Peter, based in New York, will report locally to Chris Innes, head of equity sales for North America and Kip Testwuide, head of fixed income origination and distribution for Americas.

He will also report globally to Talbot Stark, global head of investor relationship management for hedge funds and institutions.

Peter will join BNP Paribas with more than 20 years of international capital markets experience, most recently with The Royal Bank of Scotland as head of Financial Institutions, Americas.

Robert Earl will also join BNP Paribas as a managing director focusing on hedge funds. He will report to Chris Lane, head of the Americas hedge fund relationship management team.

Earl has 19 years of capital markets experience focusing on institutional client relationships. He began his career at Goldman Sachs before joining Barclays Capital and later co-launching Vernon Square Capital.

Chantale Goyette also joins the IRM team as a relationship manager for Canada. She joined BNP Paribas in 2007 and has since served in fixed income rates and structured credit sales positions.

Stark said that the bank look forward to further growing client business in the global spectrum under the leadership of Peter and with the addition of Robert and Goyette.