Financial Institutions

Venkat (Vinnie) Badinehal serves as the Head of the Financial Institutions Group within Global Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets. Based in New York, Mr. Badinehal specializes in providing strategic, capital markets, balance sheet and M&A advisory services to financial institutions clients.

Prior to RBC, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Financial Institutions Group in the Americas at Deutsche Bank leading the investment banking coverage of financial institutions clients in the Americas.  Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Badinehal was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group.  Mr. Badinehal has served as an advisor on some of the industry’s most notable transactions. 

Mr. Badinehal has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was an Emerging Economies Fellow. At Wharton, he was the founding Chairman of the Wharton-India Economic Forum and currently serves on the advisory board of the forum.

John Bylaard is the Managing Director and Head of the Canadian Financial Services Group in Investment Banking. He has played key roles in many advisory and public and private financings, including equity and debt offerings for life insurance, specialty finance, asset management and regulated clients. Prior to joining the Financial Services Group, John worked within Corporate Finance on a variety of initial public offerings and financings across a variety of industry sectors. 

John holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario.