RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada, has hired Minako Endo as Director Head of Institutional Fixed Income Sales in its Tokyo office.
Endo joins RBC Capital Markets from Merrill Lynch in Japan, where she was Director of Non-Yen Bond Sales. Prior to this Endo was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank, focusing on non-yen bond sales.
Minakos arrival strengthens our growing platform in Tokyo and is part of our commitment to continue growing our business in Asia, says Andrew Nemec, head of fixed income & currencies, Japan, RBC Capital Markets.We are able to expand our footprint in this way because of the strength and stability of our enterprise.
RBC Capital Markets also has hired Chris Tam as Director in its Hong Kong office. Both Asian hires follow the announcement last week that RBC Capital Markets has recently bolstered its European platform, hiring Carmine Meoli, Arif Hussein and Peter Drewienkiewicz to work in its Fixed Income & Currencies sales and trading team in London. RBC Capital Markets has continued to make senior hires during the market dislocation, hiring in excess of 300 people throughout its global capital markets operations over the last twelve months.
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