Lombard Odier

Lombard Odier's published Emerging Talent programmes are Geneva-based and take school-leavers and HES students through to bachelor level inside the firm:

• Banking Apprenticeship (CFC): three years in Geneva, rotating across bank departments, leading to the Federal Diploma with or without banking orientation
• Maturity Professional Commerciale (MPC): two years in Geneva, taken alongside the apprenticeship to qualify for HES study
• Haute École de Gestion (HEG) – Business Administration Economics: four years, 80% at the bank across four one-year placements in front-office or support, 20% at HEG Geneva
• Haute École de Gestion (HEG) – Business Information Technology: four years, 60% at the bank across four IT placements, 40% at HEG Geneva

This is a multi-year apprenticeship track, not a summer internship season: a candidate is committing two to four years to a single firm in Geneva, so the decision sits closer to a Swiss vocational placement than to a parallel run of investment-bank graduate applications.

The firm also states it was "the first global wealth and asset manager to be awarded B Corp certification", a claim corroborated by external coverage. For an applicant comparing the firm to a listed peer, the structure is the substantive difference: it answers to its own partners rather than outside shareholders, and its formal early-career intake runs only through Geneva-based apprenticeships rather than a global graduate scheme.