RBC Says Former Employee Used Workplace Romance to Help Career

Royal Bank of Canada said an employee it fired over an intimate relationship with its former chief financial officer was focused on leveraging that alleged romance for his own personal advancement within the firm.

The bank filed a statement of defense and countersuit on Friday against Ken Mason, a former employee in RBC’s treasury department, who was dismissed in April at the same time as then-CFO Nadine Ahn.

Nadine Ahn

Royal Bank of Canada

Canada’s biggest lender alleges that Mason and Ahn carried out a close personal relationship for more than a decade. That relationship crossed the line on a number of occasions, the ...