SEC DERA Internship

I got an offer for an internship at the SEC with DERA, their Division of Economic Risk Analysis, and so basically I'll be doing some heavy math stuff with risk assessment, derivatives research, etc. It will definitely be more quant and academic focused.

Every banker that I've spoken to, from across almost all sectors that I want to go into like structured products, project finance, etc replied "no" when I asked whether this would raise red flags, or look suspicious. In fact, they all said that experience in a compliance-related, or risk assessment related office would be pretty beneficial.

However, I've read stuff on here and elsewhere and it looks like some people are pretty split, so I was wondering if you guys had any thoughts regarding doing this and possible consequences/benefits.

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