The banking and finance internships already open for 2026
If you want to work in an investment bank, you have to start preparing for it pretty early. Most bankers these days will have completed spring internships in their first year, as well as summer internships in their second: the former is important, but the latter is critical.
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That’s because most investment banking jobs are “converted” from summer internships. Students do a summer internship after their second year, and if they perform well, they’ll be offered a full-time job by their employer. Some banks, such as Morgan Stanley, recruit exclusively from their summer internships. They are really, really important.
Competition to get a summer internship is therefore tough as hell. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan only accept 0.8% and 0.9% of students who apply to their internships, respectively. Every single aspect of your application is mission-critical during application season.
One of those aspects is temporal. You want to apply as soon as possible to a summer internship: ideally, the same day it opens. Failing that, the second-best time is now – and these are all of the internships that you can sit down and apply to immediately.
Investment banking internships open for 2026
There are quite a lot of investment banking internships already open for 2026.
Goldman Sachs probably has the most. It has more or less anything you want, anywhere you want – Paris investment banking? You can do that. Boston sales & trading? No problem. Most open American internships are summer ones, while most European ones are off-cycle. You can peruse at your own pleasure here.
JPMorgan also has a good few opportunities open. Again, most summer internships are American, such as New York markets or research. Most European opportunities are off-cycle, such as investment banking in Zurich. Peruse here.
Bank of America has fewer opportunities open. Most are in Australia (research, banking, and quant), but it does have a “rotational” opportunity in its New York sales & trading team. Morgan Stanley also has few opportunities open: if you’re interesting in investment banking, you can do it off-cycle in the UAE, and there are NY-based sales & trading summer internships. Citi is in a similar boat, although only in New York; 2026 summer internships are open for sales & trading, real estate, and quant things.
The European side of things is quieter. UBS has open opportunities, but only in Australia. BNP Paribas is looking for an off-cycle M&A analyst in Frankfurt.
Boutiques, however, are more active. Evercore is also looking for a Frankfurt-based banking analyst. Lazard is looking for off-cycle banking analysts in Paris and Germany. Rothschild is looking for Paris based analysts in equity capital markets and M&A, as well as Zurich-based M&A analysts. And Moelis is looking for Hong Kong-based summer analysts for its investment banking team.
Hedge fund internships open for 2026
Ken Griffin’s Citadel has a number of internships open for aspiring analysts, engineers, and quants. If you’re a STEM PhD in London or Paris, there is a quantitative research internship open for 2026. If you’re still in London (but not just an undergrad), there are positions open for 2026 sector data analysts or international equities associates. And if you’re still interested in international equities, but based in Hong Kong or Singapore, you’re in luck.
Worldwide, multi-strategy fund Capula has opened up its trading & research 2026 summer internship. It’s open to students in London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Macro fund Rokos, meanwhile, has apprenticeship, graduate, and internship positions open for 2026, although it doesn’t specify where.
If you’re a New York Mets fan, its owner, Steve Cohen, owns Point72. The multi-strategy fund is hiring for its “academy” in a number of places, including Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It’s also hiring quantitative researchers and developers in New York.
Private equity internships open for 2026
A number of private equity firms have also opened their internship programs for 2026.
San Francisco-based Alpine, with has $18bn in AUM, currently has one internship open for 2026 for an Austin-based “sourcing summer analyst” (link here). Applications close on June 1st, so be quick if you haven’t applied already.
Big daddy of private equity Blackstone has just two 2026 summer internships open, both in its real estate team: one in Singapore, and one in Tokyo. New York General Atlantic, with $108bn in AUM, is hiring for a 2026 investment intern for a three-month term in its Munich office. GIC, the $800bn Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, is hiring for a 12-week internship, although applications open in July 2026. $6.8bn AUM Graham Partners has a 2026 summer internship open for its private equity investment team. KKR, another PE titan, has just open posting for 2026: a full-time analyst in its growth team, with applications closing at the end of June this year.
We saw a few more open places at $179bn-strong StepStone. The firm is hiring, among others, a 2026 private equity summer analyst, based in New York, and a 2026 infrastructure & real estate summer analyst, based in Toronto;
Internships yet to open for 2026
A number of firms have yet to open their internships for 2026. These include banks: Barclays, Deutsche Bank, SocGen, PJT, PWP, and Raine Group. Hedge funds: AQR, Balyasny, Brevan Howard, DE Shaw, Marshall Wace, Schonfeld, Tudor, TwoSigma, Verition. And private equity firms: Ares, Audax, BainCap, Carlyle, EQT, Orbis, PSP, Riverside.
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