Credit Suisse has promoted Edwin Low and Rizal Gozali as co-heads of investment banking for South-east Asia. In their new roles, Low and Gozali will be responsible for leading the bank’s investment banking activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Low, who has been with the bank since 1996, was previously head of Singapore and Malaysia… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
Citi Private Bank appoints Global Chief Strategist
Citi Private Bank announced the appointment of Steven Wieting as global chief strategist, with responsibility for formulating investment views and strategies globally. Wieting is currently managing director and US economist at Citi Research. He will report to Eduardo Martinez Campos, global head of investments at Citi Private Bank. Wieting will also be appointed chair of the Global Investment… Continue Reading
Merrill Lynch appoints Head of Wealth Management
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management announced that Ashvin Chhabra is joining the firm as chief investment officer, Head of Investment Management and Guidance (IMG). In his role, Chhabra will oversee the delivery of investment advice and strategy to financial advisors and their clients. He will also lead the IMG manager due diligence, investment analytics, and investment guidance teams,… Continue Reading
Esemplia Emerging Markets appoints head of Hong Kong and China equities
Esemplia Emerging Markets announced the appointment of Samantha Ho as head of Hong Kong and China equities, effective immediately. She is based in Hong Kong. Ho has overall responsibility for managing Esemplia’s Hong Kong and China equity investment team, and driving the firm’s growth plans in the market. Ho has over 25 years of experience in fund… Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank appoints regional head of global transaction banking for MEA
Deutsche Bank announced the appointment of Harold Leenen, as the regional head of global transaction banking (GTB) for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Leenen takes over from Sriram Iyer, who will relocate to London as global head of Deutsche Bank’s trust & agency services group, which provides trustee, agency, escrow and related services to corporate clients,… Continue Reading
Otkritie Capital appoints Head of IT and Head of Project Office
Russian investment bank Otkritie Capital recently appointed Yuri Yartsev as Head of IT and Grigory Kozin as Head of Projects Office at the bank. In his position, Yuri will be responsible for the general management of the department throughout Russia, the UK, the US and all of the regions covered by the company’s footprint. Yury worked for Otkritie from… Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB hires Credit Suisse banker as head of energy
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank CIB, the investment unit of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has reported one more in a recent string of senior appointments, hiring Igor Ukrasin from Credit Suisse as co-head of sector investment banking and head of energy. Ukrasin, who takes up his new job on May 14, spent 15 years at Credit… Continue Reading
CBRE announces senior hire to support Asian capital seeking global investment
CBRE has further boosted its Global Capital Markets group with a key appointment to provide specialised support to Asian capital sources seeking cross-border investment opportunities. Marc Giuffrida will join CBRE as Executive Director and will be based in Singapore from 13 May. Marc will build and lead a team across Asia to further strengthen CBRE’s… Continue Reading
Sberbank makes two hires for investment strategy roles
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has made two top hires for its investment arm Sberbank CIB, with Kingsmill Bond appointed as chief strategist and Andrey Kuznetsov as strategist, both joining from Citibank. Both will be based in Moscow and report to Andy Smith, head of equity research at Sberbank CIB, according to a statement from Sberbank.… Continue Reading
Russia’s Renaissance Capital hires head of EMEA strategy
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has handed the role of chief strategist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to Daniel Salter, whom the Moscow-based emerging markets investment bank hired from UniCredit. Salter, whose 15-year investment banking career has comprised a series of jobs in London and Moscow, was head of EMEA equity strategy… Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB’s merchant banking team welcomes two senior newcomers
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has reported two senior hires for the merchant banking team of Sberbank CIB, its investment arm. Jonathan Gillbanks joined from Kazakhstan investment group Visor Holding as managing director responsible for structuring and marketing funds for attracting external investment and focusing specifically on technology, media and telecom projects, according… Continue Reading
Prudential Real Estate Investors appoints Morgan Laughlin and Victoria Shigehira Sharpe in Asia
Prudential Real Estate Investors has named Morgan Laughlin head of its Asia business, responsible for managing the company’s operations and strategy in the Asia Pacific region. He will be based in Tokyo. Laughlin replaces Victoria Shigehira Sharpe, who has taken a new role with the global institutional relationship group for Prudential Investment Management. Based in Singapore, Sharpe will… Continue Reading
New Governor of the Bank for Slovenia
Following the change of government in Slovenia, Mr Uroš Čufer has been appointed Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia and took office on 21 March 2013, succeeding Mr Janez Šušteršič. Mr Čufer also becomes EIB Governor for the Republic of Slovenia. From 2004 until his appointment as Minister of Finance, Mr Čufer served… Continue Reading
New Governor of the Bank for Malta
Following the general election in Malta on 9 March 2013, Mr Edward Scicluna has taken office as Minister for Finance. Mr Scicluna also becomes EIB Governor for the Republic of Malta. He was also elected in 2009 to the European Parliament where he served for four years as Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs… Continue Reading
Sberbank puts ex-RBS banker in charge of FICC sales
Sberbank has hired Peter Urbanczyk from Royal Bank of Scotland as head of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) sales for the Americas. {{{*}}} Urbanczyk, whose investment banking career spans over 28 years and includes jobs with Bear Stearns, Credit Lyonnais and National Westminster Bank, will be based at the US office of Sberbank CIB, Sberbank’s… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Barclays banker to run forex trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Steven Weller, a former Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Citi banker {{{*}}}, as head of foreign exchange trading at the largest Russian lender’s investment arm, Sberbank CIB. Weller, who joined Sberbank on March 22, is based in Moscow, Sberbank said in a statement. He has spent over two decades working… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: BrokerCreditService hires ex-UBS banker as senior utilities analyst
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService (BCS) has hired Igor Goncharov, a former researcher {{{*}}} with Swiss bank UBS and Dutch lender ING, as senior utilities analyst. Goncharov took up his Moscow-based position at BCS on March 11, Luis Saenz, head of equity and derivatives sales and trading at the firm’s London office, told EmergingMarkets.me.… Continue Reading
Gazprombank names ex-Swiss banker as head of asset management
Gazprombank has appointed Aylin Suntay, a former Swiss banker who joined the Russian lender in September 2012, {{{*}}} as head of asset management. Suntay headed the small cap equities business at Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management for over a decade before leaving the firm a year ago. In her new position, she replaces Anatoly Miliukov, who… Continue Reading
Former Russian unit of Barclays hires investment banking chief
Moscow’s Expobank, the former Russian retail unit of British bank Barclays, has hired Nikita Riauzov, {{{*}}} an ex-top manager at Russian lender MDM, as head of corporate and investment banking. Riauzov spent nine and a half years at MDM, one of Russia’s largest private banks, first as head of corporate and investment business and then,… Continue Reading
RenCap hires IT chief from BrokerCreditService
Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank focusing on emerging markets, has hired {{{*}}} Vladimir Gibenko from Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService (BCS) as head of information technology. Gibenko took up his new job on March 1, RenCap said in a statement. He returned to Renaissance, where he held IT-related positions before taking charge of the IT service at BCS. Gibenko worked at Alfa-Bank… Continue Reading
Otkritie puts deputy CEO Romaev in charge of Nomos
Russia’s Otkritie financial group has given an extra role to Dmitry Romaev, its deputy chief executive and chief {{{*}}} financial officer, by appointing him as chief executive officer of Nomos, a Moscow bank bought out by Otkritie in autumn 2012. As head of Nomos, Romaev succeeds Dmitry Sokolov, who was the lender’s chief executive since… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Goldman Sachs hires ex-Deutsche banker to run MENA unit
Goldman Sachs has hired Saleh Romeih, who left Deutsche Bank in September, as head of {{{*}}} securities division distribution for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to a financial market source. Romeih, who spent 18 years at Deutsche, was the German bank’s head for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa,… Continue Reading
Wermuth’s pro-environment fund pulls off second deal in short while
By Andrei Skvarsky. Wermuth Asset Management, a German firm with most of its business interests in Russia, has reported a second transaction by its sustainable energy-focused Green Gateway Fund, with the previous deal announced just three days ago. {{{*}}} Green Gateway Fund, whose legal name is Europe-Tatarstan Cleantech Fund, led a group of investors that put… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: RenCap promotes analyst Vladimir Sklyar to head of Russia research
Renaissance Capital has promoted Vladimir Sklyar, one of its senior equity analysts, to head of research for Russia, the country the Moscow-based investment bank sees as its core market. {{{*}}} Sklyar joined RenCap in 2007, and last year was promoted to head of utilities research, the position he will combine with his new role, according… Continue Reading
EBRD to have permanent office in Jordan
By Andrei Skvarsky. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to have a permanent office in Amman under a recent agreement with the Jordanian government. {{{*}}} The EBRD said in a statement that it had appointed Heike Harmgart, one of its senior economists, as head of the office. The EBRD, which began investing in… Continue Reading
Russia’s Aton hires ex-UBS banker to run new brokerage arm
Russia’s Aton investment group has hired Alexei Sizov, a former UBS, JP Morgan and Renaissance Capital banker, as head of institutional business at its new brokerage Aton Capital. {{{*}}} Sizov will oversee the equity, fixed income, treasury, direct market access and research units and the brokerage’s office in London, the Moscow-based group said in a… Continue Reading
Wermuth reports deal, two senior appointments
By Andrei Skvarsky. The Green Gateway Fund, a 110m-euro investment fund run by Germany’s Wermuth Asset Management, has acquired a minority stake in The Mobility House (TMH), a Germany-based provider of charging equipment for electric vehicles. {{{*}}} Wermuth’s statement that reported the deal did not disclose the size of the stake. Wermuth, a firm with… Continue Reading
RenCap hires traders from Alfa-Bank, Aton
Russia’s Renaissance Capital has announced it has hired Dmitry Ryzhkov from Alfa-Bank as vice president and equity sales trader for Russia and the CIS and Yury Nefedov from Aton as associate and fixed income currencies and commodities (FICC) trader. {{{*}}} Ryzhkov worked as an equity sales trader at UniCredit Aton from 2006 to 2008 before… Continue Reading
Moscow Exchange hires former LSE exec to run intl sales
The Moscow Exchange has hired Tom O’Brien from TMX Group, the firm operating the Toronto Stock Exchange, as head of international sales. {{{*}}} O’Brien will be based in London and starts his new job in April, the Moscow bourse said in a statement. He has spent 17 years at the London Stock Exchange in various roles… Continue Reading