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London, UK

2026 Financial Resources & Strategy Industrial Placement Internship (London)

Internship
Finance
Finance
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Morgan Stanley

Investment banking and financial services
75.6
Palpable Score
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Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, continuously evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.


Placement and duration

The Financial Resources & Strategy (FRS) Industrial Placement Programme is an opportunity to experience the culture and atmosphere of Morgan Stanley. Interns will be able to take on some of the responsibilities and functions of a Full-time Analyst for a one-year internship. Interns will join FRS, where they will undertake rotations for the duration of the program and will experience a range of roles, whilst also gaining exposure to Institutional Equities and Fixed Income divisions.

The Program begins in June with one week of intensive classroom training. This will include an introduction to Morgan Stanley followed by division-specific training. In addition to rotations within FRS, Interns will receive broader exposure across all of Sales & Trading through individual and group project assignments, senior management speaker series and networking events. All Interns will be assigned a dean and a buddy by way of support.

Responsibilities

• Shadow experienced Morgan Stanley employees to gain a broader understanding of the different functions of the desk and the wider Financing business.

• Pre-plan projects to improve the productivity and efficiency of the desk.

• Rotate on FRS’s two desks and work closely with leading Analysts. The two desks are Funding and Collateral Optimisation and Margining Capital Optimisation. In both cases these are desks which work across the wider ISG trading business to optimise funding efficiency.

• Understand the Firm’s secured funding framework and governance and work with traders in executing secured funding trades within this framework.

• Strategy & Resource Management: Work on FRS and Firm strategic initiatives and pursue current strategies.

• Business Management: Understand balance sheet management, risk controls around all of FRS’s business areas, management of capital, and client analytics.*Salary is competitive with excellent benefits.

Qualifications/ Skills/ Requirements

• You are a penultimate-year undergraduate student with outstanding academic achievements, and on track to achieve a minimum of 2.1 honours degree or equivalent.

• All degree disciplines accepted, but applicants must have a keen interest in the financial markets.

• You have strong analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

• You have the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and succinctly.

• You thrive under pressure and in ever-changing situations.

About the company

Morgan Stanley

Company overview
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm offering investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, and investment management. Morgan Stanley works with corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals to raise capital, manage investments, and run financial strategies. The company also operates a large wealth management business serving individual clients and financial advisors. Morgan Stanley has expanded through major acquisitions in wealth and investment management and now runs across public and private markets.

Locations and presence

Morgan Stanley is headquartered in New York and runs offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Japan. Public careers pages list locations and teams globally, but do not set out a single, firmwide statement on on-site, hybrid, or remote expectations for early-career roles.

Palpable Score

75.6
/ 100
Morgan Stanley provides multiple ways in for students and new graduates, including large seasonal internship funnels plus structured development programmes in wealth management and branch operations. Morgan Stanley also publishes clearer hiring stages for some early-career tracks than most large banks, and backs early careers with training and benefits. Outcomes are mixed in public signals: there are credible stories of intern-to-full-time conversion and progression, alongside widely reported firmwide layoffs and limited published data on early-career retention or conversion rates.
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