National Bank of Canada

Founded in Quebec City in 1859, National Bank of Canada became the present-day National Bank through mergers, including the 1979 combination with the Provincial Bank of Canada. Its head office is in Montreal, and it has expanded from a Quebec base into a pan-Canadian banking group, including the 2025 acquisition of Canadian Western Bank.

The bank operates across Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, Financial Markets, and U.S. Specialty Finance and International. It serves individuals, entrepreneurs, companies and institutional clients through lending, deposits, investment and advisory services, brokerage, capital-markets activities and international subsidiaries such as ABA Bank in Cambodia and Credigy in the United States.

For students, National Bank is particularly relevant for its Quebec franchise, commercial and private banking, wealth management, and Canadian capital-markets platform. Its internship opportunities span financial solutions, business intelligence, mobile technology, transactional websites and cybersecurity, with paid internships typically lasting three to four months.