The appointment strengthens the bank's global equity capital markets capabilities, with a focus on corporate derivatives and equity-linked financing.

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has appointed Mariano Gaut as global head of strategic equity solutions within its equity capital markets (ECM) team, with the banker set to join from Mizuho Financial Group in January 2027. Gaut will be based in New York and will lead the structuring of corporate derivatives and origination of convertible bond transactions globally RBC confirmed the appointment to SRP. Gaut will be based in New York and will lead the structuring of corporate derivatives and origin