Internship – Regulatory Horizon Scanning

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.