Bank of America

In EMEA, the second phase is an assessment centre with phone and video interviews involving HR, business managers and peers, possibly including exercises and aptitude assessments. In the US, the on-demand video round gives candidates 30 seconds to prepare and up to three minutes to respond per question; first- and second-round interviews follow by phone, video, or on campus, with the final round conducted by representatives from the target business area. The recorded-video step is identical across geographies, but a candidate applying in both London and New York will prepare for different downstream formats – assessment centre versus business-line final round – on top of the same initial recording.

Bank of America publishes its early-careers portfolio across four student-program regions:

• Summer Internship Programme – ten weeks, penultimate-year undergraduates; in EMEA, business areas span Global Markets, Global Corporate & Investment Banking, Enterprise Control Functions, Global Technology and Global Operations.
• Spring Insight Programme (EMEA) – shorter generalist programme for first-year undergraduates (or second-year on a four-year course), with a fast-track assessment process that can lead directly to an internship.
• Degree Apprenticeship (UK) – full-time fixed-term contract for school-leavers; requires 104 UCAS points.
• Industrial Placement Programme (EMEA, Global Technology) – 6 to 12 months, penultimate-year.
• Banking Connections (APAC) – two-day introduction in Singapore and Hong Kong.
• Industrial Attachment (APAC, Technology) – six months, January to June.
• Full-time Analyst and Associate programs – bachelor's-grad analysts and master's/MBA associates respectively.

The firm describes the summer internship as its primary source of hiring into the full-time campus class, so for a penultimate-year candidate it is the dominant entry point; the pre-internship and apprenticeship tracks open earlier in undergraduate or post-secondary education and can route into the summer programme via the fast-track.

The published US/Canada and APAC pages do not state an equivalent test, so the EEA-preference policy is specifically a UK constraint.

Within the investment bank, BofA Securities led the global syndicated loans rankings in 2025 – a category that drives the leveraged-finance and corporate-lending dealflow analysts and interns in Global Corporate & Investment Banking work on day to day. The integrated structure means early-career rotations sit alongside a balance-sheet-led IB franchise and an in-house wealth manager rather than within a pure advisory parent, so a candidate choosing between BofA and a stand-alone advisory house is choosing a different mix of deal exposure – more financing-led, less M&A-pure – for the same job title.