Commercial Banking Exit Opps

Anyone know of what exit opps there are from a top BB commercial bank analyst program? This includes doing the formal credit training. Also wondering what starting pay is as well as bonus and signing bonus? Do you develop a solid skill set to transfer to other areas of finance?

Wondering if this is a path I might want to take as they recruit heavily frfom my school

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I have friends that have moved to investment banking from commercial banking. Most often it was one year of commercial banking, then starting as a first year analyst.

 

Difficult, but a little easier if you are in an industry specific commercial or corporate banking group and try to move over to the same industry coverage group at a MM bank.

 

Not sure if that was sarcasm, if not than yes the only people I know that have made the move followed this sort of path. Hard to make the move if you're doing commercial banking at a smaller regional bank. Capital One is the smallest bank I've seen the move come from, and that was to a smaller MM.

 
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Not sure if that was sarcasm, if not than yes the only people I know that have made the move followed this sort of path. Hard to make the move if you're doing commercial banking at a smaller regional bank. Capital One is the smallest bank I've seen the move come from, and that was to a smaller MM.

No sarcasm. Agreement since 1/4 of the battle is won right away if you understand a specific industry coverage and move from CB to IB.

I was only thinking of BBs.

 

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