The UK business of Canadian investment bank Canaccord Genuity – formed in 2011 through its purchase of UK stockbroker Collins Stewart Hawkpoint – has delivered a period of record quarterly performance.

Canaccord Genuity this morning reported a 53% quarter-on-quarter increase in UK revenues to C$65.7 million ($59.3 million) in the three months to end of December - its fiscal third-quarter of 2014.