By Andrei Skvarsky. Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, has replaced two of its directors, both new appointees being CEOs of regional divisions of Caisse d’Epargne, a bank holding a large stake in Natixis. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
Sberbank parting company with head of retail
Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank deputy CEO Alexander Torbakhov, who oversees the retail business of Russia’s largest banking group, is stepping down and will be replaced by Svetlana Kirsanova, who today heads the lender’s acquiring and bank cards division, the bank has announced. Continue Reading
Fintech provider PrimeXM appoints new head of global sales
By Andrei Skvarsky. PrimeXM, a financial technology provider with world-scale business, has announced it has appointed Andreas Charalambous as head of global sales. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Deutsche Bank analyst as global head of investment research
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired former high-ranking Deutsche Bank analyst Yaroslav Lisovolik as global head of investment research. Continue Reading
Two lawyers with financial sector experience join intl law firm Winston & Strawn
By Andrei Skvarsky. U.S.-based international law firm Winston & Strawn has announced two high-profile hires, recruiting two lawyers specialising in financial services as well as other industries. Continue Reading
Sberbank gives senior job in corporate and investment unit to regional manager
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has promoted one of its top regional managers to co-manager of its corporate and investment business. Continue Reading
Richard Bartlett goes as head of sales at PrimeXM financial technology provider
By Andrei Skvarsky. PrimeXM, a financial technology provider for businesses across the world, has parted company with head of sales Richard Bartlett. Continue Reading
Renaissance Capital hires debt capital banker from Standard Chartered
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank specialising in emerging and frontier markets, has hired Samuel Sule from Standard Chartered Bank for a London-based job as a director in the debt capital markets (DCM) division. Continue Reading
Sberbank puts David Rafalovsky in charge of tech unit with Nikita Volkov as no. 2
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s largest lender Sberbank has appointed two of its top executives, David Rafalovsky and Nikita Volkov, as, respectively, head and deputy head of its technology unit. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires head of lifestyle management firm for role at HNWI unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has announced it has hired Julia Melts, chief executive of a lifestyle management company, as head of client coverage at Sberbank Private Banking, the unit of Russia’s biggest lender that provides services for high-net-worth individuals. Continue Reading
Sberbank vice-CEO Poletaev stepping down but staying as adviser
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank has announced an upcoming top-tier reshuffle to include the resignation of Maxim Poletaev, one of chief executive officer Herman Gref’s two senior deputies, who will, however, stay at the bank as a senior adviser. Continue Reading
Renaissance Capital hires utilities analyst for Russia, Europe, Africa
By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Sergey Beiden, a former senior strategist at Russian electricity generator Quadra, as utilities analyst for Russia, Africa and European emerging markets. Continue Reading
RenCap hires ex-Deutsche researcher Ivan Kachkovski as equity analyst
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank with global operations, has hired Ivan Kachkovski, formerly a senior researcher at Deutsche Bank, as an equity analyst for Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and emerging Europe. Continue Reading
Renaissance Capital reports robust performance for 2017
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based privately owned investment bank focusing on emerging and frontier markets all over the world, has reported robust performance for 2017, including a year-on-year net profit increase of 43 per cent. Continue Reading
Russia’s RenCap hires Ahmed Hafez as head of MENA research
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Ahmed Hafez as head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) research. Continue Reading
All of Lowell’s UK business to be captained by ex-Bank of America risk manager
By Andrei Skvarsky. Debt recovery company Lowell has hired John Peers, an ex-consumer risk manager at Bank of America, as chief executive of its British operation. Continue Reading
Helm at Sberbank’s Ukraine subsidiary passes over to Irina Knyazeva
By Andrei Skvarsky. The helm at the Ukrainian subsidiary of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has been handed to Irina Knyazeva, who has been appointed the subsidiary’s acting chief executive and until now has been deputy chief executive of the Ukrainian bank. Continue Reading
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise to be run by former senior Swiss diplomat
The position of chairman of Switzerland’s Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) is going over to Jacques de Watteville, formerly the country’s chief negotiator with the European Union and an ex-head of the Swiss finance ministry’s international relations department. Continue Reading
Lombard Odier hires Swiss central bank deputy governor Olivier Steimer as a director
Swiss private bank Lombard Odier has hired Olivier Steimer, today’s second-in-command of Switzerland’s central bank and formerly a senior manager at Credit Suisse, as an independent member of its board of directors. Continue Reading
Cryptocurrency-focused firm Brickblock plans world’s first sale of tokenised real estate
By Andrei Skvarsky. Brickblock, a company building a blockchain-based trading platform for connecting cryptocurrencies with real-world assets, is due to put the world’s first tokenised real estate item – an apartment block in Berlin – on sale this month. Continue Reading
Ex-senior Credit Suisse banker hired by fast-growing Russian hypermarket chain Lenta
By Andrei Skvarsky. A former Credit Suisse chief executive for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Steven Hellman, has been hired as a non-executive director by Lenta, Russia’s largest hypermarket chain. Continue Reading
ITI Capital hires ex-top manager at Liquidnet John Barker as non-executive chairman
By Andrei Skvarsky. ITI Capital, a London-based brokerage that used to be a British subsidiary of Russian bank Uralsib, has announced it has hired John Barker, a former head of international at New York-headquartered global institutional equities marketplace Liquidnet, as non-executive chairman. Continue Reading
Ex-Barclay IT manager takes the helm of deVere Vault fintech bank
By Andrei Skvarsky. deVere Group, a global financial consultancy, has hired Donatas Kontrimas from Barclays as chief executive of the deVere Vault bank, a global e-money app it launched on April 10. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Alfa-Bank investment chief to run international business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired a former chief of the investment arm of Russia’s Alfa-Bank, Igor Kolomeysky, to head Sberbank International, the unit that oversees the largest Russian lender’s business in 16 countries, employs more than 27,000 people and has about 15m clients. Continue Reading
Ex-SocGen banker hired to oversee Sberbank CIB sales to financial institutions
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired ex-Societe Generale banker Alexei Poliakov to head the unit at its corporate and investment arm, Sberbank CIB, for sales of fixed-income instruments and derivatives to financial institutions in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Continue Reading
Yandex.Money, payment service co-owned by Sberbank, changes chief exec
By Andrei Skvarsky. Yandex.Money, a key Russian online payment service co-owned by Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has hired Ivan Glazachev, a former top manager at Russian Standard Bank, as its chief executive. Continue Reading
Russia’s Sberbank hires ex-ING banker to oversee digital overhaul of client service
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired former ING banker Bart Schlatmann to oversee a planned digital overhaul that would put the biggest Russian lender’s client service on an omni-channel basis. Continue Reading
Kroll makes top appointments for cyber security, investigations teams
By Andrei Skvarsky. Kroll, a global provider of risk solutions, has promoted five members of staff to senior positions in its North America and Asia Pacific teams. Continue Reading
Russia’s RenCap makes hire for Sub-Saharan Africa consumer research team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capital (RenCap) has made a hire for its research team for Sub-Saharan Africa, handing responsibility for industrials and consumer sector coverage to Adedayo Ayeni, previously an analyst at an African subsidiary of Portugal’s third-largest listed bank. Continue Reading