Andrew Mitola had never heard of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. until he met recruiters for the bank during his junior year of college.
Now the New Jersey native is among the first to join Japan's biggest lender under an overseas graduate hiring program it introduced to secure talent from abroad. He and 18 others from branches in the U.S. and U.K. went to Tokyo for three weeks of training last month, marking the end of their two-year induction.
"They're very dedicated to seeing us grow and to bridging the gap across the cultures," said Mitola, 25, a foreign-currency salesman at MUFG's New York branch. "They really want to make this a global bank."