RBC Appoints Flavio Paparella as Head of Institutional Structured Products Sales for Latin America

 

RBC Continues to Build its Presence in the Region
 

NEW YORK, June 27, 2008 - RBC Capital Markets today announced the appointment of Flavio Paparella as a Director and Head of Institutional Structured Products Sales for Latin America, marking another step in RBC's ongoing expansion in Latin America.

 

Paparella will oversee the expansion of RBC's institutional structured products sales in Latin America, initially focusing on countries where the firm has a presence  - such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Panama - and eventually expanding the RBC's efforts throughout the region.  He will work closely with financial institutions, pension funds, hedge funds, central banks, insurance companies, corporations, and ministries of finance.  RBC already offers a wide range of structured products globally.

 

Paparella was most recently with Bank of Ireland, where he headed the financial institutions desk that included Latin American banks, hedge funds and corporations, and U.S. hedge funds, pension funds and asset management firms.  Previously, he was a senior director with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he was responsible for Latin American Financial Institution Sales and Latin American FX related business with U.S. hedge funds.

 

A native of Argentina, Paparella received his MBA and bachelor's degree in accounting from Buenos Aires University.

 

About RBC Capital Markets

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of RBC and is active globally in debt origination, sales and trading, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, structured products, metals and mining, and energy. Its North American platform includes a significant U.S. middle market investment banking franchise and leading equity, underwriting, sales, trading and research businesses. Bloomberg ranks the firm as the 12th largest investment bank globally.

 

 

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For more information, please contact:
Kevin Foster, RBC Capital Markets, (212) 428-6902, kevin.foster@rbccm.com

Loretta Healy, The Hubbell Group, Inc., (781) 878-8882, lhealy@hubbellgroup.com