The former head of EMEA hedge fund trading at Citigroup, who left the bank to head up Evercore ISI’s European trading business in the summer of last year, has re-emerged at Marshall Wace. Charlie Mansour joined Marshall Wace earlier this month according to filings with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after just five months at… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
Morgan Stanley names new CFO
By Andrei Skvarsky. Morgan Stanley has named Jonathan Pruzan, co-head of the bank’s global financial institutions group in investment banking, as chief financial officer to replace Ruth Porat, who has been hired as finance chief by Google, according to various media reports. Continue Reading
Armajaro Commodities PM Tilney Stepping Down
Armajaro Asset Management’s John Tilney is stepping down from the lead manager role of the company’s flagship Armajaro Commodities Fund. Tilney will become an advisor to the fund, according to media reports. His role will be assumed by Armajaro partner and fund co-manager Oliver Denny. Armajaro’s Commodity Fund is down 5.49% year to date, according… Continue Reading
Rothschild Asset Management Names Michael Woods as CEO
Rothschild Asset Management, the US asset management business of the Rothschild Group, has appointed Michael Woods as its new CEO. Woods joins the firm frrom Deutsche Bank, where he was Head of the Americas, Global Client Group for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and CEO of DWS Investments. In these roles, he was responsible for… Continue Reading
TPG Capital Names Zubin Irani as Managing Director
TPG Capital has appointed Zubin Irani to managing direct in its operations group in Asia-Pacific. He will relocate to the company’s Singapore office from New Delhi, India. In his new role, Irani will aim to build out the firm’s operations and boost talent management and performance across the firm’s various portfolios, the company said in… Continue Reading
Rokos Hires Goldman's Riley For New Hedge Fund
Former Goldman Sachs co-head of Asia Pacific macro trading, Stuart Riley, has joined Brevan Howard ex-trader Chris Rokos in his new venture, according to media reports. Rokos, who reportedly made $4 billion for Brevan Howard between 2004 and 2012, began setting up his own fund after a legal dispute with Brevan came to an end… Continue Reading
Emerging Capital Partners Appoints Seyi Owodunni to Managing Director
Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a pan-African private equity firm with seven offices across Africa, appointed Seyi Owodunni as Managing Director of the firm’s Lagos, Nigeria office. According to reports, his new role will be to source and secure investment opportunities and help lead initiations to drive strategic and operational improvements. “As West Africa continues to… Continue Reading
RenCap hires ex-HSBC researcher as frontier markets analyst
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Seki Mutukwa, a former senior researcher at HSBC, as a frontier markets analyst. Continue Reading
Russia's RenCap promotes Ilgin Erdogan to chief exec of Turkey office
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has promoted its head of Turkey research, Ilgin Erdogan, to chief executive of the Russian investment bank’s Turkish office. Continue Reading
Sberbank appoints senior exec as head of unit for clients in engineering sector
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has appointed one of its senior managers, Vyacheslav Tsybulnikov, as head of its division for clients in the engineering industry. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires CFO, HR chief for investment arm
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has made two senior appointments for its investment arm Sberbank CIB, hiring Paul Goldfinch from Swiss bank UBS as chief financial officer and Annie Jordan from London-based headhunter Lansdowne International as head of human resources. Continue Reading
RENAISSANCE CAPITAL APPOINTS NEW CO-HEAD OF INVESTMENT BANKING, RUSSIA
Renaissance Capital has appointed Maxim Arefyev as Managing Director, Co-Head of Investment Banking, Russia. Arefyev will lead the origination and execution of M&A, equity and debt capital markets transactions in the Russia & CIS space, across consumer, retail, agriculture and other sectors, alongside Anton Cherny, Co-Head of Investment Banking, Russia. Continue Reading
RenCap gives ex-Deutsche Bank analyst senior job in MENA team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capitalhas appointed former Deutsche Bank researcher Ryan Apache as senior banking analyst in its equity research team forthe Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Continue Reading
Sberbank puts Peter Urbanczyk in charge of US investment business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has appointed Peter Urbanczyk as chief executive of the US unit of Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. Continue Reading
Russian deputy economics minister fired for slamming pension money moratorium
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Sergei Belyakov was fired on August 6 after publicly condemning the government’s one-year extension of a moratorium on the investment of assets from non-state pension funds. Continue Reading
VTB Capital appoints new interim CEO
Nick Hutt has been appointed interim CEO of VTB Capital plc. He is a key member of the VTB Capital team and has been working in the London office since 2008 as CFO of the company’s international business. Atanas Bostandjiev will be leaving his current position to pursue other business opportunities. Continue Reading
Ex-finance minister Kudrin becomes head of Moscow Exchange supervisory board
By Andrei Skvarsky. Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has been appointed as chairman of the new supervisory board of Moscow Exchange that was elected at the bourse’s annual general shareholders’ meeting on June 26. Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s Alfa Bank parts company with COO Denis Soloviev
By Andrei Skvarsky. Denis Soloviev has resigned as chief operating officer of the corporate and investment division of Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest privately owned lenders. Continue Reading
RenCap hiring for new Dubai office
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has made three hires for a new office that the Russian investment bank is due to open in Dubai later this summer, and plans more recruitments for it. Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ING researcher as FX and rates chief strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Tom Levinson from ING as chief strategist for foreign exchange and rates at Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s number-one lender. Continue Reading
Asia Frontier Capital hires analyst for Southeast Asia, Mongolia
By Andrei Skvarsky. Asia Frontier Capital (AFC), a Hong Kong-based fund management company that specialises in investing in Asian frontier markets, has hired Scott Osheroff from Pathfinder Capital Management as a research analyst for Southeast Asia and Mongolia. {{{?}}} Osheroff, who joined AFC on May 1, will be based in Phnom Penh for nine months… Continue Reading
EBRD appoints Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed, Francis Malige to the new position of Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. {{{?}}} Mr Malige assumed his role 1 May. He is responsible for leading the Bank’s operations in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Initially based in London, he will be relocating to Kiev later in the… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires bankers from Deutsche, J.P. Morgan for M&A unit
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Igor Ushakov from Deutsche Bank and Vadim Marchuk from J.P. Morgan as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) directors at Sberbank CIB, the investment arm of Russia’s biggest lender. {{{?}}} Ushakov worked in the European industrials and M&A groups at Merrill Lynch prior to his six-year London-based job as a director… Continue Reading
RenCap makes top appointments for Turkey team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has hired Mike Harris from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as chief strategist for the Russian investment bank’s business in Turkey and made four other senior appointments for its Turkish team. {{{?}}} Harris will be based between London and Istanbul and report to David Nangle, Head of equity research at… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s BCS hires ex-RBS banker to run global collateral trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment firm BCS Financial Group has hired Christian von Gradowski, a former repo trader at Royal Bank of Scotland and Dresdner Kleinwort, as director of collateral trading at its global markets arm. Von Gradowski will be based at BCS’s London office and “focus on the repo and stock loan presence to… Continue Reading
Veteran banker Sucher to co-oversee Credit Bank of Moscow business
By Andrei Skvarsky. Credit Bank of Moscow (CBM), a high-profile privately owned lender, has given a seat on its newly elected supervisory board to Bernie Sucher, an American who has been a key figure in building Russia’s investment banking. {{{?}}} The other two newcomers on the board are Thomas Grasse, a nominee of the European… Continue Reading
RenCap makes two senior hires for global fixed income team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capital has re-hired one of its former senior managers, Rupert Preece, putting him in charge of Sub-Saharan fixed income trading, and hired Marina Ryabokon from Australian mortgage broker Liquidity Finance as director in its international fixed income sales service. {{{?}}} Both Preece and Ryabokon will be based in London, RenCap… Continue Reading
RenCap names chiefs for South Africa
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, one of Russia’s top-tier investment banks, has announced a minor reshuffle in its African business, promoting Robert Lamprecht, who joined the firm last month, to chief executive for South Africa and appointing Clifford Sacks as chairman of the South African unit. {{{?}}} Lamprecht was hired by RenCap in January as… Continue Reading
RenCap hires banker from Goldman Sachs to run London trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital, a Russian emerging- and frontier-markets investment bank, has hired David George from Goldman Sachs as head of trading in London. {{{?}}} George will be based in London in his new job, which he takes in March, and report to RenCap’s global head of equities, Ben Samuels. His duties will include… Continue Reading