By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has appointed one of its senior managers, Vyacheslav Tsybulnikov, as head of its division for clients in the engineering industry. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
Sberbank hires CFO, HR chief for investment arm
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has made two senior appointments for its investment arm Sberbank CIB, hiring Paul Goldfinch from Swiss bank UBS as chief financial officer and Annie Jordan from London-based headhunter Lansdowne International as head of human resources. Continue Reading
RENAISSANCE CAPITAL APPOINTS NEW CO-HEAD OF INVESTMENT BANKING, RUSSIA
Renaissance Capital has appointed Maxim Arefyev as Managing Director, Co-Head of Investment Banking, Russia. Arefyev will lead the origination and execution of M&A, equity and debt capital markets transactions in the Russia & CIS space, across consumer, retail, agriculture and other sectors, alongside Anton Cherny, Co-Head of Investment Banking, Russia. Continue Reading
RenCap gives ex-Deutsche Bank analyst senior job in MENA team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capitalhas appointed former Deutsche Bank researcher Ryan Apache as senior banking analyst in its equity research team forthe Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Continue Reading
Sberbank puts Peter Urbanczyk in charge of US investment business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has appointed Peter Urbanczyk as chief executive of the US unit of Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. Continue Reading
Russian deputy economics minister fired for slamming pension money moratorium
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Sergei Belyakov was fired on August 6 after publicly condemning the government’s one-year extension of a moratorium on the investment of assets from non-state pension funds. Continue Reading
VTB Capital appoints new interim CEO
Nick Hutt has been appointed interim CEO of VTB Capital plc. He is a key member of the VTB Capital team and has been working in the London office since 2008 as CFO of the company’s international business. Atanas Bostandjiev will be leaving his current position to pursue other business opportunities. Continue Reading
Ex-finance minister Kudrin becomes head of Moscow Exchange supervisory board
By Andrei Skvarsky. Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has been appointed as chairman of the new supervisory board of Moscow Exchange that was elected at the bourse’s annual general shareholders’ meeting on June 26. Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s Alfa Bank parts company with COO Denis Soloviev
By Andrei Skvarsky. Denis Soloviev has resigned as chief operating officer of the corporate and investment division of Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest privately owned lenders. Continue Reading
RenCap hiring for new Dubai office
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has made three hires for a new office that the Russian investment bank is due to open in Dubai later this summer, and plans more recruitments for it. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ING researcher as FX and rates chief strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Tom Levinson from ING as chief strategist for foreign exchange and rates at Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s number-one lender. Continue Reading
Asia Frontier Capital hires analyst for Southeast Asia, Mongolia
By Andrei Skvarsky. Asia Frontier Capital (AFC), a Hong Kong-based fund management company that specialises in investing in Asian frontier markets, has hired Scott Osheroff from Pathfinder Capital Management as a research analyst for Southeast Asia and Mongolia. {{{?}}} Osheroff, who joined AFC on May 1, will be based in Phnom Penh for nine months… Continue Reading
EBRD appoints Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed, Francis Malige to the new position of Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. {{{?}}} Mr Malige assumed his role 1 May. He is responsible for leading the Bank’s operations in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Initially based in London, he will be relocating to Kiev later in the… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires bankers from Deutsche, J.P. Morgan for M&A unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Igor Ushakov from Deutsche Bank and Vadim Marchuk from J.P. Morgan as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) directors at Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. {{{?}}} Ushakov worked in the European industrials and M&A groups at Merrill Lynch prior to his six-year London-based job as a director… Continue Reading
RenCap makes top appointments for Turkey team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has hired Mike Harris from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as chief strategist for the Russian investment bank’s business in Turkey and made four other senior appointments for its Turkish team. {{{?}}} Harris will be based between London and Istanbul and report to David Nangle, Head of equity research at… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s BCS hires ex-RBS banker to run global collateral trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment firm BCS Financial Group has hired Christian von Gradowski, a former repo trader at Royal Bank of Scotland and Dresdner Kleinwort, as director of collateral trading at its global markets arm. Von Gradowski will be based at BCS’s London office and “focus on the repo and stock loan presence to… Continue Reading
Veteran banker Sucher to co-oversee Credit Bank of Moscow business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Credit Bank of Moscow (CBM), a high-profile privately owned lender, has given a seat on its newly elected supervisory board to Bernie Sucher, an American who has been a key figure in building Russia’s investment banking. {{{?}}} The other two newcomers on the board are Thomas Grasse, a nominee of the European… Continue Reading
RenCap makes two senior hires for global fixed income team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capital has re-hired one of its former senior managers, Rupert Preece, putting him in charge of Sub-Saharan fixed income trading, and hired Marina Ryabokon from Australian mortgage broker Liquidity Finance as director in its international fixed income sales service. {{{?}}} Both Preece and Ryabokon will be based in London, RenCap… Continue Reading
RenCap names chiefs for South Africa
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, one of Russia’s top-tier investment banks, has announced a minor reshuffle in its African business, promoting Robert Lamprecht, who joined the firm last month, to chief executive for South Africa and appointing Clifford Sacks as chairman of the South African unit. {{{?}}} Lamprecht was hired by RenCap in January as… Continue Reading
RenCap hires banker from Goldman Sachs to run London trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Russian emerging- and frontier-markets investment bank, has hired David George from Goldman Sachs as head of trading in London. {{{?}}} George will be based in London in his new job, which he takes in March, and report to RenCap’s global head of equities, Ben Samuels. His duties will include… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires banker from UBS to run HNWI group
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Alla Aleynikova from Swiss bank UBS to head the group servicing high-net-worth individuals. {{{?}}} Aleynikova is based in Moscow in her new job with Sberbank Private Banking, having relocated from New York, where she worked at UBS’s international division. Previously she spent 11 years at Citigroup… Continue Reading
Ex-Citi banker gets senior job at Sberbank’s CEE unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Tamas Haiman from Citibank as head of global markets at Sberbank Europe AG, its Central and Eastern European operation. {{{?}}} Haiman, who joins Sberbank on February 3, will be based in Vienna and report to Igor Strehl at Sberbank Europe and Alexey Zaytsev at the global… Continue Reading
Sberbank raises adviser to vice-presidential seat
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has promoted one of its senior advisers, Teimur Shternlib, to the position of vice-president. {{{?}}} Shternlib has been an adviser to chief operating officer Lev Khasis at Sberbank, which he joined last year after roles as chief investment officer at Russia’s Х5 Retail Group and IT director at… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires Swiss bankers as commodities unit traders
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank CIB, the investment unit of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has hired two Swiss bankers as senior traders for the commodities unit of its global markets department. {{{?}}} Sergio Soler, who comes from Swiss bank Julius Bär, has been appointed as senior precious metals trader, and Franck-Eric Fischer joins from Geneva-based consultancy… Continue Reading
UBS hires ex-Morgan Stanley bankers as Russia chiefs
By Andrei Skvarsky. UBS has hired two senior former Morgan Stanley bankers to run its Russian operation. {{{?}}} Rair Simonyan is joining the Swiss bank as chairman and Elena Titova as chief executive of its Russian subsidiary, UBS said in a statement. Both are coming over from Russian Regional Development Bank, which is owned by… Continue Reading
Eurex chief to join Swiss bank Lombard Odier as managing partner
By Andrei Skvarsky. Eurex, a derivatives exchange owned by Deutsche Boerse, is going to part company with its chairman Hugo Banziger, who has been appointed as a managing partner of Lombard Odier, one of Europe’s largest private banking firms. {{{?}}} The Swiss economist’s appointment as the ninth managing partner of the oldest private bank in… Continue Reading
Russia’s Renaissance hires ex-BofA banker to run Africa sales
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, one of Russia’s leading privately owned investment banks, has confirmed it has hired Robert Lamprecht, a former senior manager at Bank of America, as head of African sales. {{{?}}} Lamprecht will be based in Johannesburg, where one of RenCap’s three African offices are located. He will report to Florian Hellmich,… Continue Reading
US Revere Capital Advisors sets up merchant banking group, makes hires
By Andrei Skvarsky. Revere Capital Advisors, a New York- and London-based financial services boutique, has set up a merchant banking group, Revere Merchant Capital (RMC), and made three senior hires for the new firm. {{{?}}} “RMC will lead and co-invest in equity and debt financings in connection with change of control, acquisition and expansion capital… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-RBS banker as head of FX
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Frederic Blondel, a former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and ABN AMRO banker, as head of foreign exchange and flow derivatives corporate sales at Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. {{{?}}} Blondel, who will be based in Moscow and has more than 20 years’ experience in… Continue Reading