ABN Amro has boosted its high-yield team by hiring five people just three months after the Dutch bank brought in James Courtenay to spearhead a return to the junk market.

The new head of leveraged finance and high yield at ABN Amro has poached his former CIBC colleagues Vincent Gomez, a trader, Andrew Macmillan, a salesman, and Claire Edwards, in a supporting role, and has also hired Dario de Greiff from French broker Aurel Leven and Justin Burley from Barclays Capital.