Our approach

RBC’s Global ETF Services group provides best-in-class institutional ETF trading and market making capabilities. With trading desks in London, New York and Toronto, our team of traders, developers and quantitative researchers leverage years of expertise and a robust technology platform to facilitate comprehensive ETF consulting and execution services for our clients.

As part of RBC Global Markets, the Global ETF Services team is centrally organized to best support Asset Managers through cohesive touch points across all Capital Markets business lines and asset classes.

This cross-functional structure ensures our clients have a seamless experience throughout their product lifecycle – from Concept Development -> ETF Inception -> Trading Support -> Joint Marketing and beyond.

We offer ETF trading and Lead Market Making across asset-classes, including but not limited to:

  • Fixed income
  • Equities
  • International Equities
  • Derivatives
  • Commodities
  • Alternatives and Asset Allocation

RBC Global ETF Services include

  • The ability to attain cross-border and cross-asset class ETF execution through the same trading expert
  • Customized ETF analytics, market commentary and thought leadership pieces
  • Premier consulting services through our expertise in ETF trends and strategies

Global ETF Services

The ability to attain cross-border and cross-asset class ETF execution through the same trading expert.

Customized ETF analytics and trading analysis.

Daily ETF market commentary and thought leadership reports.

Premier consulting services through our expertise in ETF trends and strategies.

A trusted partner that can leverage its strong credit rating to help by committing capital and seed new ETFs.

Benefit growing and mature funds through ancillary execution and joint marketing endeavors.

Our Approach to Full Service ETF Trading

At RBC CM, we take an integrated approach to the ETF landscape. As a centrally located trading desk within Global Markets, we can provide best-in-class service to all investors that use ETFs in some capacity – whether helping create and list brand new ETFs to creative trading solutions for institutional portfolio managers.

ETF Issuers Institutional Clients
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Lead Market Maker on 270 ETFs /
provided $769 million in seed capital

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Lead Market Maker on 241 ETFs /
provided $909 million in seed capital

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Lead Market Maker on 156 ETFs /
provided $436 million in seed capital