The Canadian bank continues to build out its equity derivatives capabilities in the US market following several recent appointments in its Emea EQD and QIS teams.

RBC Capital Markets has bolstered its equity derivatives team in the US with two senior hires from UBS. Heravi   will join RBC as managing director and global co-head of equity derivatives flow trading in January, following the completion of his garden leave The Canadian bank has appointed  Amir Heravi , former US equity flow derivatives trading head at the Swiss bank, and  Jason Hedberg , former head of equity derivatives sales, also at UBS, according to an internal memo seen