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By Marcus Williams
Cem Habib, a partner and head of the fund of hedge funds business at Cheyne Capital, has quit the firm to join an investment bank in Kazakhstan.
The Turkish born financier Habib will work in a private equity role with a Kazakh investment bank, according to a Reuters report.
Habib, whose missus had dalliances with [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
A senior shake-up at Credit Suisse has left the investment bank without a Moscow-based head to cover the Russia, the CIS and Turkey region.
The current incumbent Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad is moving to London to replace Eric Varvel as head of Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Varvel has been [...]
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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 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
Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has confirmed to EmergingMarkets.me it has hired Jose Buera as a London-based director in its special situations group.
Buera’s Rencap job involves managing special situation deals in Africa, the CIS and Russia, and exploring opportunities in other emerging markets, particularly Latin America. The group [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Crossbridge Capital, an investment advisory firm for entrepreneurs and families, has hired Innokenty Alekseev as director in charge of its Russia and CIS team.
Alekseev joins from a London-based multi-family office, where he had been director, head of advisory and client Relations. He previously managed the Russia and [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
David May is quitting as head of equity research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at HSBC, most likely to join Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, in what is the third high-profile move among bank researchers in about a fortnight, according to Financial News.
Late in April, Richard Taylor stood down as [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
New York-based investment bank Jefferies has appointed Mark Alan Fox as a managing director and head of emerging markets distribution, Europe, after hiring three senior emerging markets professionals in Singapore in February in its global expansion of emerging markets business.
Fox, who has two decades of experience with prior stints [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
In a further sign of a thawing in Anglo-Russo relations, VTB Capital is to sponsor a major series looking at Russian business to be shown on the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The series, which will begin transmitting this month, will focus on business across Russia, examining people, companies and products.
VTB Capital, a state-controlled [...]
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has lured investment banking rainmaker Christian Meissner from Nomura.
Meissner will report to Michael Rubinoff and Purna Saggurti, co-heads of global investment banking, and drive the growth of the investment banking franchise across EMEA, according to a statement today.
He will sit on the global corporate & investment banking operating committee chaired [...]
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By Andrei Skvarsky
Mark Robinson has recently stepped down as global head of equity research and chief strategist at Italian bank UniCredit Securities.
Oxford-educated Robinson, who was based in London, quit the bank without having a new role to go to, according to several sources close to the bank.
Operating from Munich, Milan, Vienna, London and centres in [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Russia’s RTS stock exchange has opened an office in London to promote products and services and attract international investors to Moscow.
The dollar-denominated bourse obtained registration for its office in London – called RTS Exchange Europe Limited in April, according to a statement.
Yekaterina Troshinkina, a former manager for the McGraw-Hill [...]
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