by admin on April 13, 2010
By Andrei Skvarsky
Alexander Stepanov, a co-owner of Russian energy equipment producer Energomash, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the High Court in England for trying to dodge his commitments under a defaulted loan agreement with Kazakhstan’s largest bank BTA.
The bank claim Stepanov, a former general director of Energomash [...]
by admin on March 29, 2010
By Ivan Anderzhanov
Goldman Sachs has boosted its sales team with the recruitment of Brian Robinson, the former head of international sales at Renaissance Capital.
Robinson joined Rencap in October 2006 at peak of Russia’s capital markets boom from Citigroup where he had been managing director and head of EMEA and Latin American [...]
by admin on March 17, 2010
By Ivan Anderzhanov
Sadeq Sayeed, Nomura’s European head and the banker who negotiated the purchase of Lehman Brothers‘ London-based businesses for just $2 in 2008, is stepping down.
Nomura said Sayeed, 57, was retiring. He will remain an adviser to the bank and will run the process of finding his successor as chief executive of [...]
by admin on March 16, 2010
By Marcus Williams
Roubini Global Economics, the research and advisory firm founded by the notorious bear Nouriel Roubini, has hired four strategists to boost its expanding team.
The firm has hired Gina Sanchez has joined the firm as a director for equity and asset allocation strategy, Natalia Gurushina as director for [...]
by admin on March 15, 2010
By Alexander Kudrin, Head of Fixed Income Research at Troika Dialog
Recent developments on the political front in Ukraine have left us in a positive mood. The establishment of a parliamentary coalition and the formation of a new government suggest that the government’s executive and legislative branches have reached some consensus.
This gives [...]
by admin on March 8, 2010
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 [...]
by admin on February 18, 2010
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 [...]
by admin on February 2, 2010
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 [...]
by admin on February 1, 2010
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 [...]
by admin on January 12, 2010
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 [...]
by admin on December 16, 2009
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 [...]
by admin on December 10, 2009
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 [...]