Russia

By Andrei Skvarsky
HSBC has appointed Huseyin Ozkaya as chief executive of its Russian subsidiary, moving him from his current job as head of global banking at the British bank’s Turkish entity.
Ozkaya replaces Stuart Lawson, a veteran of Russian banking whose abrupt departure from Europe’s largest bank in June suggested the withdrawal [...]

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By Marcus Williams.
The relaunched Aton Capital business  has hired Pavel Dushin from Unicredit Securities in Moscow to develop its fixed income business.
Dushin was reunited with former colleagues at Aton about two months ago when he joined the brokerage. He joined UniCredit in mid-2007 after the Italian bank completed the acquisition of the original Aton Capital for the snip price of $424m.
The Aton [...]

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By Ivan Anderzhanov.
US bank Citigroup has been hit by another senior Russian departure following Igor Chernomorskiy’s exit to rival JP Morgan.
Chernomorskiy was a vice president for emerging market sales in the CEEMEA region. He has been at the bank for over four years and previously worked in sales at UralSib and Troika Dialog.
Citigroup was rocked last month when Renaissance Capital hired three sales traders [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Sberbank has hired Yury Rovensky from Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group to run the largest Russian bank’s public relations department.
The position of PR chief at the state-controlled lender, one of the jobs carrying the title of vice president, had remained vacant for about a year before it was given to Rovensky, who quit as general director of Russian [...]

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By Marcus Williams.
US bulge bracket bank Citigroup has named Slava Slavinskiy as head of energy banking for EMEA to take over from Julian Mylchreest.
Slavinskiy joined Citigroup in 1998, covering Russia and the former CIS countries.
Mylchreest quit to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch last month as co- head of global energy and power [...]

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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Will Hammond,  global equity sales head Troika Dialog, has parted company with the Moscow brokerage a little over three months after joining.
Hammond’s appointment to the job in April was one of Troika’s big signings since it sold a third of the company to South Africa’s Standard Bank
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By Andrei Skvarsky.
Russia’s MDM Bank slashed its executive board by one-third last week in a restructuring proposed by the firm’s new chief executive, Sergei Timofeyev.
All the 10 members of the new board, including Timofeyev, are to serve under five-year contracts as part of the managerial reform, praised by MDM chairman Oleg Vyugin as purportedly a [...]

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