International finance internships monitor geopolitical events’ effects, like Middle East tensions pushing oil stocks up 2%. Such real-time assessments aid forecasting geopolitical risk impacts. Nitesh Sharan , CFO of SoundHound AI , remembers the early days vividly. “Excel has been foundational to the finance profession,” he said. “Along with my old HP-12C calculator, it’s one of the tools that defined my early career.” As a young treasury professional, he said he even used Visual Basic inside Excel to run complex trading simulations, something no other software could handle at the time. September is also significant for students, as this is when most competitive finance companies begin their application seasons. Procrastinating is equivalent to losing the entire opportunity since most of these opportunities have time limits. Early application demonstrates seriousness and proactivity — qualities that employers in the financial industry highly value. Banks running finance internships use Bloomberg terminals to teach bond yield analysis, noting the recent 10-year Treasury yield at 4.32% and implications for equities. Such training helps predict market shifts tied to interest rate trends.