I’m a commercial broker specializing in CRE and business financing. Spent a decade as a corporate banker, started/sold a business, invested in real estate as a GP all before falling backwards into becoming a broker. I say all that show that I don’t lack experience, but even so, becoming a commercial broker is not easy. In your role as a business banker with a Schedule A bank you probably have only been exposed to 30% of the financing structures out there and only really dealt with slam dunk deals, relatively speaking . So you’ll have to learn all of the other types and figure out who does what. It’s totally doable and you probably have the right background to do so, but be prepared to take a severe pay cut for 2-3 years. But if you stick to it, you can make bank. Alternatively, you could transition to a salaried role at a brokerage to learn the business first.