2025/2026 immediate starts recruiting

2nd year banking analyst here who was planning on doing another year of banking (have a pretty good gig and was going to do a2a) - I skipped out on on-cycle and recruiting for the past year and half, but am looking to make the jump now and don’t really see a reason to stick out my 3rd year. Rest of my class had pretty good placements and I’ve been top bucket so know I’m more than qualified than them, but was just wondering if anyone had a sense of ifI need to go ahead and start recruiting for 2026 summer starts or if things will pop up in the next ~6 months as people start renegging or quitting

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