By Marcus Williams
Merrill Lynch has made three senior appointments to the bank’s Russia sales and trading team as part of the company’s push in emerging markets.
In equities, director Alisdair Wade, a ten-year veteran of global markets, has been named head of Russian equity distribution. Wade has been working with the bank in UK since 2006, first as a director of European equity sales and most recently as head of equity cross product sales and sales trading. He will relocate from London to Moscow.
Ekaterina Myasina joins Wade’s Moscow team as a director of equity sales trading from Morgan Stanley where she was deputy head of the equities and derivatives trading department for Russia. Previously, she held senior positions in other financial institutions, including Troika Dialog, where she was a senior sales trader in equity sales.
In FICC, Alexey Poliakov joins as director of structured products and derivatives sales from from Kopernik Group, where he served as vice president. He has previously been director of structured products sales at Deutsche Bank, and director of structured solutions, debt product group at Renaissance Capital.
Bernie Sucher, Merrill Lynch country executive and co-head of global markets for Russia, said in a statement: “Having made several strategic hires last year, these new appointments will enhance, still further, our offering in Russia as we look to grow and strengthen our Russian business.”
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