2027 Summer Internship - Global Markets - London

This is UBS's 2027 Summer Internship in its Global Markets business in London: a 10-week paid internship for students in their penultimate or final year. Source

'Global Markets' is UBS's sales and trading business. The advert describes it as helping clients buy and sell equities, foreign currencies and interest rates, and the intern's work as learning how the bank trades for clients, extracting market-moving data from a range of sources, giving clients information on market trends and offering trades at the best prices, and promoting products and trading ideas based on each client's needs and investment style. Source

The title names a division, not a desk. Nothing in the advert says whether you sit in equities, FX or rates, or on sales rather than trading, so the desk is decided after the offer. The bullet about promoting products to clients based on their investment style is sales language; the one about extracting market-moving data is closer to trading. Say in the application which you want.

No specific team is named: the advert covers the Global Markets business as a whole and the desk allocation is not stated.

What the advert does say about the business: Global Markets advises clients and does everything needed to buy and sell securities for them from start to finish, working with hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers and family offices to provide coverage, advisory, capital markets and financing services. Source

5 people have held London roles at UBS's Global Markets since 2018, against 84 in the bank's IBD in the same data. Read that as a gap in how the record labels markets seats as much as a difference in size; the bank's London trading floor is not five people. But it does mean we cannot tell you much about where its markets juniors go next.

UBS describes itself as a firm with a truly global footprint, says its people with their diverse skills and backgrounds drive its success, offers flexible working where possible, and states that it uses AI to work smarter. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers reasonable adjustments through the recruitment process on request. Source

253 people have held London roles at UBS as a whole since 2018, so the bank is one of the larger London employers even though its markets unit is thinly labelled.

Over the 10 weeks you work with the bank's experts, take part in day-to-day operations, get mentors and meet some of the most senior people in the teams. A successful internship may bring an offer to return to UBS's Graduate Talent Program after you finish your studies. Source

A 2027 summer advertised in August 2026 with a graduate-programme conversion is the annual campus cycle. The summer is the interview for the graduate seat; treat it that way from day one.

Four weeks from posting to deadline, plus a warning that it may close early, is a short window. If you are reading this in the first half of September, apply now rather than polishing.

You must be in the penultimate or final year of a bachelor's or master's degree and on track for a 2:1 (UK system) or equivalent in your first undergraduate degree. UBS welcomes all majors but wants an interest in the financial industry, values it lists as hard-working, trustworthy, dedicated and collaborative, strategic thinking with strong communication, motivation to work under high demands and tight deadlines, and evidence of how experimental and responsible use of AI can improve outcomes. It invites examples like organising a fundraiser, team sport or learning a subject you found hard. Source

Final-year students are eligible, which is not true of every summer programme, and 'all majors' is said plainly. The AI bullet is a genuine screening criterion here, not decoration: have one concrete example of using an AI tool responsibly on a real piece of work.