By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s VTB Capital has hired Dmitry Lukashov, a former analyst at Swiss bank UBS, as its chief oil and gas analyst. Lukashov, who brings a team with him to VTB, worked as an analyst for Aton and Alfa-Bank before joining UBS. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
EXCLUSIVE: HSBC hires Zhukov from Nomura as head of research
By Andrei Skvarsky. HSBC has hired Vladimir Zhukov from Nomura as head of research in ramping up its investment banking arm in Moscow after deciding to sell its retail operations in Russia. Zhukov confirmed to EmergingMarkets.me that he had started work as head of Russian equity research and metals and mining analyst at the British bank,… Continue Reading
Renaissance hires Cherny from Interros, Goldman's Barinstein
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage Renaissance Capital has hired two senior bankers to cover operations in Russia, the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe. Anton Cherny has joined as the London-based head of business development. He worked for Renaissance as head of capital markets from 2005 to 2008, having previously held a senior corporate finance… Continue Reading
Third Rome's Kogan joins Moscow Partners broker
By Andrei Skvarsky. Former Third Rome senior partner Yevgeny Kogan has become managing director and a partner at Moscow Partners, an investment firm that plans a major advance into financial markets after years of relatively low activity. Kogan left Third Rome on June 30 over strategic differences with the top management of the Moscow-based wealth… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Otkritie hires ex-Central Bank economist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage Otkritie has hired Polina Badasen, a former economist at the Russian Central Bank, as an economist for Russia and the CIS. Badasen’s duties at the Central Bank included recommendations for exchange rate and interest rate policies and liquidity forecasts for the banking sector. In her Otkritie job, Badasen backs up… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Rencap hires Deutsche Bank's Abbott to co-run equity sales
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has hired Will Abbott as co-head of equity domestic sales in the latest in a string of big name hires. Abbott, who previously headed Deutsche Bank’s sales and trading business in Russia, shares the job of running the Moscow-based investment firm’s equity domestic sales with Ruslan Babaev, Rencap spokesman Quinn… Continue Reading
Nick Jordan makes a comeback as head of UBS
By Ivan Anderzhanov Nick Jordan, the former head of Lehman Brothers in Moscow, has made a surprising comeback as the head of Russia and CIS for Swiss bank UBS. Jordan, who was allegedly brought to Lehman from Deutsche Bank for $10m over years, had been in limbo for the past year after losing out in… Continue Reading
Rencap’s Aganbegyan quits Rencap to join Micex
By Ivan Anderzhanov Ruben Aganbegyan, the former president of Renaissance Capital, is leaving the investment bank to takeover as president at Micex, the largest Russian stock exchange. Aganbegyan, who was demoted in February this year following a shake-up by Rencap founder Stephen Jennings, will take up his new role on June 21. He replaces Konstantin… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Sberbank hires Romaev as head of new debt unit
By Andrei Skvarsky Russia’s largest lender Sberbank has hired Dmitry Romaev as head of its new debt capital markets unit for Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) from Otkritie. Romaev, who was previously chief financial officer at Otkritie, said the unit had already hired three other bankers to work on large… Continue Reading
Exclusive: Deutsche Bank back in the hiring game in Russia ?
By Andrei Skvarsky Deutsche Bank has recently hired Igor Sorokin from Troika Dialog, appointing him as vice president in charge of structuring. The German bank seems to be back in the market for new hires following yesterday’s announcement of two analyst hires, George Buzhenitsa and Natalia Smirnova, from UniCredit Securities. Other rivals have so far… Continue Reading
Exclusive: VTB hires Jaeckel as deputy head of quant research
By Andrei Skvarsky Russia’s VTB Capital bank has recently hired Peter Jaeckel as deputy head of quantitative research at its London office. Jaeckel combines the job with the position as managing director of OTC Analytics, a British-based financial derivatives analysis company he has founded after a four-year stint as a senior analyst with ABN AMRO.… Continue Reading
BofA Merrill Lynch boost EMEA research with three hires
By Marcus Williams BofA Merrill Lynch has beefed up its EMEA research platform with three hires as part of a new EMEA economics and fixed income strategy group. Arko Sen joins the group with seven years of experience in emerging EMEA fixed income strategy, most recently at Barclays Capital, along with Jean-Michel Saliba who has… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Tatiana Orlova quits as ING’s senior economist for Russia
By Andrei Skvarsky Tatiana Orlova has quit Dutch bank ING as its Moscow-based senior analyst for Russia and the CIS. A spokeswoman for ING Wholesale Banking Russia confirmed Orlova’s departure to EmergingMarkets.me but said the bank would not disclose whether she had left for a new job. Before joining ING in autumn 2007, Orlova spent… Continue Reading
Fleming hires Troika Dialog duo in expansion
By Andrei Skvarsky London-based asset management company Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) has hired two former managers for Troika Dialog and one from Trust Bank in an expansion of its Russian business. Alexander Yakubov, previously chief equity market analyst at Russian investment bank Trust, was appointed a managing director and strategist at the Moscow-based subsidiary,… Continue Reading
BoFA Merill Lynch hires Nomura's Meissner as EMEA head
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… Continue Reading
Fleming Family & Partners name new asset management head for Russia
By Ivan Anderzhanov The Russian investment unit of the UK’s Fleming Family & Partners has named Rustam Issev as its general director to replace Andrei Uspensky. Iseev, who was previously the firm’s managing director, takes over from Uspensky who quit to join Leader Asset Management, according to Prime-Tass, the news agency. Leader is the pension… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Two senior bankers leave JP Morgan to join state-backed advisory boutique
By Ivan Anderzhanov Two senior bankers quit Wall Street bank JP Morgan in Moscow last week and are believed to be joining an invesment boutique focused on advising the state in the acquisition of domestic and foreign energy assets. EmergingMarkets.me understands that Stanislav Song, one of the most reputable M&A bankers in Russia, and Hamid… Continue Reading
Troika hires fund management head from Renaissance
By Ivan Anderzhanov Troika Dialog has hired Anton Rakhmanov to run its asset management business less than three months after its founder Pavel Teplukhin quit the Moscow group. Rakhmanov, who will oversee the Troika Dialog Asset Management., joins in May. He has 15 years experience and has been hired from rival Renaissance Investment Management, where… Continue Reading
Ex-Renaissance and Alfa managers to set up $1bn fund
By Andrei Skvarsky Former managers at Renaissance Group and Alfa Group plan to set up a new $1bn private equity fund to invest in Russian companies. The new fund to be run by Elbrus Capital will incorporate funds acquired from Renaissance Partners, the Renaissance Group subsidiary, according to a report in RBC Daily. Elbrus plans… Continue Reading
VTB Capital names Alexey Zabotkin as investment strategy head
Russian investment bank VTB Capital has named Alexey Zabotkin as its new head of investment strategy. He joins the bank from VTB Asset Management, where he had been chief investment officer and deputy chief executive since September 2009. In 2008-09, he was chief investment officer with United Capital Partners, a Moscow-based investment boutique. For the… Continue Reading
Alfa Group to replenish banking staff after cuts last year
By Andrei Skvarsky Russia’s Alfa Group plans to start hiring new staff this year for its corporate loan division and various retail services after cutting it its banking division in 2008 and 2009. Alfa reduced its banking personnel by 15 percent in the wake of the financial crisis, with the most cuts falling on the… Continue Reading
Moscow recruiter Antal hires former Rencap recruitment head
By Andrei Skvarsky Russian recruitment firm Antal has hired Karl Franzmann, a former director of recruitment at Renaissance Capital, the Moscow-based emerging markets bank. Franzmann, whose tenure at Renaissance Capital coincided with the bank’s initial rapid expansion into sub-Saharan Africa and other developing markets, has over ten years of experience in executive recruitment and executive… Continue Reading
Otkritie boosts Investment Banking team
By Marcus Williams Fast-growing Russian brokerage Otkritie has lured Temo Jorbenadze from VTB Capital as head of Investment Banking’s Financing Services Group. Otkritie, which has doubled in size in the last year, also hired Dmitry Perman as a director from the Moscow-based boutique advisory firm Advance Capital. Jorbenadze was a director for investment banking at… Continue Reading
Former Merrill Lynch investment head Arofikin returns as hiring picks up
By Ivan Anderzhanov Andrei Arofikin, the former managing director of Merrill Lynch’s investment banking team in Moscow, has returned to the US investment bank as hiring shows signs of picking up. Arofikin quit the bank in March 2008 to join the state savings bank Sberbank where he replaced Andrey Trusov who chaired the group’s international… Continue Reading
£21bn USS pension fund hires emerging markets team
By Marcus Williams in London The £21bn USS pension scheme in the UK has hired an emerging markets team charged with leading a push into the asset class. The fund, which is the second largest private sector pension fund in the UK, has hired Carmel Peters, Danila Gallarato and Chris Shale to boost its emerging… Continue Reading
Rencap poaches Szalai as head of FIG from Troika Dialog
By Marcus Williams in London Renaissance Capital has poached Zoltai Szalai as managing director and head of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) from Russian rival Troika Dialog. Szalai will lead equity and debt capital markets as well as mergers and acquisitions advisory for companies in the financial sector across Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and… Continue Reading
Teplukhin quits Troika Dialog after 19 years for "new horizons"
By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Pavel Teplukhin, a co-founder of Troika Dialog and a leading light in the development of Russia’s capital markets, has quit the Russian brokerage after 19 years without having a new job to go to. Moscow’s rumour mill first started churning up that Teplukhin would leave the Moscow group over a… Continue Reading
Former Uralsib boss Donskikh resurfaces at Sberbank
By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Andrey Donskikh, the former chairman of Uralsib Financial Corporation, has resurfaced at the state savings bank Sberbank in a senior role. Donskih, who stepped down from his role at Uralsib in November after five years at the group, will come deputy president of the bank. A report in today’s Vedomosti… Continue Reading
Donsikh steps down from the top job at UralSib
By Ivan Anderzhanov in Moscow Andrey Donskikh, chairman of UralSib Financial Corporation, has stepped down from the bank’s top position. Donskih, who will retain ties in the group on its supervisory board and as chairman of the group’s holding structure, will be replaced by the current deputy chairman of the board Ildar Muslimov, who oversees… Continue Reading