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Corporate finance is about funding a company. This is what a firm's CFO/corporate finance department does.

Firms sometimes hire IBs to act as external corporate finance groups. That's why some people refer to IB as corporate finance. As a banker, you're offering corporate finance services to other firms. When a firm needs a lot of capital, your services allow you to offer cheaper funding than their CFO can provide.

What you're describing sounds like a bank's own internal corporate finance group. Any company with a CFO has this in some capacity. You wouldn't be working with clients, you'd just be funding the bank itself. However, the skillset will be the same between the two roles, so moving to IB may be feasible.

 

Oh ok. The reason I am confused is because I was looking around online the difference between cf at account firm and investment banking and people were saying their was not a difference but people also said that it was hard to move to ib.

 

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