GlobalCapital understands that Sean Taor is set to join Santander as its head of EMEA debt capital markets.
He left RBC Capital Markets in March, having spent 12 years at the Canadian bank. Roles included running European debt capital markets and syndicate.
Taor is a highly respected figure in the bond market. GlobalCapital named him one of its 25 most influential participants in 2012.
He is closely associated with the public sector bond market, having spent nearly 18 years at Barclays, where he rose to become global head of rates syndicate, before he joined RBC.
Santander places 18th so far this year in Dealogic's global SSA (ex-US agency) rankings. In the years 2020-2023 it ranked 22nd, 26th, 21st and 19th, respectively. However, the bank has ambitions in European debt capital markets, including SSAs.
Other senior figures within Santander's DCM business are Conor Hennebry, who is global head of corporate debt, and his boss Rafael Noya, who is global head of debt finance.
Rob Lamb, who had been head of European corporate DCM at RBC, took over as head of DCM there when Taor left.
Santander had yet to respond to a request for comment by the time GlobalCapital published this story.