RBC Capital Markets has been recognised with the Rising Hedge Provider, Indexed Annuity award at the SRP Americas Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

The accolade comes at a time when the Canadian bank has been expanding its QIS capabilities and resources to serve and grow its footprint in the US indexed annuity market. This includes the appointment of Geoffroy Samarcq (pictured), who joined RBC Capital Markets in July as head of multi-asset QIS structuring in New York and spent the last four years as head of global FICC & Americas equities QIS structuring at J.P. Morgan. Samarcq was charged with managing the multi-asset QIS structuring