Left IB early - asking to repay signing bonus

Left BB to PE firm about a year early, bank asking to repay ~10K of signing bonus. Can probably get current firm to cover, but they haven't followed up about repayment after about a month. Should I just ignore it? What do ppl typically do?

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What in the actual hell, really? been a bit since i got my signing in IB but none of my friends who were with me that year had vesting strucutre for signing

 

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