Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s top fixed-income salesman in Europe, in one of the most high-profile hires the UK bank has made to its global banking and markets division since its partial nationalisation last October.
Antonio Polverino, the European head of fixed-income, currencies and commodities sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, quit on Tuesday this week and is expected to join RBS after three months of gardening leave, according to two headhunters.