Hi everyone, I’ll be going into FDD as a senior, does anyone have any advice for me to break into banking? Much appreciated!

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Bankers (assuming ibanking) will always want to understand your ramp time to become ‘fully operational’ as an analyst/ associate (ie modeling, knowing the deal process, valuation of companies). I know a lot of banks hire from the Big4 valuation and modeling practice simply because of the modeling skill set.

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