RBC Investor & Treasury Services (RBC I&TS) is a specialist provider of asset services, custody, payments and treasury and market services for financial and other institutional investors worldwide, with over 4,500 employees in 16 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. We deliver services which safeguard client assets, underpinned by client-centric digital solutions which continue to be enhanced and evolved in line with our clients’ changing needs. Trusted with CAD 4.5 trillion in client assets under administration(1), RBC I&TS is a financially strong partner with among the highest credit ratings globally(2).
Our clients benefit from our long-standing experience and specialized expertise:
- Over 120 years of history in providing investor and treasury services
- A worldwide network of offices across three continents, with operational centres of excellence providing service support across the globe
- Part of Royal Bank of Canada, one of the strongest banks in the world(2) and one of the top 10 banks globally based on market capitalization(3)
- A focus on delivering digitally enabled products and services that transform clients’ access to data and provide them with valuable insights into their businesses
- Offshore provider with centres of excellence in Luxembourg and Dublin and over 30 years’ UCITS expertise
- Award-winning asset servicing, custody, trade finance, fund administration and transfer agency services(4)
- Foreign exchange expertise and currency hedging solutions designed to support clients in achieving best execution(5)
- A leader in Canadian cash management and transaction banking services
- Securities lending and finance services focused on efficiently maximizing client returns
- Custody services across 87 global markets
- Fund administration services in 11 global markets
Products and Services
RBC I&TS’ product and service offering includes custody, fund/investment administration, shareholder services, private capital services, performance measurement and compliance monitoring, distribution, transaction banking (including trade finance, insourced solutions and services to broker dealers), and treasury and market services (including cash/liquidity management, foreign exchange services and global securities lending).
(1) RBC quarterly results as at October 31, 2020
(2) Standard & Poor’s (AA-) and Moody’s (Aa2) legacy senior long-term debt ratings of Royal Bank of Canada as of December 1, 2020
(3) Bloomberg as at October 30, 2020
(4) R&M Investor Services Survey, 2020; Global Investor ISF–Global Custody Survey, 2020; Global Finance, 2020; R&M Fund Accounting & Administration Survey and Global Custodian–ETF Fund Administration Survey, 2020; Global Investor ISF- Investment Excellence Awards, 2020
(5) For mandated FX and currency hedging, RBC I&TS has hit rate of 100% as it is an outsourced solution