Sberbank has announced it has hired Vasiliy Sofiyskiy from Credit Suisse to head the ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) unit in the newly set-up private banking arm of Russia’s biggest lender. Sofiysky’s arrival at Sberbank Private Banking and other recent senior hires by Sberbank are part of a major buildout of business launched by the lender in 2011… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
RenCap appoints John Hyman, Igor Vayn as co-CEOs
Renaissance Capital has divided the job of chief executive officer between two bankers by promoting John Hyman, who joined the Russian investment bank last year, and hiring Igor Vayn from Otkritie. Hyman was also appointed as chairman of the Moscow-based company, according to a statement from the firm. Hyman was interim chief executive after Stephen… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires manager from UBS to help get private banking off the ground
Sberbank Private Banking, a newly set-up division of Russia’s Sberbank, has given a senior managerial role to Anna Tokaeva from Swiss bank UBS, where she has held top positions in wealth and asset management. Tokaeva spent 12 years with UBS, being posted in Chicago and Moscow, before coming over to help develop what is a new… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires head of equities portfolio management
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Sberbank Asset Management has hired Roman Filatov, a banker with nearly 20 years’ experience, as head of equities portfolio management. Filatov held senior roles at Russia’s Renaissance Investment Management in 2008-2009 and at Templeton Asset Management for 11 years before that. He arrives at Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, from IXIA Asset… Continue Reading
Revere launches consultancy for early-stage hedge funds
By Andrei Skvarsky. Revere Capital Advisors, a hedge fund management specialist, has launched a strategic marketing and business development consultancy for early-stage hedge funds. The consultancy, REM Marketing Solutions, is based in London and offers marketing, sales, product management and business management services. Its managers for Europe are Camilla Balmer and Yvonne Barker-Layton, according to… Continue Reading
Ukraine agribusiness co-owned by RenCap hires CFO
By Andrei Skvarsky. Ukrainian Agrarian Investments (UAI), a major Ukrainian farming business co-founded and co-owned by Russia’s Renaissance Capital, has hired Alexandre Joseph from French agricultural company AgroGeneration as chief financial officer. A statement from RenCap, which is currently selling out to billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group. credits Joseph, who will be based in Kyiv, with… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: BrokerCreditService hires quant strategist from Gulf Intl Bank
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService (BCS), which has been recruiting intensively over the past few months, has hired Shan Jiang from Gulf International Bank as a quant strategist. Jiang took up his duties at BCS’s London office on Tuesday, Luis Saenz, the London-based head of equity and derivatives sales and trading at the brokerage,… Continue Reading
Nomos banker joins UralSib as top asset manager
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian bank Nomos has parted company with its head of asset management, Yury Belonoschenko, who has been hired by Moscow’s UralSib Financial Corporation for a similar role. Belonoschenko’s UralSib appointment as head of asset management takes effect on November 23, according to a statement from the banking group. His capital markets career,… Continue Reading
RenCap hires sales traders for EMEA platform
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has hired two sales traders for its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) platform. Shu-Ming Peng, who arrives from Morgan Stanley, and Aimee Crane, who previously worked at ING and JPMorgan Chase, will be based at the London office of the Moscow investment bank, according to a statement from RenCap.… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: BrokerCreditService makes one more research hire
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService has made yet another addition to its research team by hiring Anna Kurbatova from Gazprombank as senior telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) analyst. Kurbatova will be based in Moscow and took up her BrokerCreditService job on Monday, Luis Saenz, the London-based head of equity and derivatives sales and trading… Continue Reading
VTB Capital hires ex-Royal Bank of Scotland researcher as chief economist for MEA
By Andrei Skvarsky. VTB Capital has hired Raza Agha from Royal Bank of Scotland as chief economist for the Middle East and Africa. Agha will be based in London, according to a statement from the Moscow-headquartered brokerage arm of Russia’s VTB Group. He had worked at the World Bank, the Netherlands’ ABN AMRO, the Pakistani… Continue Reading
Aton appoints private banking head for northwestern Russia
By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow brokerage Aton has appointed Oleg Puntusov, a former Troika Dialog banker, as head of its private banking business in northwestern Russia. Puntusov, who began his stock market career in 1998, worked at Troika offices in the Russian cities of Samara and Togliatti and later headed Troika’s branches in Nizhny Novgorod and… Continue Reading
RenCap carries out reshuffle to beef up equity products group
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has carried through an internal reshuffle to improve cross-regional coordination in its equity products group by making senior appointments in New York, London, Russia and South Africa. Rupert Hope and Florian Hellmich were promoted to global co-heads of distribution in New York and London respectively. They will oversee operations in… Continue Reading
UBS puts ex-Credit Suisse banker in charge of Russia business
By Andrei Skvarsky. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has hired Anush Simonian from rival Swiss lender Credit Suisse as its investment banking chief in Russia. Simonian replaces Antanas Petrosius, who remains deputy head for Russia and who also comes from Credit Suisse, having joined UBS in June last year. He will focus on key clients, according… Continue Reading
Moscow’s Aton hires ex-govt official to run Yekaterinburg unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow-based brokerage Aton has hired Viktor Dolzhenko, until then a senior regional government officer for investment, as head of its branch in Yekaterinburg. Before his two-year tenure as deputy minister for investment and development of the Sverdlovsk region, Dolzhenko headed Troika Dialog’s office in Yekaterinburg, the administrative centre of the region, which… Continue Reading
RenCap hires ex-Morgan Stanley banker to run ECM & DCM business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Isabella da Costa Mendes from Morgan Stanley as head of equity capital markets and debt capital markets execution. Da Costa Mendes is based in London, RenCap said. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Da Costa Mendes worked for 10 years at JP Morgan, where she held positions… Continue Reading
BrokerCreditService makes one more hire from Otkritie
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s BrokerCreditService (BCS) has hired Olga Naydenova from Otkritie as senior financial research analyst in Moscow, recruiting one more in a series of bankers and analysts who have come over from the rival Russian broker over the past several months. Naydenova took up her BCS job today, Luis Saenz, the London-based head… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Merrill banker in boosting investment team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank CIB, a former Troika Dialog division, has hired Vlada Gosal from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) as managing director for debt capital markets in building out an investment banking platform for parent firm Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Gosal took up her new role on Monday, according to a statement from Troika,… Continue Reading
BrokerCreditService hires ex-UBS analyst as chief strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. BrokerCreditService (BCS), a Russian stock trader, has hired Kirill Chuyko from Swiss Bank UBS as chief strategist, senior metals and mining analyst and co-head of equity research. Chuyko, who was a senior Moscow-based metals and mining analyst for UBS for the past two years, took up his BCS job on Thursday, according to… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog hires ex-RenCap banker to co-run equity sales trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Troika Dialog has hired Robert Hagon from Renaissance Capital as co-head of equity sales trading, an appointment that is part of the Moscow-based brokerage’s current integration with Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Hagon has already taken up his duties in the London office of Troika, whose merger with Sberbank aims to give the… Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank replaces head of Russian unit
Deutsche Bank has appointed Pavel Teplukhin, a co-founder of Russian brokerage Troika Dialog, as chief executive of the Russian unit of Germany’s largest lender. Teplukhin takes up his new role on October 1, according to Reuters. He replaces Igor Lojevsky, whose contract has expired. Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s BCS beefs up research team with new hire
By Andrei Skvarsky. BrokerCreditService (BCS), a Russian firm pressing for leading positions in Russia’s financial markets, has made one more in a recent series of major hires, recruiting Vladimir (Vlad) Kuznetsov from UniCredit as a senior consumer analyst, Luis Saenz, head of equity sales and trading at BCS, told EmergingMarkets.me. Kuznetsov joined UniCredit’s Russian operation… Continue Reading
VTB hires ‘global icon’ Jim Rogers as agricultural investment adviser
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s VTB Capital has hired Jim Rogers, an American investor and economist who in 1998 created the Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI), as an adviser to its agricultural division. Rogers, the 69-year-old author of several books who is based in Singapore and is chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, joined forces with… Continue Reading
RenCap makes two promotions in Africa equity products team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has announced two promotions in its Africa-focused equity products group, with Ali Khalpey being appointed as head of South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa equities and Stanley Kariuki as head of equities for Kenya. Khalpey, who joined Renaissance in January 2010 and is based in Johannesburg, was head of equities for… Continue Reading
Russian banks short of business developers, CIB senior managers
By Andrei Skvarsky. Professionals who can fill positions of business development director and corporate and investment banking senior manager are some of those that Russian banks have the highest demand for, according to international recruitment company Antal. There are shortages of managers in various sectors of Russia’s economy, according to a statement from the headhunter.… Continue Reading
Gazprombank hires Troika Dialog’s DePoy as equity strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Gazprombank, the banking arm of gas giant Gazprom and Russia’s third-biggest lender by assets, has hired Erik DePoy from Troika Dialog as equity strategist. DePoy, who has more than 14 years of experience in the Russian market, spent nearly nine years at Alfa-Bank, first as a research editor and then as equity… Continue Reading
Otkritie hires Micex-RTS chief Aganbegyan as CEO
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Otkritie Financial Corp has hired Ruben Aganbegyan, who is stepping down as president of Moscow’s Micex-RTS stock exchange, as its chief executive. An Otkritie spokeswoman confirmed the appointment to EmergingMarkets.me. Aganbegyan replaces Vadim Belyaev, who will become president of Nomos-Bank, a Moscow institution being taken over by Otkritie in a deal… Continue Reading
BCS Bank appoints Emil Yusupov as CEO
By Andrei Skvarsky. BCS (BrokerCreditService), the Moscow-based investment banking group, has promoted head of retail Emil Yusupov to the role of chief executive of BCS Bank, its lender unit. Yusupov held senior jobs at Russia’s Absolut Bank, state-owned insurer Rosgosstrakh and UralSib group before joining BCS in March 2011. Continue Reading
Micex-RTS president Aganbegyan quitting
By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow’s Micex-RTS stock exchange is parting company with its president, Ruben Aganbegyan, who carried through a merger project that brought today’s main Russian bourse into being last year. A Micex-RTS statement said Aganbegyan, who pulled off the merger of Moscow’s Micex and RTS exchanges, is resigning with effect from September 25 and… Continue Reading