Summer Internships being cancelled? Is it possible?

Hello Monkeys,

Given the current coronavirus situation and what is happening in the markets (especially today's oil prices and equities reaction to it) I started to ask myself, if it is possible that the Summer Internship programmes will be cancelled?

Have you ever heard about something like this occurring in the "bad times" like 2008?

Scared monkey with tons of student debt at a European target school and no FT offer.

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The BB I'm set to intern at this summer recently sent out an email saying for now they don't expect to change anything and if needed they'll move remote -- but they assured as they won't outright axe us. If they ever do go back on that I'm guessing things will be bad enough that a summer internship will be the last thing on my mind. I did hear though that a friend of an acquaintance (so take this with a grain of salt) with a summer offer at a large prop trading firm was canceled, although they're getting full pay + guaranteed FT offers.

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Why are you so insecure that you keep going around to these forums and telling kids their internships are getting cancelled despite that fact that many banks have assured kids they will not be and that they will be doing online? I don't get how you can speak with such certainly given that no one knows what is going to happen. Go deal with your problems some other way.

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