work. The role combines market analysis with real trading and development projects.

• Responsibilities include Python-based research, strategy evaluation, analytics tools, liquidity analysis, OTC solutions, business development, and risk infrastructure.
• Ideal candidates study a quantitative discipline, understand financial markets, work comfortably with large datasets, and communicate across trading, technology, and commercial teams.
• Interns gain experience with institutional trading workflows, including derivatives, market data, exchange connectivity, execution, pricing, and position monitoring.

All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.

Overall Responsibilities

• Trading & Market Analysis: Support the trading team in monitoring digital-asset markets across spot, perpetuals and options, including liquidity, volatility, funding, basis and market structure.
• Quantitative Research: Use Python and data analysis to research trading opportunities, systematically analyze historical market data and evaluate strategies across areas such as volatility, carry, relative value and derivatives.
• Trading Tools & Automation: Develop and improve internal analytics, dashboards and trading tools used for pricing, execution, position monitoring and market analysis.
• Liquidity & Market Making: Assist with analysis of exchange liquidity, spreads, order books, execution quality and hedging to support the team's market-making and liquidity-taking activities.
• OTC & Structured Solutions: Support the analysis, pricing and development of OTC and structured digital-asset solutions for sophisticated and institutional clients.
• Business Development Support: Assist with market and client analysis, presentation materials and commercial initiatives involving exchanges, liquidity venues, hedge funds, asset managers, quantitative trading firms and other institutional counterparties.
• Risk & Infrastructure: Gain exposure to trading infrastructure, exchange connectivity, market data, execution workflows and risk-management processes supporting an institutional trading business.

Standard Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the local regulators.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
• To escalate risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
• The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Competencies, Skills and Experience

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
  • Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
  

Skills and Experience

• Studying a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, finance or a related field.
• Comfortable with Python, particularly pandas/NumPy and data analysis.
• Strongly interested in financial markets, trading and digital assets.
• Curious about derivatives, options, volatility and quantitative strategies.
• Able to work with large datasets and turn analysis into clear commercial or trading insights.
• Analytical, proactive and comfortable operating in a fast-moving market environment.
• A strong communicator who can work across trading, technology and commercial teams.
• The internship provides practical exposure to the intersection of institutional trading, quantitative finance, technology and digital assets. Rather than being limited to market research, the intern will have the opportunity to work on real analytical and development projects used by an institutional digital-assets trading business

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients

Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders

Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.

Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.

Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators (where applicable)
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers