The sad tale of Orion Royal: management and personnel changes atthe Royal Bank of Canada’s subsidiary bank

Out went the traders; out, a few days later, went the man they had been chafing against, John Abell; out went two top syndicate men....

Mapping a route through the Euromarket chaos.

Orion Royal chairman John Abell went pheasant shooting the day after John Langton, head of trading and sales, walked out of the bank with the dollar bond trading desk, to join Security Pacific. These two events were not unrelated. Discontent within the bank about Abell’s alleged lack of involvement in the bank’s main money-spinner, the capital markets, contributed to Langton’s departure.

A few days after the pheasant shoot, it became known that Orion’s parent, the Royal Bank of Canada, was not renewing Abell’s contract.

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