Commercial Banking or Investment Sales: Better Future Opps?

Jumping into finance with 2 years of experience in SaaS sales from top Canadian B-School undergrad (Ivey, Smith, etc.) - current TC 90k

Am lucky enough to have received two offers - one for commercial banking analyst (70k TC soft 2 year commitment) at top Canadian Bank and another for investment sales (internal wholesaler for REIT-like product) at a solid RE firm based in Toronto (90k TC). Curious to hear everyone's thoughts on LT career opps.

From my research I understand that commercial banking can lead to corporate banking or maybe IB/PE after an MBA (still a stretch) but the role in wholesale could lead to greater opportunities in the Sales side of finance (institutional sales/external wholesaler). Also thinking that the exposure to RE and markets being at a smaller shop could allow me to learn more earlier in my career jumping into finance but the big bank experience in lending could also open up interesting paths.

My long-term goals aren't fully clear but I am interested in being client facing/getting exposure to markets (corporate banking or institutional sales)

Any and all advice would really help me out here

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You learn more hard skills in commercial banking than you would in sales. 

CCB to CB or IB is definitely doable, I don't know why you'd need to do an MBA. I've seen people make the switch w/o one, it's not a stretch. If I were you, I would pick CCB.

 
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