BOA Global Commercial Banking vs Corporate Banking Analyst Programs

Focus on Corp. Commercial banking will put you as a credit analyst, usual cut off for lending around 2mil. Corp is 2 mil and above (generally speaking).

Commercial - think large manufacture Corporate - think F500

So corporate banking is the way to go

In my opinion, yes. There have been a bunch of threads recently so you might want to check them out. They talk about Corp Vs IBD a lot.

From the BOA Careers Page:

Global Commercial Banking (GCB) serves more than 100,000 business banking and more than 30,000 commercial/middle-market clients through dedicated client teams who provide seamless delivery of the bank's full capabilities, including investment banking and M&A, wealth and investment management, integrated credit and treasury solutions, and international banking services

The above makes it sound like global commercial banking analysts do investment-banking related activities as well. maybe the commercial banking group delivers comparable products but has more of a middle-market focus than corporate banking?

doesn't firstyearbanker work at BOA? what does he have to say? (besides the usual if isn't IBD, it's back office crap flame)

You guys are seriously retarded. Listen to the kid above who actually worked in this shitty position. Commercial banking is for community college and people with no college diplomas. Are you guys serious? This is an INVESTMENT BANKING forum. Am I going to talk about Abercrombie and Fitch jobs here? Get the fuck out with this shit.

Haha, I was waiting for that. Ya, this site isn't going to be a great resource if you are looking to do corp/comm.

Oh there are you are firstyearbanker,

you work for Bank of America right?

How do you feel about corporate banking again?

Stay far far away from commercial banking.

yes, i understand that about commercial banking.

but what about corporate banking

Stay away. IBD or bust.

Yeah we get it-IBD or bust. But say you can't break into IB at the moment, but would like to post MBA. As long has you have 700+ Gmat, good GPA, and solid experience in corporate banking, you should be able to get into a good MBA program.

So if you had to chose between corporate or commercial, you would choose corporate, right?

If you can't break into IBD, aim smaller. A boutique is still better than any of those options. Staying at a BB for non-IBD makes no sense to me since those kids are 99% of the time not looking at boutiques. But then again there are people in back office so I guess if you had to choose go with corp.

How are the interviews usually for these positions? Are they usually more technical or more fit or combination of both?

Fit based, maybe some tech depending on what specific area you are going to. Know the parts of a banks balance sheet, how they make money, etc. Focus on behavioral stuff.