Standard Chartered has named Zhang Su as equity research analyst, emerging companies. He is based in Hong Kong and reports jointly to Jeremy Sutch, head of emerging companies research, and Erwin Sanft, head of Hong Kong/China equity research. In this role, he will be responsible for covering emerging companies in China and Hong Kong. His… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hires & Fires
PineBridge Investments appoints Chief Investment Officer
PineBridge Investments announced an appointment of new chief investment officer. Wael Aburida will lead the company’s MENA Private Equity and Real Estate Team covering the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, with responsibility for deal origination, negotiations, execution, portfolio management, and exits. Aburida joins from UAE-based Waha Capital where he was director of Mergers & Acquisitions, and was… Continue Reading
Renaissance Capital strengthens South Africa research team with new hires.
Renaissance Capital has boosted its South Africa equity research team with the appointment of Zaheer Joosub as Vice President, covering the South African retail sector; and Ahmed Motara as Vice-President, covering the property sector. Joosub joins Renaissance from Citigroup, where he has worked as an equity analyst for the past nine years. He was ranked in the top-five… Continue Reading
VTB Capital announces new appointments in Asia
VTB Capital announced new senior appointments to its Hong Kong office, as part of its expansion strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. Xin Lin has been appointed as VTB Capital’s Head of Multiproduct Sales for China, where she will be responsible for Sales & Origination and Fixed Income across Chinese corporate, investor and financial institutional clients.… Continue Reading
Barclays names Head of AsiaPac Equities
Barclays has named Nick Wright as head for equities in Asia Pacific. He succeeds Mike Di Iorio, who is to relocate to London. Wright had joined Barclays in October 2011 as head of global markets for Japan, and previously worked at Credit Suisse AG and Morgan Stanley. Continue Reading
Marsh appoints head of business development for MENA region
Marsh has appointed Neil Irwin to lead the firm’s business development across its Middle East and North Africa region. He will be based in Dubai and joins the region’s executive committee, reporting to Robert Makhoul, chief executive officer, Marsh MENA. After joining 1991, Irwin has held a variety of strategic business development, consulting and senior management positions within… Continue Reading
Cantor Fitzgerald expands its credit fixed income team
Cantor Fitzgerald announced the expansion of its credit fixed income team with key appointments of several seasoned professionals, who are all joining Cantor Fitzgerald from Gleacher & Company. These individuals will focus on high yield and investment grade sales and trading, and building out the firm’s credit platform. The team will report to Adam Vengrow and David Pichler,… Continue Reading
BGC Partners Appoints Jean-Jack Badet
BGC Partners announced the appointment of Jean-Jack Badet as general manager of its business in Switzerland. Based in Nyon, Badet will be responsible for all of BGC’s financial products business in Switzerland and helping drive business growth in Switzerland. Badet has more than 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He joins BGC from Tradition, where… Continue Reading
UBS appoints co-heads of equities for Asia-Pacific
UBS has appointed Shane Gunther and Taichi Takahashi as co-heads of equities for Asia-Pacific, according to an internal announcement issued late last week. They will replace CJ Beshke, who is retiring after more than 24 years with the bank. Until this appointment, which took effect immediately, Gunther was head of cash sales for Asia-Pacific, while… Continue Reading
Credit Suisse Group promotes co-heads of investment banking for South-East Asia
Credit Suisse has promoted Edwin Low and Rizal Gozali as co-heads of investment banking for South-east Asia. In their new roles, Low and Gozali will be responsible for leading the bank’s investment banking activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Low, who has been with the bank since 1996, was previously head of Singapore and Malaysia… Continue Reading
Citi Private Bank appoints Global Chief Strategist
Citi Private Bank announced the appointment of Steven Wieting as global chief strategist, with responsibility for formulating investment views and strategies globally. Wieting is currently managing director and US economist at Citi Research. He will report to Eduardo Martinez Campos, global head of investments at Citi Private Bank. Wieting will also be appointed chair of the Global Investment… Continue Reading
Merrill Lynch appoints Head of Wealth Management
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management announced that Ashvin Chhabra is joining the firm as chief investment officer, Head of Investment Management and Guidance (IMG). In his role, Chhabra will oversee the delivery of investment advice and strategy to financial advisors and their clients. He will also lead the IMG manager due diligence, investment analytics, and investment guidance teams,… Continue Reading
Esemplia Emerging Markets appoints head of Hong Kong and China equities
Esemplia Emerging Markets announced the appointment of Samantha Ho as head of Hong Kong and China equities, effective immediately. She is based in Hong Kong. Ho has overall responsibility for managing Esemplia’s Hong Kong and China equity investment team, and driving the firm’s growth plans in the market. Ho has over 25 years of experience in fund… Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank appoints regional head of global transaction banking for MEA
Deutsche Bank announced the appointment of Harold Leenen, as the regional head of global transaction banking (GTB) for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Leenen takes over from Sriram Iyer, who will relocate to London as global head of Deutsche Bank’s trust & agency services group, which provides trustee, agency, escrow and related services to corporate clients,… Continue Reading
Otkritie Capital appoints Head of IT and Head of Project Office
Russian investment bank Otkritie Capital recently appointed Yuri Yartsev as Head of IT and Grigory Kozin as Head of Projects Office at the bank. In his position, Yuri will be responsible for the general management of the department throughout Russia, the UK, the US and all of the regions covered by the company’s footprint. Yury worked for Otkritie from… Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB hires Credit Suisse banker as head of energy
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank CIB, the investment unit of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has reported one more in a recent string of senior appointments, hiring Igor Ukrasin from Credit Suisse as co-head of sector investment banking and head of energy. Ukrasin, who takes up his new job on May 14, spent 15 years at Credit… Continue Reading
CBRE announces senior hire to support Asian capital seeking global investment
CBRE has further boosted its Global Capital Markets group with a key appointment to provide specialised support to Asian capital sources seeking cross-border investment opportunities. Marc Giuffrida will join CBRE as Executive Director and will be based in Singapore from 13 May. Marc will build and lead a team across Asia to further strengthen CBRE’s… Continue Reading
Sberbank makes two hires for investment strategy roles
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has made two top hires for its investment arm Sberbank CIB, with Kingsmill Bond appointed as chief strategist and Andrey Kuznetsov as strategist, both joining from Citibank. Both will be based in Moscow and report to Andy Smith, head of equity research at Sberbank CIB, according to a statement from Sberbank.… Continue Reading
Russia’s Renaissance Capital hires head of EMEA strategy
By Andrei Skvarsky. Renaissance Capital has handed the role of chief strategist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to Daniel Salter, whom the Moscow-based emerging markets investment bank hired from UniCredit. Salter, whose 15-year investment banking career has comprised a series of jobs in London and Moscow, was head of EMEA equity strategy… Continue Reading
Sberbank CIB’s merchant banking team welcomes two senior newcomers
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has reported two senior hires for the merchant banking team of Sberbank CIB, its investment arm. Jonathan Gillbanks joined from Kazakhstan investment group Visor Holding as managing director responsible for structuring and marketing funds for attracting external investment and focusing specifically on technology, media and telecom projects, according… Continue Reading
Prudential Real Estate Investors appoints Morgan Laughlin and Victoria Shigehira Sharpe in Asia
Prudential Real Estate Investors has named Morgan Laughlin head of its Asia business, responsible for managing the company’s operations and strategy in the Asia Pacific region. He will be based in Tokyo. Laughlin replaces Victoria Shigehira Sharpe, who has taken a new role with the global institutional relationship group for Prudential Investment Management. Based in Singapore, Sharpe will… Continue Reading
New Governor of the Bank for Slovenia
Following the change of government in Slovenia, Mr Uroš Čufer has been appointed Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia and took office on 21 March 2013, succeeding Mr Janez Šušteršič. Mr Čufer also becomes EIB Governor for the Republic of Slovenia. From 2004 until his appointment as Minister of Finance, Mr Čufer served… Continue Reading
New Governor of the Bank for Malta
Following the general election in Malta on 9 March 2013, Mr Edward Scicluna has taken office as Minister for Finance. Mr Scicluna also becomes EIB Governor for the Republic of Malta. He was also elected in 2009 to the European Parliament where he served for four years as Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs… Continue Reading
Sberbank puts ex-RBS banker in charge of FICC sales
Sberbank has hired Peter Urbanczyk from Royal Bank of Scotland as head of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) sales for the Americas. {{{*}}} Urbanczyk, whose investment banking career spans over 28 years and includes jobs with Bear Stearns, Credit Lyonnais and National Westminster Bank, will be based at the US office of Sberbank CIB, Sberbank’s… Continue Reading
Sberbank hires ex-Barclays banker to run forex trading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank has hired Steven Weller, a former Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Citi banker {{{*}}}, as head of foreign exchange trading at the largest Russian lender’s investment arm, Sberbank CIB. Weller, who joined Sberbank on March 22, is based in Moscow, Sberbank said in a statement. He has spent over two decades working… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: BrokerCreditService hires ex-UBS banker as senior utilities analyst
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService (BCS) has hired Igor Goncharov, a former researcher {{{*}}} with Swiss bank UBS and Dutch lender ING, as senior utilities analyst. Goncharov took up his Moscow-based position at BCS on March 11, Luis Saenz, head of equity and derivatives sales and trading at the firm’s London office, told EmergingMarkets.me.… Continue Reading
Gazprombank names ex-Swiss banker as head of asset management
Gazprombank has appointed Aylin Suntay, a former Swiss banker who joined the Russian lender in September 2012, {{{*}}} as head of asset management. Suntay headed the small cap equities business at Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management for over a decade before leaving the firm a year ago. In her new position, she replaces Anatoly Miliukov, who… Continue Reading
Former Russian unit of Barclays hires investment banking chief
Moscow’s Expobank, the former Russian retail unit of British bank Barclays, has hired Nikita Riauzov, {{{*}}} an ex-top manager at Russian lender MDM, as head of corporate and investment banking. Riauzov spent nine and a half years at MDM, one of Russia’s largest private banks, first as head of corporate and investment business and then,… Continue Reading
RenCap hires IT chief from BrokerCreditService
Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank focusing on emerging markets, has hired {{{*}}} Vladimir Gibenko from Russian brokerage BrokerCreditService (BCS) as head of information technology. Gibenko took up his new job on March 1, RenCap said in a statement. He returned to Renaissance, where he held IT-related positions before taking charge of the IT service at BCS. Gibenko worked at Alfa-Bank… Continue Reading