Quant Research Intern 2025

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London, Greater London, England
1 Years Experience
Fintech • Information Technology • Financial Services
We’re transforming how the world trades fixed income. And we’re not done, yet.
The Role
As a Quants Research Intern, you'll partner with the Sales team to deliver data insights for trading execution, analyze bond market activity, develop models and reports, and create presentation materials for meetings.
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About Us 

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There. 

 The Role

9-week internship with the London Quant Research team:

  • Partner with the MarketAxess Sales team to deliver tailored data insights that enhance trading execution for clients and dealers.
  • Analyse bond market activity and market micro-structure trends, including MarketAxess’ proprietary data.
  • Develop new models and reports.

How You’ll Take Us There  

  • Create and maintain presentation materials for internal and external meetings.
  • Champion business growth with state-of-the-art analytics.
  • Expand and refine our quantitative trading solutions.

What We’re Looking for 

  • Hold an undergraduate or masters’ degree in a quantitative field (science, engineering, mathematics, finance, or statistics is preferred).
  • Solid quantitative and analytical skills.
  • Good querying / programming capabilities including R/Python, SQL.
  • Understanding of fixed income markets.
  • Must be graduating in Summer 2026, hence should be in their penultimate year of study.
  • Superb interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Highly analytical, flexible, team-oriented, and creative problem solver.
  • Strong data capabilities, including working with complex datasets.
  • English (to a high/professional standard)

What You Can Expect from Us

  • Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.  
  • Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines 
  • Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days 
  • Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service 
  • Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan 
  • Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences 

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it's how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term

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Top Skills

Python
R
SQL
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
868 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace.

Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency and competition in the marketplace.

Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 companies around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead.

We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

Why Work With Us

When we say we have an environment without endless layers, we really mean it. You’ll work alongside talented colleagues of all backgrounds and experience in an environment where your voice is valued. You’ll be in the middle of the action, where your contributions will be seen and recognized.

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