Emerging Markets, Emerging Russia, Emerging Views
By Ivan Anderzhanov
Russia’s Aton Capital is to open offices in London and Almaty a year after the investment banking business was relaunched.
The Moscow-based equity brokerage is looking to expand further in the UK and Kazakhstan having already hired a 50-strong Moscow team , according to a report in Vedomosti.
Evgeny Yuriev, the president and founder of [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Russia’s Renaissance Group has hired a former Blackrock star fund manager Plamen Monovski for its new investment arm in a bid to replicate the success of its investment bank.
The company said yesterday it had hired Monovski, formerly head of emerging markets at US fund giant Blackrock, as chief investment officer of the newly [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov in Mosocw
The London Stock Exchange and the Micex today launched a Russian IPO information platform to serve the growing pipeline of Russian companies seeking to list overseas.
The site, which is located at www.RussianIPO.com, provides companies, advisers and market participants with access to trading information, news and statistics from Russia and the CIS [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Russia’s Renaissance Capital has boosted its London-based metals and mining capabilities with the appointment of Roger Murphy as head of metals and mining sales and Jeremy Wrathall as head of London metals and mining origination within the investment banking division.
Murphy joins from Canaccord, where he has been head of resource and international sales [...]
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By Marcus Williams in London
Doug Welch, a former head of equity derivatives sales at Troika Dialog in London, has resurfaced at Italian bank Unicredit in a senior role.
Welch, who started at Unicredit’s in December, has been charged with building out a derivatives flow-trading platform to augment the bank’s geographical strengths in Western, Central and Eastern [...]
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By Marcus Williams
Bank of America Merrill Lynch today named David Jervis as head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to succeed Eva Castillo when she departs at the end of the year.
Jervis, a 16-year Merrill veteran, is currently head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Senior Relationship Management [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov
Japanese investment bank Nomura today announced that Michael Hagmann is joining the firm as a managing director in January to head capital goods, aerospace and defence equity research for EMEA.
Hagmann returns to the sell-side after leaving Swiss bank UBS in 2007 when he became a partner in the industrials boutique, H2W.
“Michael Hagmann is [...]
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By Jason Corcoran in Moscow
The London Stock Exchange believes dual Russian stock listings in Moscow and London will endure in spite of plans to curb the amount firms can sell overseas.
The new rules, which are due to come into force from January 1, aim to restrict domestic companies from running to foreign exchanges by retaining [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow
Herbert Moos has taken up his new duties as chief financial officer of VTB and deputy chief executive.
A VTB official confirmed the report, according to the press service Interfax.
Moos takes over from Nikolai Tsekhomsky, who quit in September after four years in the job to take up a senior role leading [...]
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By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow
Former Citigroup banker Tom King will become head of investment banking for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at Barclays Capital in December.
King will replace John Winter who will become chief executive of Barclays corporate bank. He will report to Barcap’s head of global investment banking Hugh ‘Skip’ McGee.
The [...]
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By Jason Corcoran in Moscow
Russian brokerage firm Otkritie has hired the former head of Troika Dialog’s UK operation and a senior trader in a expansion of its business.
Howard Snell, the former UK chief executive of Troika Dialog, has joined Otkritie as a London-based director. He will be responsible for the firm’s UK business strategy. In [...]
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By Jason Corcoran
Ashmore Investment Management, the specialist emerging markets investment manager, has today been granted a license by the Chinese financial regulator to access their domestic funds markets.
The QFII licence and its pending quota permit Ashmore to invest in domestic Chinese securities across a range of underlying asset classes, listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen [...]
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