The investment banks already hiring US interns... For 2026
If you, a young student and prospective-investment-banking-summer-intern, thought you were safe for the time being from having to begin the laborious research and preparation process to begin applying for 2026 banking internships, you were wrong. Very wrong.
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That’s because a number of banks have already opened applications for 2026 summer analyst roles. The vast majority are in the USA, so students based in Europe and Asia – enjoy your Christmas. For now. The roles are generally open for students graduating in 2027 – in the USA, that means sophomore students.
The most notable bank to have open applications is Deutsche Bank, which is looking for origination & advisory interns for 2026 in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as capital markets interns in New York exclusively.
The other big bank looking for 2026 interns is RBC, which is also looking for interns in its investment banking team based in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. It’s also looking for associates (MBA students) in equity research.
It’s mostly boutique banks that are looking for interns this early. Rothschild, for instance, is looking for a New York and Santa Monica-based summer analysts for its global advisory team, covering “mergers & acquisitions, debt advisory, restructuring, and equity markets solutions.”
Perella Weinberg Partners is looking for 2026 summer analysts based in its Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York offices. And just in New York, famously fun The Raine Group is looking for a summer analyst in New York. Evercore is also looking for a Q1 of 2026 off-cycle intern in Frankfurt.
Application deadlines range between mid to late January.
It’s worth noting that other than Deutsche, big banks have yet to open their application windows (except Barclays, which is hiring for a few roles in Japan). The big banks hire the vast majority of investment banking interns (Goldman alone, for example, adds around 2,000 new faces to its headcount every Q3), and these applications are probably the most important you’ll make.
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