By Andrei Skvarsky
Russian investment bank VTB Capital has made another five hires since mid-June as part of its bid to increase personnel this year by 40% to 1,000.
Four of the newcomers are posted at the Moscow office of VTB Capital. Three of these come from rival Russian investment banks.
Pavel Vasilyev, appointed as director of structuring, was previously a director at Renaissance Capital. Dilyara Taktashova, now executive director for legal affairs at VTB Capital, is another defector from Rencap, where she was a senior lawyer. Troika Dialog was the previous employer of Ivan Kozlov, who has started at VTB's foreign exchange and interest rates derivatives desk.
Evgeny Lashutin was an investment analyst with Russian nanotechnology corporation Rusnano before joining VTB as a senior analyst.
The fifth recruit, Yuri Miroshnichenko, is a director at VTB Capital’s London office.
VTB Capital, which is aggressively expanding into Russian and international financial markets, made its debut more than two years ago by poaching more than 100 staff from Deutsche Bank.



