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RBC hires trio in London

Andrew Willis

It was a busy Canada Day in London from Royal Bank of Canada, with three executives hired to bolster the investment dealer arm of the country’s largest bank.

RBC Dominion Securities welcomed UBS Securities veterans Arif Hussein and Peter Drewienkiewicz to its currency and fixed income sales team. Mr. Hussein was head of sterling swaps at UBS in London, while Mr. Drewienkiewicz was an executive director in the fixed income derivatives group.

And Carmine Meoli was named head of ‘private banking solutions sales’ within the structured equity and commodity group in London. He spent the past 15 years of in structured products at ABN Amro and Deutsche Bank.

Over the past year, as many investment banks have shed talent, Royal Bank RY-T has added more than 300 executives to its global capital markets teams. The dealer is also profitably increasing market share in global fixed income and currency markets.

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