By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, an investment bank with operations in emerging and frontier markets across the globe, has made five hires for its distribution team to fill roles such as oversight of structured products and the high-net-worth individual (HNWI) clientele. RenCap quoted one of its senior managers as saying that, despite the Covid-19 pandemic,… Continue Reading
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Sberbank hires ex-CEO of key Russian insurer to run insurance subsidiary
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank said it has hired Mikhail Volkov from Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh as CEO of its subsidiary Sberbank Insurance to replace Dmitry Popov, who is going over to Ingosstrakh. Volkov had been CEO of Ingosstrakh, which is one of Russia’s largest insurers, since April 2014 and since November 2019 combined this role… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires Viktor Shkipin, ex-manager at Alfa-Bank, VTB to run marketing, communications
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has hired Viktor Shkipin, a former head of marketing at Russian lenders Alfa-Bank and VTB, as senior vice-president and head of marketing and communications. Shkipin’s duties will include oversight of Sberbank group companies specialising in advertising and media projects in addition to managing marketing and communications at the… Continue Reading
Russia’s Sberbank parting company with marketing chief Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan
By Andrei Skvarsky. Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan, senior vice-president of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank and head of its marketing and communications department, is leaving the bank nine months after joining it. “In these difficult times I’ve made up my mind to focus on developing my own business,” a Sberbank statement quoted Zhigalova-Ozkan as saying. Zhigalova-Ozkan has overseen… Continue Reading
Dubai’s Mashreq hires ex-HSBC banker Joel Van Dusen as head of corporate & investment banking
By Andrei Skvarsky. Mashreq has hired former HSBC and Bank of America banker Joel Van Dusen as head of corporate and investment banking, according to a statement from the Dubai-based lender. At HSBC, where he worked from 2013 to 2016, Van Dusen was the first global head of large corporates, which was a London-based position.… Continue Reading
African Development Bank parting company with senior vice-president Charles Boamah
By Andrei Skvarsky. Charles Boamah is stepping down as senior vice-president of the African Development Bank, according to a statement from the lender. Boamah has spent 23 years at the development bank, having held the positions of director of accounting, controller and chief financial officer (combining the latter post with that of vice-president), before being… Continue Reading
Sberbank reports three senior appointments, one stepdown
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has made two hires to run its business in the health sector, appointed one of its staff members as head of government relations (GR), and is parting company with the head of an investment subsidiary. Both newcomers come from the Russian government. Olga Golodets, a former deputy prime… Continue Reading
Guernsey Finance looking for CEO as Dominic Wheatley planning to quit
Guernsey Finance, a company acting as a promotional agency for Guernsey’s finance industry, is looking for candidates for the position of chief executive as incumbent Dominic Wheatley is quitting at the end of June 2020. The application deadline is 5pm on January 24. Applicants should submit a CV and covering letter to Guernsey Finance chairman… Continue Reading
Francois Du Toit rejoins RenCap as insurance, real estate analyst in Africa team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has re-hired its ex-analyst Francois Du Toit, appointing him as an insurance and real estate analyst in its Africa team. Du Toit will be based in Cape Town and cover insurance stocks across RenCap’s African markets and real estate stocks in South Africa, the bank, which focuses… Continue Reading
Sberbank replaces CEO of subsidiary running cloud platform for ecosystem
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has appointed one of its senior managers, Yevgeny Kolbin, as CEO of SberCloud, a subsidiary running a cloud platform for the ecosystem of Russia’s biggest lender. In his new role, Kolbin, who until now has headed Sberbank’s Digital Corporate Bank division, replaces Mikhail Lobotsky, who will stay on in SberCloud as… Continue Reading
Russia’s Sberbank carries through senior staff moves
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has parted company with Andrei Sharov, its head of government relations, moved head of marketing Vladislav (Vlad) Kreinin to the position of chief growth officer in the unit overseeing the bank’s ecosystem, and promoted senior executive Natalya Dudina to the role of head of human resources. Sberbank has credited Sharov with… Continue Reading
RenCap hires Grigory Sedov as global head of private clients
By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Grigory Sedov as global head of private clients. As his previous role, Sedov was partner and deputy CEO of Russian investment firm Aton, which focuses on services for wealthy individuals. Sedov will be in charge of expanding RenCap’s range of services for private clients across the… Continue Reading
CORRECTION- Renaissance Capital makes senior hire for Nigeria investment banking team
(Correcting the job description of the newcomer, who is not head of the investment banking service). By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow-based investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Oladipupo Adekanmbi, previously an adviser at Nigeria’s FBNQuest Merchant Bank, as vice-president, investment banking, Nigeria. A statement from RenCap, a bank focusing on emerging and frontier markets across the… Continue Reading
Sberbank’s Kazakhstan subsidiary to replace CEO
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank JSC, the Kazakh subsidiary of Russia’s largest lender Sberbank, is due to replace its CEO early next month as incumbent Alexander Kamalov is moving to another role in the Sberbank group and his first deputy, Yeldar Tenizbayev, will take up the reins. Tenizbayev is scheduled to take his new position on… Continue Reading
Sberbank’s intl business to be overseen by Denizbank ex-senior exec Timur Kozintsev
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank International will have a new chief executive as from the start of 2020 with Timur Kozintsev, a former senior figure at Turkey’s Denizbank, replacing Igor Kolomeysky at the helm of the international business division of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Kozintsev was hired by Sberbank in 2013 and, as its director for… Continue Reading
Alexander Morozov resigning as Sberbank CFO
By Andrei Skvarsky. Alexander Morozov is stepping down as the chief financial officer of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Morozov will pass over his formal position as CFO to Alexandra Buriko, currently an adviser to Sberbank CEO Herman Gref, as from January 1. However, he will exercise the top oversight of the lender’s financial affairs until… Continue Reading
Francesco Pascalizi joins Fabrizio Carretti as Permira co-head for Italy
By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment company Permira has announced it has elevated a member of its Italian team, Francesco Pascalizi, to the position of co-head for Italy to join Fabrizio Carretti in co-running the London-headquartered global firm’s Italian operation. Pascalizi, who will be based in Milan, joined Permira in 2007 and is a member of its… Continue Reading
Sberbank’s Lev Khasis confirmed as Rambler chair after stake purchase
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank first deputy CEO Lev Khasis has been confirmed as chairman of the board of directors of Rambler Group after the latter became Russia’s largest media and entertainment company by selling nearly half its capital to the country’s biggest lender. Khasis, who keeps his Sberbank position, will have a one-year stint as… Continue Reading
Russia’s Sberbank hires Anna Kozlovskaya from Mastercard as PR chief
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Anna Kozlovskaya from Mastercard as head of public relations. Kozlovskaya’s appointment takes effect on October 3, the bank said in a statement. At Mastercard, Kozlovskaya was head of communications for what the New York-based financial services corporation describes as “high growth European markets”, putting, among others,… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires Oksana Smirnova-Krell from MTS Bank as banking IT chief
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Sberbank has hired Oksana Smirnova-Krell from MTS Bank, a lender co-controlled by the country’s number-one mobile phone operator MTS, to oversee information technology aspects of banking at Russia’s biggest lender. Smirnova-Krell was deputy CEO and chief technology officer at MTS Bank, which is controlled by the MTS mobile operator and Russian… Continue Reading
RenCap hires retail trade analyst, investment banking chief for S. Africa unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian-owned investment bank Renaissance Capital has made two senior appointments for its South African operation, hiring Funeka Beja-Maseko from Japan’s largest bank MUFG as retail trade analyst and Andrew Nkumbula from South African bank Absa as head of investment banking. Beja-Maseko will monitor the activities of South African retail companies and report… Continue Reading
Russia’s Sberbank puts Alexander Belokopytov in charge of CIB ecosystem’s non-banking services
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has promoted Alexander Belokopytov, head of the largest Russian lender’s small and micro enterprises department, by putting him in charge of non-banking services in the ecosystem of the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division. Belokopytov will hold the rank of Sberbank vice-president in his new role, according to a statement from… Continue Reading
RenCap hires ex-central banker Sofya Donets to oversee Russia & CIS research
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, one of Russia’s principal investment banks, has hired Sofya Donets, a former senior Russian central bank officer, as chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In her role at RenCap, a bank focusing on emerging and frontier markets worldwide, Donets replaces Oleg Kouzmin, who “moved to a… Continue Reading
Sberbank carries through top management moves
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has announced senior staff moves this month. Andrey Vanin, vice-president for the corporate client ecosystem, has been put at the head of SberX, a unit overseeing non-banking services in Sberbank Group, which brings together about 20 companies. In this capacity, he replaced Mark Zavadsky, who stayed on at… Continue Reading
Samtrade FX broker hires investor and analyst Derick Tan as senior adviser
By Andrei Skvarsky. Trader, investor and market analyst Derick Tan, founder of two Singaporean companies, has been hired as a senior adviser by Samtrade FX, a foreign exchange broker mainly active in Asia. Samtrade FX appointed Tan as a member of the board of advisers and “brand ambassador”, according to a statement from the Vanuatu-based… Continue Reading
RenCap rehires Alexander Vengranovich to oversee telecoms research
By Andrei Skvarsky. Alexander Vengranovich, who was a real estate analyst at Renaissance Capital in 2007-2008, has returned to the Moscow-based investment bank, this time as global head of telecoms research. Continue Reading
Russia’s RenCap makes key hire for MENA team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Omar Gaafar, a former senior manager at Egyptian investment company Beltone Financial, as vice-president of the Moscow-based firm’s investment banking service for the Middle East and North Africa. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-MetLife exec to oversee pension subsidiary
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Alexander Zaretsky, a former 15-year-long CEO of the Russian operation of US insurer MetLife, as head of Sberbank Private Pension Fund, a subsidiary running private pension schemes for individuals and companies. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Health Ministry official to oversee healthcare interests
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has hired former senior Russian Health Ministry official Yury Krestinsky to oversee its interests in the country’s health sector. Continue Reading