Americans in Britain

Our specialist service is designed to remove the time and stress of dealing with your financial needs whilst living in the UK.

As an American currently or soon to become resident of the UK, you can face a bewildering array of financial options and potential tax headaches:

  • How do you open a bank account and obtain a credit card with no UK credit or residential history?
  • How should your non-US assets and income be structured and in what jurisdiction?
  • How do you avoid unnecessary double taxation?

These are just some of the questions we are routinely asked by new, and often, not so new, residents of the UK, most of whom do not have much spare time to devote to answering these.

As bankers to a number of Americans in the UK, we understand many of the differences between the way that you ran your life in the US and how it is best to do so in the UK. Your private banker is able to help you with most aspects of your financial requirements including:

  • On and offshore banking
  • Property finding and financing
  • Investment management
  • Independent tax advisory services
  • Trust and fiduciary services.

Importantly, we have built up a significant amount of knowledge on other organisations that provide services that you may need to seek over time and we can help you find the right people to work with on areas such as:

  • US / UK estate planning and will preparation
  • Immigration planning
  • General legal advice.

We believe in forging long term relationships and continue to look after many of our clients international financial affairs after they return to the US, regularly travelling to many of the major cities there to see them.

Next steps

We would be delighted to discuss how we might be able to help further. To find out if you can join Coutts, please complete our enquiry form and we will be in touch. Alternatively, please contact us on +44 (0)20 7753 1963.