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
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
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
Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) – November 2016 Newsletter
“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.“ – Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, American Economist AFC had another great month with all funds recording positive returns in November 2016 with the AFC Asia Frontier Fund and the AFC Vietnam Fund… Continue Reading
Svetlana Fedotova hired from Luxembourg bank to run Sberbank CIB’s vehicles unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Svetlana Fedotova from East-West United Bank (EWUB) in Luxembourg as head of the transport and vehicle manufacturing division of Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. Continue Reading
Sergey Babayan joins Sberbank CIB as head of corporate client relations
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Sergey Babayan, a former senior manager at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO and other banks, as head of client relations at Sberbank CIB, the Russian firm’s investment arm. Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB hires Olga Altunina from Rosenergoatom as HR chief
By Andrei Skvarsky. Olga Altunina has joined Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, as head of human resources. Continue Reading
Moscow Exchange makes two appointments to top executive body
By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow Exchange’s supervisory board has promoted two of the bourse’s senior officers – Anna Kuznetsova, head of equity and bond trade, and Igor Marich, head of foreign exchange (FX) and money trade, – to two-year positions on the exchange’s executive board, its top executive body. Continue Reading
Goldman Sachs, Sberbank bankers join Moscow Exchange’s strategy crew
By Andrei Skvarsky. Two senior bankers – one from Goldman Sachs and one from Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, – have been appointed to Moscow Exchange’s strategic planning body, the Exchange Council. Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB hires Shemetov from Moscow Exchange to oversee global markets
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Andrey Shemetov, previously deputy chief executive of Moscow Exchange, as head of global markets at the biggest Russian lender’s investment arm, Sberbank CIB. Continue Reading
Sberbank’s European subsidiary to be led by veteran Austrian banker
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Gerhard Randa, an ex-head of Bank Austria, as chief executive of Sberbank Europe AG, a Vienna-headquartered subsidiary of Russia’s biggest lender operating in Austria, Germany and eight Eastern European countries. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires banker from Summa Group to run HNWI unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has hired Evgenia Tyurikova from Russian private investment company Summa Group to run the unit providing services for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Continue Reading
Sberbank to replace head of international business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has announced it is going to part company with its head of international operations, Sergey Gorkov, and replace him with Svetlana Sagaidak, who would be discharged as head of corporate business to take up her new role. Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB hires banker from Nordea to head client management dept
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has announced it has hired Igor Bulantsev from the Russian unit of Nordea, the largest bank in the Nordic region by market value, as vice president and head of client management. Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB appoints chiefs for regional teams
By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment bank Sberbank CIB has appointed chief executives for investment and corporate business teams at three of the 14 regional divisions of its parent company Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Continue Reading
RenCap appoints new global head of equities
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has appointed Ruslan Babaev, its chief business officer, as global head of equities to replace Ben Samuels, who is parting company with the Russian investment bank. Continue Reading
CFO Fetisov gets another 3-year stint on Moscow Exchange exec board
Moscow Exchange has announced that its chief financial officer, Evgeny Fetisov, has been re-elected for a second three-year stint on its executive board. Continue Reading
Russia’s Aton hires former Merrill Lynch, Gazprombank, Alfa Bank analysts
By Andrei Skvarsky. Aton, Russia’s oldest independent investment bank, has made three top hires for its equity research team, recruiting men who previously worked as analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Gazprombank and Alfa Bank. Continue Reading
Kroll risk consultancy promotes execs based in UK, Asia, Russia to managing director
Kroll, a consultancy specialising in risk mitigation, compliance and security, has promoted five executives based in various parts of the globe to the position of managing director. Continue Reading
Promsvyazbank helm to go over from Konstandian to co-owner Dmitry Ananiev
By Andrei Skvarsky. Dmitry Ananiev, one of the principal owners of Promsvyazbank, is going to replace Artem Konstandian as chief executive of what is a major Russian private bank, and may take his new job in three weeks’ time. Continue Reading
RenCap hires senior sales trader from BNP Paribas for Johannesburg team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank focusing on emerging and frontier markets, has made an addition to its South African team by hiring Jon Oosthuyse from BNP Paribas as director/senior sales trader. Continue Reading
Russia’s RenCap hires James Friel from Rothschild to run global investment banking
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a key Russian privately-owned investment bank, has hired James Friel from global financial consultancy Rothschild as global head of investment banking with effect from September. Continue Reading
Sberbank reports management reshuffle for digital services
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has discharged Viktor Orlovsky of his duties as senior vice president overseeing the bank’s digital business and appointed him as head of SBT Venture Fund I, a vehicle for investment in startups developing technologies for the financial sector. Continue Reading
RenCap hires Lugo from Sberbank as US head of FICC sales
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has hired Victor Lugo from Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, to oversee fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) sales at RenCap Securities, the US subsidiary of the Moscow-based frontier and emerging markets-focused investment bank. Continue Reading
Mark Mobius quitting as head of Templeton EM Investment Trust
Famous investor Mark Mobius is stepping down as head manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust but will remain at the helm of the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Group, which manages the trust, according to media reports. Continue Reading
Russia’s RenCap makes top appointments in Nigeria office
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Temi Popoola from CSL Stockbrokers, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank (FCMB), as head of Nigerian equities. Continue Reading
RenCap appoints Elena Kolchina as fixed income strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capital has given the role of a fixed income strategist and credit analyst to Elena Kolchina, re-hiring her after an 18-month stint at Signet Capital Management, a London-headquartered fixed income company. Continue Reading