Unsure of what area of finance/banking to look into, any help appreciated

Hi all,

As a background, I am working in a medium sized eruopean bank, a graduate position, got it right put of college.

I am in my first rotation and will have 3 more departments, which are as follows.

  1. Corporate Banking: revolvers, senior debt, LOTS OF ADMIN.
  2. European Leverage finance. In my bank this is very market based. No interaction with borrower, the bank buys into a syndicated loan.
  3. Corporate Finance or Development capital, not sure yet.

My question is, I am getting a lot of offers at the moment (slowed with covid but point stands), from very different areas of finance, I don't know what area I really want. A lot of it is investment analyst for private clients, not mad on it. Obviously I wanna see through my grad position to get the full experience, but after?

I do not wanna work with private clients or wealth management, boring.
I wanna deal with markets primarily and with corporates.
Corporate banking Is fun but I find it a bit slow pace wise, leverage finance is prob the best mix.

In terms of trading, I wouldn't be mad on it for various reasons, but I would not mind be an equity research analyst, would play into my econ background and my current cfa study process.
Investment banking is rare in europe, very sales-y, so not ideal.

Any ideas of what I should look into?

 
 

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