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About Desjardins Capital Markets
A financial services leader in North America
Desjardins Capital Markets is a leading North American financial services firm and a division of Desjardins Financial Group, Canada's leading cooperative financial group with more than $389 billion in assets.
Desjardins Capital Markets favours an integrated approach, offering clients in the institutional, corporate and public sectors all over the world direct access to experienced Desjardins Group professionals and a wide range of products and services.
We deliver comprehensive, value-added products and services to our corporate, cooperative, and institutional clients.
Our fully integrated approach aligns our broad research capabilities and proven sales and trading force with experienced corporate and investment banking teams, while leveraging our extensive retail network.
Alphonse Desjardins founded the first "caisse populaire", or people's bank, in Lévis, Quebec on December 6, 1900, and operations began on January 23, 1901.
Hundreds of similar "caisses" started up over the ensuing decades until a provincial organization under the name Desjardins was formed in 1932. Desjardins Financial Group now has the second-largest branch network in Canada.
In the following decades, Desjardins diversified beyond its retail banking origins to offer a comprehensive range of products and services, including:
- Insurance
- Asset management
- Estate planning
- Venture capital
- Wealth management
- Advisory and M&A
- Capital markets
- Personal banking
- Small and medium enterprise financing
- Credit cards
Today, Desjardins is one of the best capitalized financial institutions in the world, with more than $389 billion in assets. It is one of the world's safest financial institutions, with a Tier 1 capital ratio of 21.4%, and has one of the highest credit ratings in the Canadian banking industry: Moody's Aa1; Standard & Poors A+; Fitch AA; and Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) AA.
Desjardins Capital Markets
Desjardins Capital Markets was formed to leverage the Desjardins platform and provide a fully integrated approach to institutional, corporate and public sector clients.
Our services include corporate and investment banking, equity and fixed income research, sales and trading, and fixed income.
Capital Markets
Mark Lucey
Executive Managing Director
Group Head, Capital Markets
Phone: 416-607-3011
Contact by emailMark Lucey, Executive Managing Director
François Carrier
Managing Director
Co-Head, Capital Markets and Head of Investment Banking
Phone: 514-985-3587
Contact by email François Carrier, Co-Head, Capital Markets and Head of Investment Banking
François Carrier joined Desjardins Capital Markets in 2011, as Managing Director, Investment Banking. He had previously held a similar position with a bank-owned investment dealer. François has been active as an investment banker since 1999, when he began his career at an independent investment bank. His professional practice is varied and serves issuers of all sizes, private and public. He has advised issuers in the context of initial public offerings, new issues, private placements and M&A activities, in Canada, Europe and the United States. He is a graduate from the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
Mathieu Talbot
Vice President
Business Services and Corporate Banking
Phone: 514-281-8785
Contact by email Mathieu Talbot, Vice President, Business Services and Corporate Banking
As Managing Director and Head of Corporate Banking at Desjardins Capital Markets since January 2017, Mathieu Talbot is responsible for the business development, management and leadership of his sector. He is an active contributor to the strategic alternatives undertaken by Capital Markets as well as a member of its management committee.
Since joining the ranks of Desjardins in 2011, Mathieu has held several positions, including Managing Director and Head of Syndication which involved oversight responsibilities regarding the execution of syndicated loans for Desjardins’ commercial and corporate financing platforms.
The Corporate Banking Group serves a diversified gamut of public and private companies in need of complex and innovative financing structures. The Group has become a leading player in the financing of public and private infrastructure in Canada, thanks to its in-depth understanding of challenges involved with alternative funding arrangements as well as its ability to assist clients with large-scale projects.
Prior to joining Desjardins, Mathieu spent several years working in banking syndication and investment banking for another leading Canadian financial institution. He holds a joint MBA degree from York University/Université Laval.
Pierre Morin
Managing Director
Head of Fixed Income Group
Phone: 514-284-9842
Contact by email Pierre Morin, Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Group
Pierre Morin joined the ranks of Desjardins Capital Markets in 2005 as Chief Fixed Income Desk Trader and then took charge of the Fixed Income Group from 2010 to 2015. Pierre then joined the ranks of a Canadian hedge fund before returning to his position as Senior Director and Head of the Fixed Income Group of Desjardins in 2020. Pierre oversees the trading, institutional sales, preferred share, financing as well as futures & options teams. Pierre holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Université Laval and an MBA from McGill University. He began his career at Goldman Sachs and later joined the ranks of TD Securities and HSBC where he evolved as Vice President & Director – Fixed Income Trading.
Ryan Godfrey
Managing Director
Head of Origination and Syndication
416-867-2268
Contact by e-mail Ryan Godfrey
Ryan joined Desjardins Securities in 2008 and has over 15 years of experience in managing debt capital markets transactions for Canadian and international borrowers. Previously, Ryan was with HSBC in debt capital markets and investment banking. Ryan has extensive experience in a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including lead management roles for large government, financial, corporate, infrastructure and Maple borrowers. Ryan is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Frédéric Girard
Managing Director
Head of Institutional Equities
Phone: 514-985-1794
Contact by email Frédéric Girard, Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equities
Frédéric Girard joined Desjardins Capital Markets in 2019 as Managing Director. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York in International Equity Sales and Trading. He returned to Canada in 2004 with Credit Suisse First Boston and subsequently joined National Bank of Canada where he held the position of Head of Institutional Equity Trading. Frederic has in-depth knowledge of North American equity markets both from investment and issuance standpoints. He's a graduate from the HEC Business School.
Bill Cabel
Managing Director
Head of Research
416-867-7590
Contact by e-mail Bill Cabel
Bill Cabel joined Desjardins Securities in 2014. Bill previously worked at Stifel Nicolaus, Jacob Securities and TD Newcrest in equity research. Subsequently, Bill was appointed Head of Research. Bill holds a BA, Honours and Life Sciences and an MSc in Neuroscience from Queen’s University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Schulich School of Business.
Danny Charette
Managing Director
Head of Operations
Phone: 514-281-7703
Contact by email Danny Charette, Managing Director, Head of Operations
Danny Charette has been Managing Director and Head of Operations at Desjardins Capital Markets since January 2022. He sits on the management committee of Desjardins Securities and is on the board of directors of Desjardins Securities International in addition to occupying the role of chief financial officer of the latter. Danny has held various positions at Desjardins since 2006, including overseeing, as Managing Director, the financial and operational performance of the Capital Markets group. Previously, he held various positions related to accounting and financial management in a large firm and large-scale companies, including 2 years in Europe. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA in finance and accounting from the Quebec university network.
Our offices in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver serve both domestic and international clients. Our national presence allows us to efficiently deliver global solutions adapted to the specific needs of our clients, in the areas of corporate and investment banking, equity, fixed income and research.
Montreal
1170 Peel Street
Suite 300
Montréal, QC
H3B 0A9
514-281-2244
1-877-780-1171
Toronto
25 York Street
Suite 1000
Toronto, ON
M5J 2V5
416-607-3001
1-855-607-3001
Calgary
110 9th Avenue SW Suite 410
Calgary, AB
T2P 0T1
403-532-6601
1-877-532-6601
Vancouver
401 West Georgia Street Suite 1050
Vancouver, BC
V6B 5A1
604-678-5302
1-866-894-2172
European Securities Network
In addition to our Canadian presence, we also provide our clients with access to international markets through our exclusive distribution agreement with European Securities Network (ESN),
a consortium of 9 European investment banks with access to over 1,000 institutional investors in Europe.
For more information about ESN, please contact:
Mark Lucey
Executive Managing Director
Group Head, Capital Markets
Phone: 416-607-3011
Contact by emailMark Lucey, Executive Managing Director
François Carrier
Managing Director
Co-Head, Capital Markets and
Head of Investment Banking
Phone: 514-985-3587
Contact by email François Carrier, Co-Head, Capital Markets and Head of Investment Banking
Frédéric Girard
Managing Director
Head of Institutional Equities
Phone: 514-985-1794
Contact by email Frédéric Girard, Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equities
