Emerging Markets, Emerging Russia, Emerging Views
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Ruben Aganbegyan, the former president of Renaissance Capital, is leaving the investment bank to takeover as president at Micex, the largest Russian stock exchange.
Aganbegyan, who was demoted in February this year following a shake-up by Rencap founder Stephen Jennings, will take up his new role on June 21. He replaces Konstantin Korishchenko, who [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Elbrus Capital has been launched a new Russian private equity firm, following last year’s purchase of Renaissance Private Equity from Renaissance Group.
Renaissance raised $660m for one of Russia’s biggest buyout funds over two years ago. The business was spun off by the bank in December 2009 and the fund was sliced in half [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Louise Gibney has resurfaced at Dutch bank ING a year after parting company with Troika Dialog as its London-based director of equity sales.
It is understood that Gibney will be based in London but may switch to takeover a senior sales role at ING’s offices in Moscow soon.
ING may be trying to rebuild its [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Hawk Sunshine, the head of investment banking at Metropol, is believed to be moving to a senior fund management role within the financial services group.
The switch has been triggered by the arrival of Dan Rapoport, a former banker at CenterInvext, according to a source close to Metropol. It is believed Sunshine is working [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Russia’s largest lender Sberbank has hired Dmitry Romaev as head of its new debt capital markets unit for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) from Otkritie.
Romaev, who was previously chief financial officer at Otkritie, said the unit had already hired three other bankers to work on large sovereign [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Russian brokerage Otkritie is strengthening is UK operations with the promotion of London-based Howard Snell to the role of executive chairman and Evgeny Kunts to the position of deputy chief executive officer.
The firm also said that it will be building up its sales trading team based in London over the next year while [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Dmitry Patrushev, a former vice-president at state-controlled VTB Bank, has been named as chief executive of Russian Agriculture Bank, in a big shake-up at Russia’s fourth-biggest lender.
Patrushev has some useful connections. His pater is Kremlin Security Council boss Nikolai Patrushev, who is believed to be a close comrade of prime minister Vladimir Putin.
Dmitry [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Deutsche Bank has recently hired Igor Sorokin from Troika Dialog, appointing him as vice president in charge of structuring.
The German bank seems to be back in the market for new hires following yesterday’s announcement of two analyst hires, George Buzhenitsa and Natalia Smirnova, from UniCredit Securities.
Other rivals have so far been plundering from [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Italy’s UniCredit Securities has been hit by two more defections from its Russia team following the departures of analysts George Buzhenitsa and Natalia Smirnova for Deutsche Bank.
UniCredit has suffered a number of defections and departures from its research team, not least since Aton relaunched its institutional business last [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Hawk Sunshine, the head of investment banking at Metropol, is to step aside from his current role following the brokerage’s recent recruitment of Dan Rapoport.
It is understood Sunshine, a 13-year veteran of Russia, will work with fellow Texan Rapoport before transitioning to a new role within the bank.
“Hawk [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Mike Pendill has been appointed as Middle East head of Citigroup’s Global Subsidiaries Group (GSG) in a move that reflects the firm’s focus on multinational corporations operating in the Middle East.
Pendill, who will be based in Dubai, transfers from New York, where he has led the GSG business in [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Luis Vaz Pinto, the former head of equity syndicate and corporate broking at Troika Dialog, has resurfaced at French bank Societe Generale.
Vaz Pinto is understood to be joining the French bank’s London team to work in a senior equity syndicate role. He joined Troika from JP Morgan in July [...]
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