Emerging Markets, Emerging Russia, Emerging Views
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Russian investment bank VTB Capital has made another five hires since mid-June as part of its bid to increase personnel this year by 40% to 1,000.
Four of the newcomers are posted at the Moscow office of VTB Capital. Three of these come from rival Russian investment banks.
Pavel Vasilyev, [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Mark Robinson, former head of equity research at Italian bank UniCredit, has resurfaced at Wood & Company, an independent investment bank headquartered in Prague.
Robinson had a six-year stint as a fund manager with JP Morgan before taking the London-based position as global head of equity research and chief [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Moscow-headquartered bank KIT Finance, one of the companies under the sway of rail monopoly Russian Railways (RZD), has elected a new board of directors, handing the reins of chairmanship to Yury Novozhilov, president of RZD-controlled TransCreditBank.
Novozhilov and five others on the seven-member board, elected at an annual shareholders’ meeting [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Deutsche Bank is fighting back to regain its position as a leading investment bank in Russia with the senior hiring of Marina Kraschenko as head of Russian equity capital markets.
The German bank, which has surrendered leading positions in equity and debt capital markets to Renaissance Capital and VTB [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Barclays Capital, the British investment bank, has made its most senior Moscow hire since landing Bob Foresman last year to lead its renewed assault on the Russian market.
Vladimir Pantyushin joined Barclay Capital’s Russian operation as chief economist after a role as head of research for Russia and [...]
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By Marcus Williams
William Calvert, the head of emerging markets at UK-based Axa Framlington and manager of the £240m emerging markets fund, has quit.
Ming Kemp and Neil Denman, who work alongside Calvert, are also to leave the group.
Mark Beveridge, head of Axa Framlington, and Irina Topa-Serry, manager of the Axa World [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Barclays Capital, the investment banking subsidiary of the British bank, has kicked off its coverage of Russian stocks.
A London-based team of analysts today initiated coverage on Russia’s leading oil and gas majors.
The team is led by Ilya Balabanovksy, who previously worked at JP Morgan as an oil analyst. [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
MDM Bank today named Sergei Timofeev to replace Igor Kim as head of Russia’s second-biggest private lender
Timofeev spent eight years working in senior positions at MDM Bank with experience gained in the Far East and the Urals. He joined MDM in 2001 as a branch manager in Vladivostock.
MDM Bank [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Anton Tabakh has quit as senior fixed income analyst with Troika Dialog, becoming the latest in a series of defections from the Moscow investment bank.
Tabakh told EmergingMarkets.me the reason for his exit was that Troika Dialog’s fixed income business had been undergoing an evolution that was making his [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Newly-listed Jupiter Asset Management has hired Kathryn Langridge as an emerging markets fund manager and will soon launch a new fund for her to run.
Langridge has over 20 years experience as an emerging markets manager and will join Jupiter’s emerging markets fund desk in September from Lloyd George Asset [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Senior analyst Brady Martin has left Deutsche Bank and will shortly join Citigroup in Moscow.
Brady was part of a raft of hires made by Deutsche in the summer of 2008 in the wake of over 100 bankers quitting the German bank to join VTB Capital.
He joined from Alpha Bank where he was responsible [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Deutsche Bank has boosted its global markets business in Russia with the hiring of Bulent Ilgun as head of treasury and Evgeny Monakhov as head of Russian equity sales.
Ilgun, who joins from Credit Europe Bank in Moscow, will be responsible for Deutsche’s industry local rates and fx business in [...]
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