A brace of well-known bankers have left RBC Capital in Europe, in a rare example of employee departures from the Canadian bank that has been on a hiring drive.

Avril Pomper, head of fixed income and financial product sales at RBC Capital Markets in Europe, has left the firm, along with Jeremy Grime, the former head of stockbroker Arden Partners, who joined RBC last year as financial sector strategist, according to the Financial Services Authority's register of authorised persons and a source close to the firm.