Internship – Regulatory Horizon Scanning

Euronext; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 10,000 - 12,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship and learning opportunities

International, dynamic work enviroment

32-36 hours per week internship

Job summary

Euronext is seeking a trainee for its Compliance team in Amsterdam to support horizon-scanning activities across the Group, with a focus on financial markets regulation and AML/CFT. The role offers exposure to the European regulatory agenda, including digital regulation and GDPR, within a dynamic, international market infrastructure.

Ideal candidates are Master’s students in law or European affairs who can distill dense regulatory texts into clear summaries, work with MS Office, and communicate

Qualifications

• Master's-level student (or final year) in Law, Compliance, Political Science, European Affairs, or related field.
• Strong interest in financial markets regulation and AML/CFT.
• Ability to read dense legal and regulatory material quickly and distill into clear summaries.
• Familiarity with wider digital regulatory landscape is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor regulatory developments on financial markets regulation and AML/CFT across the EU and national jurisdictions.
• Track outputs of institutions like European Commission, Parliament, ESMA, EBA, ECB and national regulators.
• Set up and maintain regulatory watch register and dashboard for management.
• Prepare concise summaries, gap analyses, and impact flags.
• Support periodic regulatory updates for management and governance committees.
• Assist with maintenance of compliance policies and documentation.
• Contribute to awareness and training on upcoming regulatory change.

Skills

Fluent English

Strong written and verbal comms

Rigorous, organized, detail-oriented

Curiosity & proactivity

MS Office (Excel & PowerPoint)

Education

Master's-level student in Law, Compliance, Political Science, European Affairs, or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Department description

The Compliance team is looking for a trainee to support its regulatory horizon-scanning activities across the Group. Horizon scanning is how the department anticipates change: identifying upcoming and evolving regulation early, assessing what it means for Euronext's entities and business lines, and ensuring the right stakeholders are informed and mobilised in time.

Job summary

Your work will be centred on financial markets regulation and AML/CFT as the first area of focus, complemented by a plus of exposure to the wider European regulatory agenda — digital regulation, data protection, ICT risk, operational resilience, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. This gives you real depth in one regulatory area while still developing a broad, cross-cutting view of how a pan-European market infrastructure turns regulatory signals into action.

Key Accountabilities

In collaboration with Chief Compliance Officer, your tasks will be the following:

• First area of focus — financial markets regulation and AML/CFT: Monitor legislative and regulatory developments on financial markets regulation and AML/CFT across the EU and relevant national jurisdictions (Level 1 texts, delegated/implementing acts, regulatory and implementing technical standards, guidelines, consultations and supervisory publications) — for example MiFIR/MAR, EMIR, CSDR and AML/CFT texts.
• Track the output of key institutions and authorities relevant to financial markets and AML/CFT — European Commission, Parliament and Council, ESMA, EBA, ECB, and national regulators.
• Set up and maintain the regulatory watch register for this area, and help develop a regulatory dashboard giving management a clear view of the pipeline of developments.
• Track key regulatory milestones and implementation deadlines and timelines.
• Prepare concise summaries, gap analysis and impact flags — what has changed, who it affects within the Group, applicable timelines and required follow-up.
• Support deeper-dive impact assessments on selected financial markets and AML/CFT developments.
• Help triage and route developments to the relevant compliance owners and business lines, and follow up on actions.
• Support the preparation of periodic regulatory updates for management and governance committees.
• Assist with the maintenance of related compliance policies, procedures and documentation as these frameworks evolve.
• Contribute to awareness and training initiatives on upcoming regulatory change in this area.

Wider regulatory landscape (as capacity allows):

• Contribute to monitoring of the wider digital and regulatory agenda (for example the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the NIS2 Directive, the AI Act, the Data Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR), logging developments in the shared tracker.
• Help tag and route notable developments in these areas to the relevant compliance owners.
• Contribute occasional summaries on wider regulatory topics for newsletters or governance materials, where useful to the team.

Deliverables

• Regulatory watch register for financial markets and AML/CFT, set up and maintained on an ongoing basis.
• Regulatory dashboard covering the financial markets and AML/CFT pipeline.
• Tracker of key regulatory milestones and implementation deadlines/timelines.
• Periodic regulatory updates prepared for management and governance committees.
• Deep-dive impact assessments on selected financial markets and AML/CFT developments.
• Ad hoc contributions to the wider regulatory-watch tracker, as a secondary output.

Profile

• Master's-level student (or final year) in Law, Compliance, Political Science, European Affairs, or a related field.
• Strong interest in financial markets regulation and AML/CFT, and in how EU legislation moves from proposal to application — required.
• Ability to read and digest dense legal and regulatory material quickly, and to distil it into clear, structured, actionable summaries — required.
• Familiarity with the wider digital regulatory landscape (DORA, NIS2, AI Act, Data Act, CRA, GDPR) is a plus, not required.
• Rigorous, organised and detail-oriented, with the discipline to track many parallel workstreams.
• Curiosity and proactivity — a genuine appetite for staying on top of “what's coming next.”
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent English; French, Dutch or another European language is an advantage.
• Comfortable with MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint in particular).
• Sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential information.

What We Offer

• A 6 months (minimum) to 1 year internship (in 2 terms)
• An internship of 32 to 36 hours per week
• 1,000€ gross monthly allowance for a full-time internship (36h/week)
• A dynamic and international work environment within a leading European market infrastructure.
• Mentorship and learning opportunities from experienced professionals.
• Euronext Values:
  • Unity We respect and value the people we work with
  • Unity We are unified through a common purpose
  • Unity We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion
  • Integrity We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly
  • Integrity We act with integrity in everything we do
  • Integrity We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them
  • Agility We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness
  • Agility We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change
  • Agility We take smart risks
  • Energy We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo
  • Energy We focus on and encourage personal leadership
  • Energy We motivate each other with our ambition
  • Accountability We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders
  • Accountability We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome
  • Accountability We reward and celebrate performance

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor.

We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Additional Information

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.

Euronext is the leading European capital market infrastructure, covering the entire capital markets value chain, from listing, trading, clearing, settlement and custody to solutions for issuers and investors. Euronext operates MTS, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets, and Nord Pool, the European power market. Euronext also provides clearing and settlement services through Euronext Clearing and its Euronext Securities central securities depositories (CSDs) in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal. Euronext’s regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal host a broad range of listed issuers, a strong blue-chip franchise and the largest global center for debt and fund listings. With a diverse domestic and international client base, Euronext is a major venue for European lit equity trading. Its products include equities, FX, ETFs, bonds, derivatives, commodities and indices. For the more information, please visit our career website.