DCM vs Financial Institutions Sales Rotation

Hey guys, I'm gonna start an S&T internship this summer at a bank that focuses on EM (quite strong in Asia) at a local European office. For my first rotation I'm on the corporate sales team (covering all products for corp clients) and for my second which will last the second half of the internship there are two options available: 1. DCM 2. Financial Institutions Sales

I honestly don't really know what 2. exactly entails but it seems like it would be like corp sales but covering FI instead of corporates. Which one do you think offers me a more interesting learning opportunity?

Note that I have already scored an internship for summer 2025 in S&T in London as well and want to do trading then (ideally very quantitative macro desks) and def don't see myself in sales.

Advantage of 1. would be getting to try out sth new and totally different as it's more transaction based and advantage of 2. would be possibly that I might learn more relevant things about various products relevant for my next internship. And I think generally financial institutions are pretty interesting (at least seem far more interesting than corporates to me).

What would you go for?

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