Recruiting for the US as a UK graduate?
What is the quickest/best routes to get into US IB coming from the UK?
For reference I'm at a target uni in the UK (2026 Grad) and have a summer at a mm bank. Im trying to figure out what to do now for recruiting for 2026 grads if my goal is to move to US (NYC preferably) - is it easier/even feasible to attempt to recruit directly into US programmes, and how would I go about networking with US bankers? Or is it a better idea to just recruit into UK and request to internally relocate/lateral to another bank in the US?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
If you're not a US citizen, forget recruiting into the US.
Internal transfer UK -> US are possible and probably the only real way for non-US citizens but they're not that common. Has to be significant pull from the US side.
How to go about it if you are a us citizen?
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Network online and apply to US internships, just like everyone else tbh.
Ideally, don't do uni in the UK in the first place and if you do, do it at an internationally-known target.
How hard is it to internally transfer?
these posts continue to crop up and they are all straight up delulu like bro you are not going to recruit straight into NYC forget it
What are the roadblocks though - visa, citizenship etc? Or the general problems that arise by moving to a new country
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