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- May 2012 (4)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (1)
- February 2012 (4)
- 29: Troika Dialog boosts investment banking team with two senior appointments (0)
- 22: VTB Capital makes new hires in Middle East and Africa (0)
- 14: Renaissance Asset Management appoints Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officers (0)
- 05: VTB Capital announces management changes in its Investment Management business (0)
- January 2012 (9)
- 23: GOLDMAN COMMENT: A Shifting Mood? (0)
- 23: Sberbank of Russia and Troika Dialog Announce the Closure of their Deal to Create the Largest Universal Banking Institution in Russia (0)
- 21: GOLDMAN COMMENT: Europe Needs Growth, not More Austerity (0)
- 18: VTB Capital appoints CEO for Middle-East and Africa (0)
- 18: VTB Capital announces key appointment in Fixed Income (1)
- 13: Troika Dialog Boosts Investment Banking Offering with New Head of FICC Division (0)
- 11: Ovanes Oganisian to Join Troika Dialog as Strategist (0)
- 10: GOLDMAN COMMENT: A New Year Ray of Hope? (0)
- 04: VTB Capital Appoints CEO For Asia (0)
- December 2011 (3)
- November 2011 (32)
- 24: COMMENT: Medvedev raises spectre of new cold war as popularity fades (0)
- 23: Charlie Ryan seals his reputation as Russia’s most successful banker (0)
- 22: RENCAP COMMENT: Time for a Bolder Central Bank of Russia (0)
- 22: VTB to heavily benefit from Sechin’s privatisation initiative (0)
- 21: WEAFER COMMENT: Investment Dichotomy (0)
- 21: RenCap boosts presence in Turkey by taking over Istanbul broker (0)
- 16: Sberbank becomes Europe’s 3rd biggest lender (0)
- 16: VTB Capital plots IPO route through new Hong Kong office (0)
- 15: VTB Capital to boost Hong Kong team fivefold (0)
- 15: Wermuth loses second senior manager since summer (0)
- 14: WEAFER COMMENT: Eutychia and Felicitas Smile on Markets (0)
- 14: RusRating founder and CEO Richard Hainsworth steps aside (0)
- 14: Sberbank to axe 30,000 jobs (0)
- 11: Deutsche Bank snaps up remainder of UFG Capital Management (0)
- 11: US senators seek visa bans for two senior Magnitsky officials (0)
- 11: EXCLUSIVE: Otkritie hires Hyerdale’s D’Angelo to run American sales (0)
- 10: WEAFER COMMENT: Italian Bail Bonds (0)
- 10: Troika hires Standard Bank’s Leith as heir apparent (0)
- 09: EBRD, World Bank try to cut emissions from gas flaring in Russia (1)
- 08: Micex halts trading again for mysterious reason (0)
- 08: Former UBS, VTB bankers hired by Usmanov’s Metalloinvest (0)
- 07: Troika Dialog continues to bulk up with RenCap hire (0)
- 07: INTERVIEW: Raiffeisen staying the course in Russia (0)
- 04: WEAFER COMMENT: Big Boost for EM and for Russia (0)
- 03: BG Capital shutters its Ukraine office (2)
- 03: British man to do jail time over Kazakhstan’s BTA fraud (0)
- 03: Russia’s Arbat Capital hires ex-Aton trader for hedge fund project (0)
- 03: EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog parts company with senior trader Gareth Johnson (0)
- 03: COMMENT: Russia and the WTO (0)
- 02: Russian traders to work around the clock under new business hours? (0)
- 02: VTB inhales one of Europe’s main cigarette makers (0)
- 01: Russia’s sovereign fund claims to have $5bn pipeline (0)
- October 2011 (53)
- 31: Russians invade New York Stock Exchange (0)
- 31: Ernst & Young hires Deutsche Boerse’s Steinbach to run IPOs (0)
- 31: Canadians mull visa ban for Magnitsky officials (0)
- 28: Otkritie Capital to be run by Vadim Belyaev as part of reshuffle (0)
- 28: VTB includes regional chief in top brass (0)
- 27: Alfa Bank promotes Petr Smida to board chairman (0)
- 26: Barclays offloads Russian retail to focus on investment banking (0)
- 25: Allianz’s Russian fund manager parts company with CEO (0)
- 25: Luzhkov to be questioned in Bank of Moscow inquiry (0)
- 25: Micex-RTS merger wins ‘deal of the year’ prize (0)
- 24: Troika Dialog hires Deutsche’s Gordeyeva as senior analyst (0)
- 21: Troika Dialog hires Citi’s Walker in preparing for Sberbank era (0)
- 20: UniCredit sets out fund distribution alliance with BNP Paribas (0)
- 19: Societe Generale’s Rosbank hit by 146.6m-euro fraud (1)
- 19: Otkritie plans 10% personnel cuts (0)
- 18: Sberbank buying Russian unit of Allianz (2)
- 18: KRAUS COMMENT: The Twilight of the West (1)
- 17: Merrill Lynch promises “strategic hires” in Russia (0)
- 17: Khodorkovsky money found stashed in Swiss bank (0)
- 14: Micex-RTS set provisional trading schedule for New Year’s ‘holiday’ (1)
- 14: VTB to axe one-third of jobs by 2014 (1)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: Dutch bank ING goes on Russian hiring spree (1)
- 14: UKRAINE COMMENT: Muted response by markets to Tymoshenko sentence (1)
- 14: Sberbank targeting cheap buyouts in crisis-rocked Europe (1)
- 13: BRIC exchanges join up the dots for alliance (0)
- 12: RenCap continues big-name hires by luring Cheyne’s Hyman (0)
- 12: Ashmore launches emerging market small-cap equity fund (1)
- 12: Chinese sovereign fund punts $1bn in Russian private equity (1)
- 11: UniCredit jobs to go as it ”optimises” activities in Russia? (1)
- 11: Bankers react in dismay as Russia opts to trade during New Year holiday (0)
- 11: Russia to bail out debt-ridden European countries? (0)
- 10: Sberbank may bid for European lender’s Turkish subsidiary (0)
- 10: BNP Paribas may buy out Pioneer Investments unit from UniCredit (0)
- 10: KRAUS COMMENT: The Eternal Russia – The Eternal Return (0)
- 10: VTB Capital hires Goldman banker to run global flow sales (0)
- 07: Mid Europa boosts stake in solar power operator to 95% (0)
- 07: Merrill Lynch dismisses Russian managing director Babayan (0)
- 07: Gazprombank hires S&P’s Trofimova for investor relations role (0)
- 06: East Capital Explorer names Mia Jurke as CEO (0)
- 06: Sberbank, VTB seek limits on foreign banks’ access to privatisation deals (0)
- 06: Danish bank Saxo opens shop in Moscow as others retrench (0)
- 05: Vozrozhdenie bank may be sold to Russia’s richest official (0)
- 05: EXCLUSIVE: Troika close to naming successor to Der Megreditchian (0)
- 05: Putin-VTB Capital love-in gets underway (0)
- 05: BNP Paribas names Moiron country head for Russia (0)
- 04: Renaissance hires Credit Suisse’s Berent to run wealth unit (0)
- 04: Who is Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov ? (0)
- 04: EBRD to invest in Russian housing estates (0)
- 04: Renaissance parts company with two senior managers (0)
- 03: Britain slaps travel ban on Russia’s Magnitsky officials (0)
- 03: Raiffeisen names replacement for Russia head Pavel Gurin (0)
- 03: RTS launches trade in Micex index futures, options (0)
- 02: Merrill Lynch promises “strategic hires” in Russia (0)
- September 2011 (60)
- 30: Aton hands senior DMA sales role to UniCredit’s Somov (0)
- 30: TKB Capital puts Otkritie’s Nazarov in charge of equity sales (0)
- 30: Promsvyazbank hires ex-Aton banker to run trust management arm (0)
- 29: Barclays Russia on the block again as Kazakhs back out (0)
- 28: Financial regulator not to intefere in “more calm” markets (0)
- 28: Renaissance slices 10% of headcount (0)
- 27: Sberbank’s Gref rules himself out as Kudrin replacement (0)
- 27: Otkritie nabs Natkin for New York sales position (0)
- 27: Sberbank slashes branch network by 239 (0)
- 26: Russia Finance Minister Kudrin ‘quits’ after 11 years (0)
- 26: VTB Capital names new co-heads of research (0)
- 26: Reaction to Kudrin’s shock move to quit finance ministry (1)
- 26: RTS Index futures top one million in a session (0)
- 26: WEAFER COMMENT: Dead Cats Notwithstanding (0)
- 26: Kudrin depature to rupture Russian investment case (0)
- 23: Dutch minister urges EU sanctions for Magnitsky’s alleged killers (0)
- 23: Russia seeks to lift the lid on Swiss bank accounts (1)
- 22: Jordan asks to join EBRD (0)
- 22: RenCap hires economist for Turkey, Eastern European countries, Egypt (0)
- 21: WEAFER COMMENT: Let’s Twist Again (0)
- 21: VTB expects bailed-out Bank of Moscow to make rocketing profits (0)
- 21: J.P. Morgan lends $100m to Sberbank (0)
- 21: BNP Paribas replaces chief operating officer in Moscow (0)
- 21: RenCap records 25% drop in London operation’s revenues for 2010 (0)
- 20: Troika Dialog hires Merrill’s Todd Berman to co-run investment banking (0)
- 20: Micex elects new board, with top banks still represented (0)
- 19: Russia’s sovereign private equity fund names advisers (0)
- 19: Troika’s Vardanian quits as head of Skolkovo management school (0)
- 16: Russian sovereign fund for private equity support makes top hires (0)
- 15: BREAKING NEWS: Kremlin gets rid of “business-friendly” Prokhorov (0)
- 15: Fleming goes on hiring spree for Moscow arm (0)
- 15: WEAFER COMMENT: Moscow, twinned with Cushing (0)
- 15: Putin-linked lender to buy out Bank St Petersburg (0)
- 14: RenCap hires Nomura’s Shambayati to co-lead global markets (0)
- 14: Troika names Aton’s Fedorova for business support role (0)
- 14: China to launch investment fund for Russia (0)
- 13: Brits clinch deal with Russian sovereign fund to boost private equity (0)
- 13: The Brits are fast fading in Russia as PM Cameron arrives (3)
- 12: Sberbank parts company with head of treasury and financial markets dept (0)
- 12: Ex-MICEX boss Rybnikov put at helm of St Petersburg commodity exchange (0)
- 12: VTB Capital hires Ilya Veller from UniCredit for equity sales role (1)
- 09: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital hires HSBC’s Desh for senior debt role (0)
- 09: Sberbank lands Eastern Europe outpost on the cheap (0)
- 08: Russia’s Amazon scoops $100m in investment from funds (0)
- 08: HSBC launches emerging markets ETF on the LSE (1)
- 07: Nomura winding down Russian office again (0)
- 07: Sberbank buys 5% stake in Baturina’s Inteco (0)
- 07: Nordic fund CapMan gets chunk of Siberian Web provider (0)
- 06: Magnitsky mother to be questioned by her son’s alleged killers (0)
- 06: GOLDMAN COMMENT: Swissy never lies (0)
- 06: Bank of Georgia seeking premium London listing (0)
- 05: Raiffeisen Russia boss Pavel Gurin passes away at 44 (0)
- 05: Troika Dialog faces management vacuum as Der Megreditchian quits (0)
- 02: Russian broker Finam to launch retail business in US (1)
- 02: WEAFER COMMENT: Slight Easing Into the Weekend (0)
- 02: Merrill Lynch hires analyst from Troika (0)
- 01: VTB Capital reports skyrocketing profits (0)
- 01: WEAFER COMMENT: New month – new hope (0)
- 01: Alfa-Bank to part company with CEO Johann Jonach (0)
- 01: S&P warns Russia about ‘ambiguous’ presidential coronation (0)
- August 2011 (39)
- 31: HSBC hires ex-Intesa manager as head of commercial clients arm (0)
- 31: COMMENT: Banking sector statistics showing accelerated lending in Russia (0)
- 31: Russia direct investment sank 20% in first quarter (0)
- 30: Russian Central Bank mulls two replacements for Melikyan (0)
- 30: Pressure grows on Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas to pull out of Belarus (0)
- 30: Troika Dialog snags JP Morgan banker (0)
- 30: Otkritie hires consumer analyst from Nomura (0)
- 29: WEAFER COMMENT: The Fed’s Gordian Knot (0)
- 29: Barclays gets near to Russian exit lounge (0)
- 29: Renaissance names Yvonne Ike as CEO of West Africa (0)
- 19: Traders wary of Micex’s suspension for ”technical reasons” (0)
- 18: Russian champanksa maker to go pop with IPO (0)
- 17: EBRD attracts SRI lender to Russian market for first time (0)
- 16: State Street appoints Raynes for senior EMEA role (0)
- 16: EXCLUSIVE: Wermuth fund manager Winsell Davies quits for Metropol role (1)
- 15: GOLDMAN COMMENT: Looking through the fog (1)
- 15: Sberbank, VTB and Alfa bring bonuses back to pre-crisis levels (0)
- 15: Kazakh BTA appoints Marat Zairov as its new CEO (0)
- 12: Chris Weafer spurns ING for return to Troika Dialog (0)
- 12: Renaissance boosts wealth management arm with two hires (0)
- 11: COMMENT: Prokhorov changes pose from playboy to political pretender (0)
- 11: COMMENT: Cruel, cruel summer: Screening Emerging Europe (0)
- 10: Otkritie move banking duo to Wall Street office (0)
- 10: MDM Bank seeks Arab, Asian sovereign wealth investors (0)
- 09: RenCap names Goldman banker as head of US equity sales (0)
- 09: Russia’s deputy chairman of Central Bank Melikyan resigns (0)
- 08: Martin Schwedler named as head of Raiffeisen Invest in Moscow (0)
- 08: RTS chalks up a 87% profit increase (0)
- 08: GOLDMAN COMMENT: August Humblings (0)
- 05: Russian Interior Ministry prosecutes dead lawyer Magnitsky for tax fraud (0)
- 04: Sberbank-backed Troika takes out VTB Capital’s Corrigan (0)
- 04: Raiffeisen snaps up Swedbank’s Russian retail business (0)
- 04: Kazakhstani banking: Accelerated lending coupled with jump in NPLs (0)
- 03: WEAFER COMMENT: Howzat! (0)
- 02: Troika lures Klimov ‘home’ to Moscow from UBS in New York (0)
- 02: BCS poaches top e-traders from RenCap (0)
- 02: Evrofinance Capital asks state to halt Micex-RTS merger (0)
- 01: EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Yevgeny Kogan of Moscow Partners (0)
- 01: WEAFER COMMENT: A Bellerophonic Message (0)
- July 2011 (55)
- 29: Former banker Warnig elected Transneft chairman (0)
- 29: Equity fund flows: Investors remain optimistic and sidelined (0)
- 29: UralSib hires Pioneer Investments banker as head of marketing (0)
- 28: EXCLUSIVE: Metropol hires Howard and Brenton for London expansion (0)
- 28: Otkritie changing face (0)
- 27: Renaissance taps Credit Suisse’s Salaheddin in fifth hiring this month (0)
- 27: WEAFER COMMENT: Russia’s August Phobia (1)
- 26: UralSib hires former Barclays analyst (0)
- 26: VTB hires ex-UBS banker as head oil and gas analyst (0)
- 26: WEAFER COMMENT: Elephants and donkeys (0)
- 26: Hillary Clinton bans Russian officials involved in Magnitsky case (0)
- 26: GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: The ever changing world… (1)
- 25: WEAFER COMMENT: Taking It To The Wire (0)
- 25: VTB-led group buys ad firm from Murdoch’s scandal-ridden News Corp (0)
- 25: UralSib’s insurance arm to have state interest privatised (0)
- 21: Russia’s AMT Bank struck off (0)
- 21: Ukraine arrests head of financial regulator (0)
- 20: Soloviev and Moos buy stakes in VTB (0)
- 20: TKB BNP Paribas hires equity portfolio manager from Quorum (0)
- 19: VTB announces “strategic investment” in Deripaska firm (0)
- 19: Barings bets on rally stemming from Russian elections (0)
- 19: GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: Who would you want in EMU? (0)
- 18: Merchant Capital launches Russian UCITS fund (0)
- 15: Weekly equity fund flows: positive EM but zero country conviction (0)
- 15: GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: A messy start to July (0)
- 15: Renaissance carries on hiring spree with Barclays, RBS recruits (0)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: HSBC hires Zhukov from Nomura as head of research (0)
- 14: Troika Dialog launches Internet-focused fund (0)
- 14: Renaissance hires Cherny from Interros, Goldman’s Barinstein (0)
- 13: Third Rome’s Kogan joins Moscow Partners broker (0)
- 12: EXCLUSIVE: Otkritie hires ex-Central Bank economist (0)
- 12: HSBC joins the Russian ETF fray (0)
- 11: PROMOTION: Free 90 Minute Hedge Fund Career Webinar (0)
- 11: Putin and Connie the labrador to be Russia’s next tandem, say EM.me readers (0)
- 11: Societe Generale parting company with senior Moscow manager (0)
- 11: TPG buyout fund starts buying Russian real estate (0)
- 11: WEAFER COMMENT: From the jaws of victory (0)
- 11: GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: China, China, China (0)
- 08: VTB Capital joins the Warsaw bandwagon (0)
- 08: WEAFER COMMENT: Equity fund flows: Keeping the faith…but hedging the specifics (0)
- 08: Troika hires former RenCap, Alfa banker Licamele (0)
- 08: Gazprombank names Deputy PM Ivanov’s son as board member (0)
- 08: Alfa-Bank rehires Tatarchuk from VTB Capital (0)
- 07: Renaissance names head of Asia equities group (0)
- 07: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital losing its gloss in Russian IPOs (1)
- 06: VTB Capital secures Hong Kong banking licence (0)
- 05: Sberbank turning attention to foreign targets as it absorbs Troika (0)
- 05: Top Russian detectives admit Magnitsky killed by lack of treatment (0)
- 05: COMMENT: Last orders! (0)
- 05: Russia’s BCS broker names top analyst, strategist (0)
- 05: Micex launches two new types of futures (0)
- 04: VTB chairman Kostin’s son dies in traffic accident (0)
- 04: Third Rome parts company with senior partner Kogan (0)
- 01: Barings launch emerging markets fund (0)
- 01: WEAFER COMMENT: Fund flows 1H ‘11: Sticking with EM but playing it safer (0)
- June 2011 (59)
- 30: Renaissance promotes Gozdanker to global head of equities (0)
- 30: WEAFER COMMENT: Greeks Bearing Gifts (0)
- 30: Micex, RTS seal merger, Aganbegyan to head new bourse (0)
- 29: KRAUS COMMENT: Why Greece Shouldn’t Look to Russia for Advice (0)
- 29: Two more foreign banks join growing exodus from Russia (0)
- 29: Allianz’s Barulya, Deutsche’s Eshkol hired by Fleming (0)
- 29: WEAFER COMMENT: Waiting for the Greeks (0)
- 29: Otkritie back on M&A trail with acquisition of Latvian bank (0)
- 29: World Bank to buy into Russia’s EBRD-supported Transcapitalbank (0)
- 28: NASDAQ to help put RTS on “fast track to profitability” (0)
- 28: GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: Solving challenges requires leadership (0)
- 28: Troika continues rebuild with two sales hires (0)
- 28: HSBC hires ex-Citi banker as global head of wealth management (0)
- 28: Browder to fight on despite moves to wind down his case (1)
- 27: Sberbank launching DR trade today (0)
- 27: WEAFER COMMENT: Make or Break week (0)
- 27: Micex expects tax exemption law to fuel foreign capital influx (0)
- 27: Hermitage promised help by Kremlin-friendly tycoon Prokhorov (0)
- 27: UK Russia-focused fund makes hires in board shake-up (0)
- 24: RenCap says investing in autocracies means promoting democracy (1)
- 23: Renaissance hires VTB banker to run option sales (0)
- 23: Russia’s Verno comes up with second fund (0)
- 23: Fund set up to get Nordic money into Russia (0)
- 22: Otkritie beefs up fixed income team with 11 hires (0)
- 22: Renesas, Russia and rescue! (0)
- 21: Barclays set to chalk up $500m loss on Russian retail sale (0)
- 20: UBS hires Credit Suisse man to spearhead new strategy for Russia (0)
- 20: Renaissance to help Russia’s electricity grid giant raise money (0)
- 20: Investors less upbeat about BRIC, CIVETS concepts – report (3)
- 20: Credit Suisse: Russia to launch intl financial centre in autumn (0)
- 17: Russia’s Finans magazine closes as investors lose heart (0)
- 17: London welcomes Russian companies (0)
- 16: Renaissance comes up with one more specialist unit (0)
- 16: World Bank to help Russian banks boost capitalisation (0)
- 15: Morgan Stanley buys one-quarter of shares in Yandex IPO (0)
- 15: HSBC to offload Russian unit to Citi for $10m (0)
- 14: Renaissance bounces off the ropes with senior oil and gas appointments (1)
- 14: Deutsche Bank names Knoll as Russian wealth health (0)
- 13: Bank of Moscow’s ousted chief demands $5m for being fired (0)
- 13: Troika wins Naufor’s best trader gong (0)
- 10: Banker Igor Kim to quit MDM board (0)
- 10: COMMENT: Medvedev orders the government to consider larger sales in VTB, Rosneft, and RusHydro (0)
- 09: VTB Capital beats Troika to Extel Award, RenCap Slumps (1)
- 09: Deutsche Bank rehires Elena Loginova from Italy’s Pioneer (0)
- 09: Japan’s SBI snaps half of Metropol-owned bank (0)
- 09: RenCap promotes Khalpey to head of equities in Africa (0)
- 08: Norilsk Nickel hires CEO for newly bought investment bank (0)
- 08: WEAFER COMMENT: The Veggie Summit (0)
- 08: ING bounces back with hiring of UralSib’s Chris Weafer (0)
- 07: Deutsche promotes economist Lissovolik to its board (0)
- 07: EBRD and IFC may take stake in Micex-RTS (0)
- 06: Deutsche moves key banker to Moscow to boost investment team (0)
- 06: Troika tries to boost business with one more fund (0)
- 06: Alliance Bernstein launches emerging market multi-asset fund (0)
- 03: Mid Europa completes acquisition of Polish supermarket chain (0)
- 03: VTB Capital names new boss (0)
- 01: GOLDMAN COMMENT: Gold, myrrh and incense (0)
- 01: Aton banker departs for Swiss firm Axioma (0)
- 01: Sberbank doubles profit, mulls buyback (0)
- May 2011 (61)
- 31: Official declared innocent of Hermitage lawyer’s death (0)
- 31: RTS to launch future trading on its ‘Fear Gauge’ (0)
- 30: Troika hires Credit Suisse, Gazprombank, Alfa sales traders (0)
- 30: WEAFER COMMENT: Herding Elephants (0)
- 27: VTB to invest in Skolkovo projects (0)
- 27: RenCap hires two economists from Merrill Lynch (0)
- 26: WEAFER COMMENT: Deauville bluster … and US GDP update (0)
- 26: Aton boosts team with former Deutsche, ING bankers (0)
- 26: Renaissance re-hires Silva as top risk officer for retail unit (0)
- 26: UniCredit hires senior Allianz exec to run private banking (0)
- 25: Former jailbird Storchak becomes EBRD deputy governor for Russia (0)
- 25: Yandex IPO trumps Mail.ru’s debut (1)
- 25: VTB co-founds $40m fund to invest in media, IT, telecoms (0)
- 24: WEAFER COMMENT: ETF redemptions are the real threat (0)
- 24: VTB Capital hires ex-Goldman banker to run overseas arm (0)
- 24: Goldman has BRICS, now HSBC has CIVETS (0)
- 24: Singapore-based firm launches private equity fund for China, Central Asia, Europe (0)
- 23: WEAFER COMMENT: Unraveling Lebowski’s Rug (0)
- 23: KRAUS COMMENT: The next president of Russia is.. (0)
- 23: Micex names RenCap, Troika, Aton bankers to its board (0)
- 23: Russia backs Kazakh banker for IMF role (1)
- 20: Norilsk Nickel to snap up its own investment bank (0)
- 20: EXCLUSIVE: VTB raids Rencap, Troika for New York team (0)
- 19: WEAFER COMMENT: Still on a tightrope (0)
- 19: Investors’ ombudsman Shuvalov gets flurry of complaints (0)
- 19: Goldman Sachs COMMENT: Some big issues as seen from Asia (0)
- 18: Ex-Goldman Sachs banker named head of $10 Kremlin fund (0)
- 18: Goldman Sachs cosies up with Russia’s VTB (1)
- 18: World Bank loan to make Ukraine less reliant on Russian gas (0)
- 18: VTB looks to close out Bank of Moscow deal (0)
- 17: Renaissance hires for senior New York equity role (0)
- 17: Russia’s VTB marches on Tbilisi (0)
- 16: WEAFER COMMENT: Prevailing Nervousness (0)
- 16: Citigroup cointinues hiring spree with analyst joining from ING (0)
- 16: GOLDMAN COMMENT: Can Equities Rally Without Commodities? (0)
- 16: Hermitage’s Browder wanted for interrogation in Moscow (0)
- 13: Fund Flows: ETFs Are Slowly Displacing Traditional Mutual Funds (0)
- 13: EXCLUSIVE: VTB hires ex-Barclays banker as deputy CFO (0)
- 13: Deutsche banker to co-run Micex settlement depositary (0)
- 13: Renaissance hires Credit Suisse, UBS analysts for Asia team (0)
- 12: Otkritie hires ex-Roland Berger consultant as head of strategy (0)
- 12: HSBC joins Russia ETF fray with new fund (0)
- 11: COMMENT: The Politics of Equity Issuance (0)
- 11: HSBC to retreat from Poland, Chile and Peru (0)
- 11: VTB Capital salutes veterans in London victory day (0)
- 11: VTB parts company with corporate head Tatarchuk after less than a year (0)
- 10: Sberbank beats Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan as a global brand (0)
- 10: Swiss bank accounts belonging to Russian taxmen frozen in Hermitage probe (0)
- 10: Sberbank to list ADRs ahead of $6bn sale (0)
- 09: COMMENT: The Swinging Pendulum (0)
- 06: Kremlin may name Icon Private Equity boss as head of $10bn sovereign fund (0)
- 05: VTB Capital makes the Victory sign for Russian and British veterans (0)
- 05: Eurasia Capital launches Gulf subsidiary (0)
- 04: Otkritie banker robbed of $100,000 and gold jewels (0)
- 04: Bony Mellon back from the brink of in Russia (0)
- 04: Jailed Russian Goldman banker makes bid for freedom (0)
- 04: Hermitage Capital slapped with tax evasion charge (0)
- 03: Goldman Sachs COMMENT: May has arrived (0)
- 03: Eurasia Capital expands in Mongolia with three new outposts (0)
- 03: RTS reports 35.6% rise in operating income for 2010 (1)
- 03: Citi hires RenCap banker to run Russian operation (0)
- April 2011 (63)
- 29: Fund Flows: US Fed Helps Boost Emerging Market Investment (0)
- 29: Renaissance’s Davidenko hired by Fleming Family (0)
- 29: COMMENT: Sell in May or, Stay The Course? (0)
- 29: RTS-backed Ukraine bourse launches options trading (0)
- 29: Turkish bank buys out Russian lender (0)
- 28: Russia M&A volume doubles in 2010 to $95.6bn (0)
- 28: Metropol hires former Otkritie head of investment (0)
- 28: Bank of Moscow’s ex-CEO threatened with “nerve-racking” suit (0)
- 27: Former HSBC Russia head resurfaces at Ernst & Young (0)
- 27: Renaissance launches yet another investment unit (0)
- 27: Russian central banker is highest paid globally with $750,000 (0)
- 26: Silver futures trading on the RTS hits record $325m (1)
- 26: COMMENT: Allowing A Strong Ruble – Lesser of Two Evils (0)
- 26: Germany’s Nanostart to run $73m Russian fund (0)
- 26: VTB protege elected as Bank of Moscow CEO (0)
- 25: HSBC axing 250 jobs as it retreats from Russian retail (0)
- 25: Leading bankers Herbert and Sucher hired by PBN (0)
- 25: Citi names new head of equities for Asia emerging markets (0)
- 25: Otkritie strategist hired to run merger of Russia’s top bourses (0)
- 21: Widows & Orphans Welcome…(+ Exodus of Ministers from State Companies) (0)
- 21: Capital outflow keeps bedevilling Russia (0)
- 20: VTB named Russia’s top bond underwriter in Q1 (0)
- 19: Russian tax officials lead elitni life, Hermitage video claims (0)
- 19: COMMENT: OPEC’s (and Russia’s) Nightmare (0)
- 19: Online retailer KupiVIP wins investment of $55m (0)
- 19: Marshall Spectrum renamed as Spectrum Partners Limited (0)
- 19: SocGen emerging markets banker passes away (0)
- 18: Rencap hires ex-Merrill rainmaker to run Asia business (0)
- 18: Van Eck launches small-cap Russia EFT (0)
- 18: Lukoil tight-lipped on banks to run Hong Kong SPO (0)
- 15: COMMENT: BRICS summit yields fresh call to expand use of national currencies (1)
- 15: Raiffeisen’s profits in Russia soar by 76% in 2010 (0)
- 15: BTA Bank shuts Ukraine office (0)
- 14: VTB executive appointed as interim head of Bank of Moscow (0)
- 14: Troika Dialog to sell Russian funds in Europe (0)
- 14: Kazakhstan makes benefit for President’s son-in-law (0)
- 14: Fleming hires ex-Swiss banker as investment chief (0)
- 13: Ministers rush to resign following Sechin’s exit from Rosneft (0)
- 13: Renaissance hires Goldman banker for Turkey push (0)
- 13: Russia’s Otkritie reappoints Vadim Belyaev as CEO (0)
- 12: COMMENT: Vozmozhno Zavtra (Maybe Tomorrow) (0)
- 12: Kremlin primes $10bn fund for St Petersburg forum in June (0)
- 12: Russia’s Aton names head of asset management arm (0)
- 11: EXCLUSIVE: Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo opens emerging markets desk in London (0)
- 11: Russia insists Skype and Gmail will not be shut down (0)
- 08: Fund Flows: Emerging Markets Are Back (0)
- 08: World-beating Da Vinci fund returns 14% for the year (0)
- 07: $120 Crude: The Sum of All Fears (0)
- 07: Russia ETF by Van Eck hits $4 billion mark (0)
- 07: Renaissance hires UBS banker as Ukraine CEO (0)
- 07: Russian banker Borodin joins the exodus to ‘ Londongrad ‘ (0)
- 06: Renaissance Capital breaks out to Romania (0)
- 06: New York’s ED Capital launching investment fund for Russia, CIS (0)
- 05: President Medvedev gives Putin ultimatum on state board clean-up (0)
- 05: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital to maintain domination in investment banking – poll (0)
- 05: UBS loses Moscow-based director Manassov (0)
- 04: COMMENT: Mortgage rates in Russia at historical low; demand is recovering (0)
- 04: Credit Suisse launches emerging market fixed income indices (0)
- 01: Russia Leads The Charge Back to EM Funds (0)
- 01: ING rebuilds EMEA research team with new hires (0)
- 01: COMMENT: President outlines 10 measures to improve business climate (0)
- 01: Russia’s DST takes a punt on China’s Amazon (0)
- 01: Micex hires ex-Renaissance manager Vardanian to run IT (0)
- March 2011 (59)
- 31: Citigroup recruits Popham for senior EMEA role (0)
- 31: Russian financial watchdog Milovidov to step down (0)
- 30: Russian friends of Facebook set up second fund (2)
- 30: VTB’s mutual fund arm posts 40% jump in assets (0)
- 30: ‘Deutsche Securities’ brand dropped in Russia (0)
- 29: Sberbank, BNP Paribas to launch point of sale loan network (0)
- 29: ING bankers to ski to North Pole for a noble cause (0)
- 28: Skolkovo establishes presence in Silicon Valley (0)
- 28: VTB makes new hires for London, Moscow teams (1)
- 25: COMMENT: Expanding Russian IPO Menu (0)
- 25: Sberbank moves M&A team to Troika Dialog (0)
- 25: ING hires senior credit analyst for Russia team (0)
- 24: Nomos Bank joins the rush for next Russian IPO window (0)
- 24: Report pours cold water on Kremlin’s financial hub plan (0)
- 23: VTB Capital to bring Russian art to the British masses (1)
- 23: Raiffeisen launches new Russia investment fund (0)
- 22: COMMENT: Thwarted Ambitions – Russian IPOs (0)
- 22: COMMENT: Russian economy shows signs of recovery in February (0)
- 22: Russian business in Cyprus may be worth 12% of GDP (0)
- 22: Sberbank racks up $6bn profit in 2010 (0)
- 21: Russia’s VEB opens up Swiss rep office (0)
- 21: Troika hit by two dozen defections (0)
- 18: Fund Flows: Russia joins the exodus from EM funds (0)
- 18: EXCLUSIVE: BrokerCreditService nets a dozen hires in bid for big time (0)
- 18: Troika Dialog makes two major hires for London team (0)
- 17: COMMENT: Capital flight from Russia reached $6bn in February (0)
- 17: Anna Chapman’s ‘space bank’ gets raided by police (0)
- 17: UniCredit makes two hires for Moscow brokerage (0)
- 16: Fleming Family & Partners continues Moscow hiring spree (0)
- 16: UBS name Hartop and Reid as EMEA banking heads (0)
- 16: Goldman Sachs to help boost foreign investment in Russia (0)
- 15: COMMENT: The Sovereign Death-watch (0)
- 15: Russia may push back Sberbank share sale (0)
- 14: Fund Flows: EM Outflows End – Russia Inflows Increasing (0)
- 14: Citigroup boosts Russian team with five hires (1)
- 14: Austrian bank controversially buys Ukraine’s fixed-line operator (0)
- 11: Standard Bank “reluctant seller” of Troika stake to Sberbank (0)
- 11: Fleming hires Renaissance man as chief operating officer in Moscow (0)
- 11: Japan’s SBI to buy 50% stake in Metropol unit (0)
- 10: HSBC Asset Management names Clark for EMEA role (0)
- 10: Law firm Converys boosts Moscow office (0)
- 09: Sovereign wealth funds swell globally, shrink in Russia (0)
- 08: Russia to stimulate private equity with $10bn fund (0)
- 08: Troika Dialog sets up precious metals investment fund (0)
- 04: COMMENT: Middle East & Oil Price (0)
- 04: Standard Bank to remain in Russia after Troika sale (0)
- 04: Renaissance hires consumer analyst for equities group (0)
- 04: Alpcot hires ex-Goldman Sachs director (0)
- 03: RTS Index leads the world in index futures trading (0)
- 03: Sberbank in talks to buy Charlie Ryan’s UFG wealth unit (0)
- 03: Credit Suisse names PwC’s Knoll as private banking head (0)
- 02: Sberbank launches brokerage services for the first time (0)
- 02: Finam hires from VTB and telecom company (0)
- 02: Ashmore to buy US-based emerging markets firm (0)
- 01: Renaissance announces hiring spree for global team (0)
- 01: COMMENT: The Elephant and the Bear (0)
- 01: JP Morgan mulls single-country Russia fund (0)
- 01: Renaissance names interim successor to rainmaker Vanhecke (0)
- 01: Sberbank buys into RTS ahead of merger (0)
- February 2011 (44)
- 28: Renaissance Capital loses Ukraine boss and M&A rainmaker (0)
- 28: VTB hunting for talent among graduates, students (0)
- 25: COMMENT: Putin supports Finance Ministry in policy debate (0)
- 25: Morgan Stanley defector Zabezhinsky resurfaces at Renaissance (0)
- 25: Dresdner Bank ex-head to help Nomos get ready for IPO (1)
- 24: Russia to issue Sovereign Eurobond this week (0)
- 23: COMMENT: Mr. Putin Goes to Brussels (0)
- 23: EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Stanley senior banker Zabezhinsky quits (0)
- 23: VTB clinches crucial stake in Bank of Moscow (0)
- 23: Renaissance buys Deutsche’s stake in RTS (0)
- 22: Vnesheconombank frozen out of Bank of Moscow’s new board (0)
- 22: HSBC said to be closing retail business in Russia (0)
- 22: COMMENT: Surprisingly weak start to the year for the Russian economy (0)
- 22: VTB Capital places a $1.5bn Ukrainian sovereign Eurobond (0)
- 21: Moscow and Tokyo most expensive towns for expats (0)
- 21: Russia Foreign Direct Investment slumps in 2010 (0)
- 18: Fund Flows: Russia still the only positive in a sinking asset class (0)
- 18: VTB, Gazprombank to arm Venezuelan lender (0)
- 18: Renaissance promotes Merzlenko to deputy CEO in Russia (1)
- 17: Moscow’s commercial real estate market doubles in 2010 (1)
- 17: HSBC launches South African ETF on the London Stock Exchange (1)
- 16: Barclays Russian chief to quit in shake-up ? (0)
- 16: Browder seeks alliance with tycoon for anti-corruption attack (0)
- 15: Metalloinvest planning record-breaking IPO (1)
- 14: One more hacker avoids jail after robbing Royal Bank of Scotland (0)
- 11: COMMENT: Equities – Russia Exiled ? (0)
- 11: EXCLUSIVE: Romaev back at Otkritie after less than a year at Sberbank (0)
- 10: Renaissance Asset Managers boosts private client group (0)
- 10: Trading on RTS futures and options market reaches record $7.8bn (0)
- 09: Law firm Goltsblat names Allan for banking role (0)
- 09: Blow to Anglo-Russian relations as Guardian journalist expelled (1)
- 07: Sberbank and Troika’s strange courtship (0)
- 07: Lending picks up in Kazakhstani banking (0)
- 04: Russia Forum – Is Russia the Best or Worst in BRIC? (1)
- 04: Sberbank brings BURK to the investment world (1)
- 03: Deutsche Bank goes ‘underweight’ on Russia after their office is raided (0)
- 03: Renaissance Capital forms new investment unit (0)
- 02: EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog and Sberbank Tie-Up on the rocks? (1)
- 02: Who gets locked up at Troika Dialog after Sberbank deal? (0)
- 02: Micex and RTS merger inked after a presidential decree (0)
- 02: Renaissance Capital beefs up equity sales (0)
- 01: COMMENT: Government may sell a 10% stake in VTB on the open market (0)
- 01: VTB Capital snaps up ECM veteran Tom Kennedy (0)
- 01: St Petersburg bourse to launch metals exchange in Chelyabinsk (0)
- January 2011 (40)
- 31: EXCLUSIVE: Russia bankers to get bonus hike in 2011, report (0)
- 31: Rostelecom to seek London GDR listing (0)
- 28: RTS trading on futures and options hits $7.5bn (0)
- 28: Fund Flows: Only Russia Attracted New Money Last Week (0)
- 28: EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Citigroup’s Pollock hired for Troika Dialog’s Kazakh team (0)
- 28: VTB Capital launches offshore yuan bond trading (0)
- 27: Russian President plans bold new sovereign fund (0)
- 26: EXCLUSIVE: Aton boosts sales and trading with three hires (0)
- 26: Troika Dialog hires UralSib manager for private clients unit (1)
- 25: Sberbank agrees to buy majority stake of Troika Dialog – sources (0)
- 25: Russia to carry on selling stake in banks beyond 2015 (0)
- 24: Van Eck plans Russian small-cap fund (0)
- 24: Sberbank chief German Gref to star at Troika Forum (0)
- 21: Fund Flows: Russia Flows Dominate (0)
- 21: Citigroup to beef up its Russian operation (0)
- 21: Western Union hooks up with Sberbank for money transfers (0)
- 21: RenCap names Varawalla head of new markets investment banking (0)
- 20: Russia’s Central Bank to offload Micex stake ahead of RTS merger (0)
- 20: Goldman Sachs shakes up its Moscow leadership again (0)
- 19: EBRD staff in Moscow in corruption probe (0)
- 19: EXCLUSIVE: Sberbank takeover of Troika Dialog very likely – Em.me poll (0)
- 19: EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Merrill Lynch wealth chief resurfaces…in Liechtenstein (0)
- 18: Troika Dialog crowns Sagiryan new investment banking head (0)
- 18: Otkritie poaches five-member fixed income team from Knight Capital (0)
- 18: Renaissance hires risk manager for equities (0)
- 18: COMMENT: Real estate sector should be in vogue in 2011 (0)
- 17: Gazprombank to tie-up with Quatar firm for $500m real estate fund (0)
- 17: COMMENT: Rosneft-BP Deal (0)
- 14: Russian funds register $200m in weekly inflows (0)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog hit by three departures from US business (0)
- 14: Russian Central Banker Ignatyev named Europe’s best (0)
- 14: Renaissance Capital boosts sales trading team (0)
- 13: RenCap names Clifford Sacks as CEO for Africa (0)
- 13: EXCLUSIVE: VTB parts company with key France executive (0)
- 13: Otkritie starts New Year by hiring three more bankers (0)
- 12: VTB Capital completes clean sweep with M&A title (0)
- 12: Global banks to advise Russia on financial hub plan (0)
- 12: London-based Headstart lauches emerging markets fund (0)
- 11: COMMENT: EM Remains Strong, But ETFs Still Dominate Russia (0)
- 11: Ex-Blackrock fund manager promoted at Petropavlovsk (0)
- December 2010 (53)
- 31: Fund Flows: Investor appetite for Russia continues to rise (0)
- 25: VTB private equity takes $30m stake in Brunswick Rail (0)
- 23: VTB and Goldman advise on $23bn Uralkali-Silvinit merger (0)
- 23: Troika Dialog banking head Sharonov quits for Mayor post (0)
- 23: Russian banks set to raise interest rates, German Gref (0)
- 22: Deutsche veteran Korner hired as CEO of Fleming Family (0)
- 21: COMMENT: Russia considering unrestricted conversion of local shares into receipts (0)
- 21: Gazprombank acquires 9.4% stake in Novatek (0)
- 20: Ex Merrill Lynch Moscow head Bernie Sucher resurfaces at Aton (0)
- 20: Eric Kraus: Muzzled no Longer! (0)
- 17: Fund Flows: Cautious towards GEM, Bullish towards EMEA (0)
- 17: EXCLUSIVE: Gazprombank’s Shashenkov hired to bolster UralSib equity team (0)
- 17: Nomos Bank acquires majority stake in Siberian lender (0)
- 17: BofA Merill names Russia as a ‘Top Pick’ (0)
- 17: EU freezes assets of Russian officials linked to Magnitsky’s death (0)
- 16: VTB hires three bankers for corporate and investment team (0)
- 16: HSBC launches a BRIC index fund (0)
- 15: Micex kicks off ruble-yuan trading (0)
- 15: Micex asks investment banks to value RTS ahead of merger (0)
- 15: RenCap says Nash to be replaced by ‘World Class’ Robertson (0)
- 15: Barclays Capital names new EMEA equities head (0)
- 14: Ex-Goldman Sachs Russian banker faces 15 years in prison (0)
- 14: Wal-Mart throws in the towel in Russia (0)
- 14: VTB issues first ever yuan Eurobond by non-Chinese bank (0)
- 13: Renaissance Capital left reeling as analyst Roland Nash quits (0)
- 13: Spain’s Banco Santander retreats from Russia (0)
- 13: Russia to post “disappointing” growth rate in 2011, RenCap (0)
- 10: Troika Dialog banker indicted for US wire fraud scam (0)
- 10: COMMENT: Hiring picks up in Russian real estate sector (0)
- 10: Renaissance revamps troubled fund management business again (0)
- 10: VTB mutual funds among November’s best-performing (0)
- 09: COMMENT: CBR hints at rate hike in early 2011, as capital flight continues (0)
- 09: HSBC hires head for private bank in Central and Eastern Europe (0)
- 09: Troika Dialog returns to profit as Sberbank hovers (0)
- 08: EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s Transaero sets course for $400m IPO (0)
- 08: Ducks line up for Russian equities as EU backs WTO membership (0)
- 07: WTO Entry: finishing post in sight (0)
- 07: Renaissance Capital poised to open in Turkey (0)
- 07: Deutsche Boerse eyes 25% stake in combined RTS-Micex (0)
- 06: VTB acquires stake in Rosbank as Russian M&А accelerates (0)
- 06: TNK-BP to start trading today on the Micex (0)
- 06: UralSib owner sells his supermarket chain to X5 (0)
- 03: Troika Dialog banker faces up to 20 years in US prison on fraud charges (0)
- 03: Russian futures hit record high on World Cup win (0)
- 03: Macquarie, Renaissance make first investment after 3 years (0)
- 03: Nomos joins Russian banking IPO queue (0)
- 02: UniCredit to rollout 900 branches in Central and Eastern Europe (0)
- 02: Renaissance names Robert Hanson as international adviser (0)
- 02: Russia’s Metropol launches hotel in Belgrade (0)
- 02: Sberbank considers foreign listing (0)
- 01: EXCLUSIVE: Troika beefs up its trading team (0)
- 01: Shuvalov flexes his muscles as Russia’s Investor Ombudsman (0)
- 01: Frankfurt bank Metzler launches Russian fund (0)
- November 2010 (73)
- 30: Gulf sovereign fund takes a punt on Russia (0)
- 30: TKB Capital is frozen out of VTB takeover (0)
- 30: World Cup 2018: A Potential Catalyst for Modernization (0)
- 30: Deripaska IPO in Hong Kong postponed (0)
- 29: Towers Watson names new EMEA head (0)
- 29: Baring Vostok tunes into Russian cable TV (0)
- 29: Yandex lines up $1.5bn IPO in London (0)
- 26: Russia eyes Britiain’s high-street banks (0)
- 26: EXCLUSIVE: UniCredit hires Cheporov as equities head (0)
- 26: Renaissance Credit doubles number of branches (0)
- 26: Baring Vostok set to buy stake in Russia’s Orient Express (0)
- 25: COMMENT: Russia moves yet closer to WTO membership (0)
- 25: Just one-tenth of Russian IPOs reach the finishing line (0)
- 25: Bank of Moscow shares rise as VTB hovers (0)
- 25: The Brits come to town to do business (1)
- 24: EXCLUSIVE: JP Morgan hires former RenCap strategist (0)
- 24: Otkritie hires new head of corporate finance (0)
- 24: MDM Bank closes London, Prague and Almaty offices (0)
- 23: RTS launches trading on copper futures (0)
- 23: VTB Capital names Judy Lim as Singapore boss (0)
- 23: Otkritie boosts oil and gas research with another RenCap hire (1)
- 23: VTB Capital wins best M&A adviser gong (0)
- 23: ‘Yippy-ki-yay’: Bruce Willis signs for Trust Bank (0)
- 23: Wermuth announces appointment of Russia head (0)
- 22: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital hires derivatives specialist from UniCredit (0)
- 22: UralSib lines up IPO or strategic sale for 2011 (0)
- 19: Mortgages: in vogue again? (1)
- 19: Mail.ru boss sends out signal to Twitter (0)
- 19: Deutsche Bank sets up alliance with Belarus bank (0)
- 18: RTS sets new trading record for derivatives (0)
- 18: Russia rubber-stamps $33bn sell-off over three years (0)
- 18: Renaissance hires former JP Morgan banker as sales trader (1)
- 18: RTS head slams idea of state sales on London Stock Exchange (0)
- 18: EU again urges Russia to probe Magnitsky death (0)
- 17: Renaissance hires ex-Uralsib man for equity derivatives (0)
- 17: Investors embrace riskier assets after QE2, Bofa Merrill Lynch (0)
- 17: Sberbank to hive off property assets into new developer, report (0)
- 16: COMMENT: Irish Risk Migration (0)
- 16: EXCLUSIVE: Russian investors shunned Mail.ru IPO (0)
- 16: Russia’s VTB lines up two M&A targets (0)
- 16: Northern Trust names Wilson Leech as EMEA head (0)
- 15: RTS selects Troika, Rencap, Alfa and Morgan Stanley for IPO (0)
- 15: EXCLUSIVE: Aton Capital hires Gronbjerg for sales & trading (0)
- 15: Bahrain bank becomes first Arab lender in Russia (0)
- 12: Sberbank to issue American Express cards in Russia (0)
- 12: COMMENT: Equities – Kicking and Screaming (0)
- 12: Russia’s Rosinter picks up East Capital award for growth (0)
- 11: VTB Capital takes ECM title from Renaissance Capital (0)
- 11: EXCLUSIVE: Aton Capital’s deputy CEO Sarantsev quits (1)
- 11: ICMA promotes Russia and CIS to new status (0)
- 10: Rencap to host first investor conference in Hong Kong (0)
- 09: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital hires two bankers from UK broker ICAP (0)
- 09: Warsaw Stock Exchange rings up 25% gain on its debut (0)
- 09: Medvedeva named chief executive of Micex (0)
- 09: ‘Golden ticket’ winner Merill Lynch named to sell VTB stake, report (0)
- 09: Transcontainer sets pricing at bottom of the range (0)
- 09: iShares to kick-off trading in Russian index fund on Wednesday (0)
- 09: RTS shareholders cool on Micex plan to merge (0)
- 08: International banks to cash in on Russia affluent sector, report (0)
- 08: RTS Index closes in on yearly high (0)
- 08: Russian government mull sale of equity-linked bonds (0)
- 05: Russia’s Mail.ru surges 40 percent on London debut (0)
- 05: EXCLUSIVE: RBS hires Eli Vichman as head of volatility trading for emerging markets (0)
- 04: Russia blocks Irish and Spanish debt from its sovereign funds (0)
- 04: Mail.Ru set to become the hottest Russian IPO ever (0)
- 03: RTS Stock Exchange plots IPO worth up to $500m (0)
- 03: Russian armed police storm Lebedev’s National Reserve Bank (0)
- 02: FT Moscow journalist accused of espionage (0)
- 02: Renaissance launches funds for emerging Europe and Russia (0)
- 01: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital hires Paul Swigart to lead Wall Street debut (1)
- 01: Fund Flows: Russia back on top (0)
- 01: Billionaire Kerimov hires ex-Alfa man to take on PIK’s problems (0)
- 01: Russia’s VTB sets up investment fund with Vietnamese bank (0)
- October 2010 (48)
- 29: Russian company looks to list in Poland (0)
- 28: Citigroup, Barclays, UBS lose out on Russia state bumper payday (0)
- 28: Troika to launch mutual funds in Ukraine (0)
- 28: Metropol hires Credit Suisse private banking head as CEO (0)
- 28: Russia chooses Banks for Eurobond ruble ‘Golden Ticket’ (0)
- 28: Rencap becomes investment adviser to Belarus (0)
- 27: INTERVIEW: Wood & Co. boosts emerging markets, opens in Moscow (0)
- 27: EXCLUSIVE: TPG’s man in Moscow quits for Dubai (0)
- 27: Emerging markets to escape double dip, says Allianz Global Investors (0)
- 26: Gartmore hires for emerging markets (0)
- 26: EXCLUSIVE: Otkritie lands Troika Dialog’s head of derivatives (1)
- 26: Turkish lender Isbank to acquire Russia’s Sofia bank (0)
- 26: Ex-Microsoft Russia boss to lead VTB subsidiaries unit (0)
- 25: Trading volume on RTS derivatives hits historical highs (0)
- 25: EXCLUSIVE: UralSib exodus continues as Otkrite come calling again (1)
- 25: Mail.ru IPO sparks interest after string of turkeys (0)
- 22: COMMENT: Privatization rally proves market inefficiency (0)
- 22: Renaissance Capital boosts African research team (0)
- 22: VTB in talks with BNP Paribas over funds alliance (0)
- 22: Singapore Exchange hires banker to target Russian companies (0)
- 21: Renaissance Capital rubbishes “hidden” debt troubles (0)
- 21: Investment banks get ready for Russia’s $60bn asset sale bonaza (0)
- 21: Goldman Sachs lures UBS economist Clemens Grafe (0)
- 20: Renaissance Capital internal loans allegedly top $700m (0)
- 20: COMMENT: Is Prosperity Capital playing with Putin fire ? (0)
- 20: EXCLUSIVE: UniCredit research chief Ben Carey goes over to Rencap (1)
- 20: Investors pile into emerging markets ahead of QE2, says survey (0)
- 19: VTB Capital maintains lead in Russian debt market (0)
- 19: Troika Dialog hires Renaissance’s Linchik for funds role (0)
- 19: Russia’s Shuvalov to be inundated after appointment as ombudsman (0)
- 19: EXCLUSIVE: Two senior bankers quit Moscow’s Aton (0)
- 18: Gazprom economist found shot dead in Moscow (0)
- 18: VTB Capital to enter Latin America (0)
- 15: COMMENT: Crouching Bear … Hidden In The Woods (0)
- 15: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital boosts London sales with two senior hires (0)
- 15: EXCLUSIVE: Metropol names new heads for debt & derivatives, research (0)
- 14: Ashmore share price soars 6% on asset flows (0)
- 14: Troika hires ‘Swiss banker’ as head of private banking (0)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: Barclays Capital hires senior Troika Dialog analyst (0)
- 14: Sberbank may retain Sherbovich to advise on Troika deal (0)
- 13: Renaissance Capital Hires “World-Class” Robertson from ING (0)
- 13: Sberbank has the belly for Delhi (0)
- 13: Renaissance Capital goes down on the farm with new unit (0)
- 13: Troika fund to invest in Brazil, Russia, India, China (0)
- 13: Russian Spy Anna Chapman ignites Russia’s Space Bank (0)
- 12: Rencap’s Alexander Burgansky joins the exodus to Otkritie (0)
- 12: EXCLUSIVE: UniCredit taps ING’s Daniel Salter for senior research role (0)
- 12: EXCLUSIVE: Diamond Age seeks new investor after billionaire Abramov exits (0)
- September 2010 (2)
- August 2010 (11)
- 06: Moscow City faces Apocalypse Now (0)
- 05: VTB to palm stake to Gulf investor? (0)
- 05: HSBC names Huseyin Ozkaya to run Russian operation (0)
- 04: Aton Capital plunders Dushin from UniCredit (0)
- 04: EXCLUSIVE: Citigroup hit by another Russian departure (0)
- 04: Banks slap $6bn valuation on Digital Sky Networks (0)
- 04: Sberbank hires former Onexim adviser for PR (0)
- 03: Citigroup names Slavinskiy as head of energy banking for EMEA (0)
- 03: EXCLUSIVE: Troika’s sales chief leaves after just three months (0)
- 02: COMMENT: Central Bank of Russia keeps rates unchanged as recovery gains strength (0)
- 02: Russia’s MDM Bank cuts executive board by one-third (0)
- July 2010 (53)
- 30: Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse take stakes in Bank of Moscow (0)
- 30: RTS re-elects Der Megreditchian as chairman (0)
- 29: BNY Mellon boosts Russia business with VEB mandate (0)
- 29: Daiwa boosts fixed income in Korea and India (0)
- 29: Renaissance boosts fund management team (0)
- 28: Prosperity Capital raises just $150m for Quest 11 (0)
- 28: Russian state to relinquish control of Micex in IPO (0)
- 27: VTB hires Vladimir Potapov from Troika for asset management (0)
- 26: COMMENT: State could sell stakes in 10 major companies and banks (0)
- 26: VTB Capital hires private equity specialist and consultant (1)
- 23: Credit Suisse finally appoints Steven Hellman as head of Russia (1)
- 23: EXCLUSIVE: Alfa-Bank denies rumours head of corporate finance is leaving (0)
- 21: Star fund manager quits London for bank in… Kazakhstan (0)
- 20: Vardanian to sell out of Troika? (0)
- 20: Headhunter Antal Russia opens in Almaty (0)
- 20: NASDAQ to provide Micex with data audit (0)
- 19: COMMENT: Patchy Recovery, Rocky Markets (0)
- 19: EXCLUSIVE: Revolving doors for Moscow’s economists as Trust’s Bragin quits (0)
- 16: Deutsche Bank names new deputy head of banking in Moscow (0)
- 16: The RTS makes it to 15 years of age ! (0)
- 16: EXCLUSIVE: UniCredit to bounce back in Russia ? (0)
- 15: Only one tenth of Russian and CIS IPOs placed in 2010 (0)
- 15: Rostelecom appoints former fund group CEO (0)
- 14: Barcap’s EMEA equities boss quits (0)
- 14: What happened to Rencap’s colonialism in Africa ? (0)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital boost staff with five hires (0)
- 13: Investors switch from US equities into emerging markets, report (0)
- 13: Otkritie launches new trading platform for the Micex (0)
- 12: Emerging markets manager Hexam goes solo (0)
- 12: Former UniCredit research head Robinson resurfaces (0)
- 09: TransCreditBank boss named KIT Finance chairman (0)
- 09: Former HSBC head in Russia to join Skolkovo (0)
- 09: VTB Capital collects top equity and debt gongs (0)
- 09: COMMENT: Capping Prices – Curbing Enthusiasm (1)
- 09: Deutsche Bank fights back with head of equities hire in Russia (0)
- 08: RTS to launch trading in option contracts in EUR/USD (0)
- 08: EXCLUSIVE: Barclays makes its most senior Russian hire in 2010 (0)
- 08: Framlington Axa’s emerging markets team quits (0)
- 07: Russian real estate investor Storm lists in Norway (0)
- 07: First Russian banking default since the ‘Wild East’ days (0)
- 07: Troika slashes RTS year-end target (0)
- 06: Plea to shield ‘murdered’ Magnitsky’s lawyers (1)
- 06: COMMENT: Russian government begins discussion of retirement age reform (0)
- 06: Barclays Capital kicks off Russian equity coverage (0)
- 05: MDM Bank names Sergei Timofeev to replace Igor Kim as head (0)
- 05: VTB lines up bid for TransCreditBank (0)
- 05: EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog loses senior fixed income analyst (0)
- 02: Jupiter boosts emerging markets (0)
- 02: Morgan Stanley finally offloads Russian mortgage unit (1)
- 01: COMMENT: G20 Toronto summit and exchange rates (1)
- 01: MICEX faces shake-up as depository plans get off the ground (0)
- 01: EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche’s Brady Martin hired By Citigroup (0)
- 01: BNP Paribas muscles its brand into Russian asset management (0)
- June 2010 (55)
- 30: Deutsche Bank ramps up Moscow global markets team (0)
- 30: GUEST COMMENT: Russia 2H10: Expect More Action in the Second Half (1)
- 29: Charlemagne defies market conditions with new EM fund (0)
- 29: Hellenic Bank to enter Russian market (0)
- 29: Mobius elected to the board of Lukoil (0)
- 29: Sberbank to hire deputy CEOs for retail and international (0)
- 28: Rich Russians swell by 21% last year (0)
- 28: KIT and Fortis brands dropped from Russian funds (0)
- 28: Rencap to hire 15 for new Hong Kong office (0)
- 25: Yet another Renaissance Capital joint venture (0)
- 25: Igor Kim to quit as MDM Bank CEO (1)
- 25: COMMENT: Russia’s President hints at a second term in 2012 (0)
- 25: Russian funds attract $125m in weekly flows (0)
- 24: Credit Suisse shake-up leaves hole at the top in Russia (0)
- 24: Sberbank ex-deputy chairman Salonen gets top job with Promsvyazbank (0)
- 23: Exclusive: VTB Capital boosts its equity team (0)
- 23: Barclays bankers quit in Moscow (0)
- 23: GUEST COMMENT: Khodorkovsky Trial Exposes Reform Progress (3)
- 22: Lawson exits HSBC hot seat in Russia (0)
- 22: EXCLUSIVE: Rencap hires Deutsche Bank’s Abbott to co-run equity sales (0)
- 21: Troika offloads Kamaz stake for $428m (0)
- 21: RBS continues sell-off in emerging markets with Kazakh sale (0)
- 21: RTS profits jump by 20% (0)
- 18: Swedish investment firm closing its Russia real estate fund (4)
- 18: Russia Today: D’oh! (0)
- 17: Russian Standard ex-bosses to run new retailing unit at TransCreditBank (0)
- 17: Alfa Bank’s Tatarchuk to most likely become VTB deputy CEO (0)
- 17: EXCLUSIVE: Uralsib parts company with top analyst with no replacement (1)
- 16: ING hires economist to replace Tatiana Orlova (0)
- 16: East Capital completes acquisition of Chinese fund manager (0)
- 15: Sberbank sets up two Moscow offices to serve wealthy clients (0)
- 15: COMMENT: It is now safe to work for a Russian bank (1)
- 15: Six former Kazimir managers surface at Verno Capital (0)
- 11: Rencap shares top billing with Troika Dialog at I.I. awards (0)
- 11: Russia funds lead the BRIC pack (0)
- 10: Citigroup hire Polish head as banks blitzkrieg Poland (0)
- 10: EXCLUSIVE: TransCreditBank buys out KIT Finance (0)
- 10: Nick Jordan makes a comeback as head of UBS (0)
- 09: Russian Standard Bank hires private banking chief (0)
- 09: EXCLUSIVE: Metropol sets up a new debt division (0)
- 09: Sberbank registers brokerage and asset management companies (0)
- 08: VTB Capital to boost its Asian business (0)
- 08: EXCLUSIVE: UBS hires RenCap’s ex-head of debt Sizov (0)
- 07: Investors seek 20% discounts on Russian IPOs (0)
- 07: EXCLUSIVE: Troika Dialog loses star trader (0)
- 04: Alfa Bank’s Tatarchuk to join the new influx at VTB ? (0)
- 04: Rencap’s Aganbegyan quits Rencap to join Micex (0)
- 03: Elbrus rises from the embers of Renaissance Private Equity (0)
- 03: EXCLUSIVE: ING hires former Troika banker Gibney (0)
- 03: COMMENT: Government agrees on $75/bbl oil price forecast for budget (0)
- 02: Rencap returns with its Moscow investment forum (0)
- 02: Russia to launch ETFs in 2010 (0)
- 01: COMMENT: RTS – Singed paws (0)
- 01: Siguler Gruff takes a leap of faith in Russia’s Silicon Valley (0)
- 01: EXCLUSIVE: Sunshine tipped for Metropol asset management role (1)
- May 2010 (44)
- 31: Barclays considers selling Russian banks to Renaissance (0)
- 28: COMMENT: Why Russian wealth investors are looking at Frontier Markets (0)
- 27: Middle East investors to ramp up emerging markets exposure (0)
- 27: EXCLUSIVE: Sberbank hires Romaev as head of new debt unit (0)
- 27: Deutsche Bank opens second office in St. Petersburg (0)
- 27: COMMENT: VTB to unveil new strategy today (0)
- 26: Half of Russian bankers not paid bonuses, report (0)
- 26: RTS launches specialist Siberian Index (0)
- 25: Otkritie beefs up its London operation (0)
- 25: Lender Orient Express joins the IPO train (0)
- 25: VTB’s Patrushev named new head of Russian Agriculture Bank (0)
- 25: Exclusive: Deutsche Bank back in the hiring game in Russia ? (0)
- 24: UniCredit hit by more defections from its Russian team (0)
- 24: VTB Capital buys its old office block (0)
- 21: EBRD invests $50m in Russian private fund (0)
- 21: Fund Flows: Sentiment is Finely (Dangerously) Balanced (0)
- 20: EXCLUSIVE: Metropol’s Sunshine to step out of the banking limelight? (0)
- 19: Troika Dialog: the best investment bank in Russia ? (0)
- 19: Pendill named as head of Citigroup’s multinationals team for Middle East (0)
- 18: Troika’s Vaz Pinto resurfaces at Soc Gen (0)
- 18: Credit Suisse reopens in Poland with 6 hires (0)
- 18: Ukraine names VTB, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan for Eurobond (0)
- 18: Akin Gump adds partner to Moscow practice (0)
- 17: EXCLUSIVE: Rencap hires a director for Special Situations Group (0)
- 17: VTB to form partnership with one of Ukraine’s largest banks (0)
- 14: Crossbridge Capital hires director for Russia and CIS (0)
- 14: Russia posts first weekly fund outflows in 12 weeks (0)
- 13: Riccardo Orcel to run BoFA Merrill Lynch in Russia? (1)
- 13: Mid Europa Partners buys out Czech solar power firm (0)
- 12: Rencap and Australia’s Macquarie Deepen their Alliance (0)
- 12: COMMENT: Eurozone bailout and QE from ECB to boost Russian equities and the ruble (0)
- 12: VTB Capital buys minority stake in major European software developer (0)
- 11: David May quitting as HSBC’s EMEA equity research head, likely to join RBC (0)
- 11: COMMENT: Hiring restarts in Russia’s bruised real estate market (0)
- 07: Exclusive: VTB hires Jaeckel as deputy head of quant research (0)
- 07: Sberbank retail chief Davydov dies (0)
- 07: Rencap Get Carter for derivatives role (0)
- 07: COMMENT: Ruble and Russian markets extend decline on external news flow (0)
- 06: MICEX fined as Russia’s financial watchdog finally begins to bark (0)
- 06: BofA Merrill Lynch boost EMEA research with three hires (0)
- 05: Who’s left at Nomura’s Russia team? (0)
- 05: Regulator accuses Troika Dialog of breaking monopoly law (0)
- 04: Fund Flows: Sticking with Emerging Markets and Russia (0)
- 04: Rencap acquires South African broker for $28.2m (0)
- April 2010 (49)
- 30: Jefferies hires for expansion of emerging markets business (0)
- 29: UBS hires Gregg Robins as head of wealth management in Russia (0)
- 29: EXCLUSIVE: Tatiana Orlova quits as ING’s senior economist for Russia (0)
- 29: IPM raises €50 for new emerging markets fund (0)
- 28: COMMENT: Government mulls protectionist moves to protect industries from ruble strength (0)
- 28: Troika Dialog hires VTB defector as head of internal audit (0)
- 28: Morgan Stanley name duo to replace rainmaker Yan Tavrovsky (0)
- 27: Fleming hires Troika Dialog duo in expansion (0)
- 27: Morgan Stanley banker quits for oil giant Rosneft (0)
- 27: Russia’s RTS to start trading 30 minutes earlier on May 17 (0)
- 26: VTB to advertise on the BBC (0)
- 23: Almost 50 IPO ‘Turkeys’ from Russia and the CIS queue up (0)
- 23: Champanska corks pop on Russia’s return to the capital markets (0)
- 23: Magnitsky ‘tortured’ and ‘murdered’ claim human rights activists (0)
- 22: Citigroup set ups investment banking team in Poland (0)
- 22: COMMENT: What happens with Russian market in May & June 2010 ? (0)
- 22: Exclusive: Royal Bank of Scotland oil analyst quits to join HSBC (0)
- 21: BoFA Merill Lynch hires Nomura’s Meissner as EMEA head (0)
- 21: Troika Dialog worth a $1 billion? (0)
- 21: New wave of institutional and prop trading firms enter Russia, says TABB (0)
- 20: UFG set to close $225m private equity fund (0)
- 20: Emerging Markets to gain great share of private equity commitments? (0)
- 20: RBS sets out its Russian stall by hiring Kremlin adviser (0)
- 19: Evening trading on FORTS hit new record of $822m (0)
- 19: RBC offers emerging markets fund “beyond the BRIC” (0)
- 19: EXCLUSIVE: UniCredit oil analyst Pavel Sorokin quits for Alfa Bank (0)
- 16: EXCLUSIVE: Research head Mark Robinson quits UniCredit Securities (0)
- 16: Fleming Family & Partners name new asset management head for Russia (0)
- 16: Inflows into Russian funds/ETFs continue for the 9th straight week, exceed $1.6bn YTD (0)
- 15: Russian stock exchange RTS opens in London (0)
- 15: EBRD and IFC set up €300n rescue fund for Kazakh and Eastern Europe companies (0)
- 15: COMMENT: Inflation in Russia was stable last week, suggesting further disinflation in April (0)
- 14: EXCLUSIVE: Two senior bankers leave JP Morgan to join state-backed advisory boutique (1)
- 14: Investors ready to jump on the Russia sovereign Eurobond wagon (0)
- 13: UK court convicts Energomash owner over loan from Kazakhstan’s BTA (0)
- 13: East Capital diversifies by acquiring Chinese asset manager (0)
- 12: Troika hires fund management head from Renaissance (0)
- 12: EXCLUSIVE: Switzerland best place for managing Russian wealth – Third Rome (0)
- 09: Inflows into Russian funds/ETFs continue for the eighth straight week (0)
- 09: Troika Dialog appoints Will Hammond as global head of equity sales (0)
- 08: Standard Bank pursue controlling stake in Troika Dialog (0)
- 08: Charlie Ryan severs ties with Deutsche Bank to focus on asset management (0)
- 07: Gazprom selects Gazprombank and Rencap for $10bn bond sale (0)
- 06: Ashmore launches fund to invest in Chinese equities (0)
- 06: Ex-Renaissance and Alfa managers to set up $1bn fund (0)
- 02: VTB Capital names Alexey Zabotkin as investment strategy head (1)
- 02: Russian Railways RZD to launch a full-service investment bank (0)
- 01: Moscow’s Third Rome opens Zurich office (0)
- 01: UniCredit and Russian Standard shortlised as partner for Russian postal bank (0)
- March 2010 (41)
- 31: Russia’s M&A market to swell by 50% in 2010 (1)
- 30: Rencap eyes brokerages acquisitions in Africa (0)
- 30: Russia’s Interior Ministry seeks the arrest of Hermitage Capital partner Ivan Cherkesov (0)
- 29: Exclusive: Goldman Sachs hires former Rencap sales chief (0)
- 29: Moscow’s equity market defy bombs by climbing to two-week high (0)
- 26: Inflows into Russian funds/ETFs continue for the sixth straight week (0)
- 25: Societe Generale sets up unit to serve wealthy Russians offshore (0)
- 25: TMK lists ADRs on OCT platform in US (0)
- 24: Rencap steppes into Mongolia with two tie-ups (1)
- 24: Russian Railways to sell bonds ahead of sovereign sale (0)
- 23: Raiffeisen pushes ahead with RZB in spite of fears for shareholders (0)
- 23: Russia’s government is planning a law to exempt carried interest tax for private equity (0)
- 22: Moscow City centrepiece tower to be completed with Alfa Bank injection (0)
- 22: Pharos hedge fund boss acquires Park Avenue bolthole (0)
- 19: BNP Paribas hires Yulia Tseplyayeva from Merrill Lynch as Research Head (0)
- 19: Denis Kolousov named as head of Finam’s brokerage dept (0)
- 19: Strong inflows into Russian funds continue – more than $1bn YTD (0)
- 18: Linnel named global head of treasury at VTB Capital (0)
- 18: EXCLUSIVE: Merrill Lynch chief economist for Russia & CIS quits (0)
- 17: Nomura’s EMEA chief Sayeed to ‘retire’ (0)
- 16: “Dr Doom” Roubini hires four for market research and strategy team (0)
- 15: COMMENT: Ukrainian Political Risks Reassessed (0)
- 15: JP Morgan lures banking rainmaker back from rival Morgan Stanley (0)
- 12: Russian equity funds surge to 20-week high (0)
- 12: Alfa Group to replenish banking staff after cuts last year (0)
- 12: East Capital boosts its board with Vimpelcom CEO (0)
- 12: S&P raises Ukraine’s Rating From CCC+ to B- (0)
- 11: State Street turns its attention to Russia with ETF launch (0)
- 11: Moscow recruiter Antal hires former Rencap recruitment head (0)
- 10: FORTS futures forex deals top 2009 liquidity list – RTS (0)
- 09: Sberbank in the running to buy Turkey’s Garanti bank (0)
- 08: Aton Capital sets its sights on offices in London and Almaty (0)
- 08: Al-Shams CEO eyes promoting Islamic finance in Russia (0)
- 05: Commerzbank increases stake in Ukraine’s Bank Forum to 90% (0)
- 04: Nevsky’s $3.3bn fund to be liquidated as managers step aside (0)
- 03: Russia’s Pharos named best fund manager (2)
- 03: RTS offers global investors “high velocity” trading (0)
- 02: VTB hires new head for venture capital arm (0)
- 02: $1.25bn Eurobond deal suggests credit market is reopening (1)
- 01: Rencap expands footprint into the Balkan region (0)
- 01: Banker Pavel Teplukhin set to join Aeroflot board (0)
- February 2010 (30)
- 26: Russian funds attract net $214.5m for the week (0)
- 25: Yanukovich vows to build bridge to the west and east of Ukraine (0)
- 25: Profits for Ashmore Leap by 40% in H2 2009 (0)
- 23: Raiffeisen International considers merger with parent (0)
- 22: Rencap hires ex-Merrill Lynch banker for expansion in South Africa (0)
- 19: ETFs provide net inflows into Russian and GEM funds in the week to 17 February (0)
- 18: Societe Generale merges Rosbank with BSGV in Russia (0)
- 18: Renaissance revamps fund management with new hires (0)
- 17: Barclays boss Diamond gears up for Russia (0)
- 16: Lithuania Debt – Capital at a Cost (0)
- 16: COMMENT: Ashmore positive on Brazil after strong performance in 2009 (0)
- 16: Morrell to leave post as JP Morgan emerging fund manager (0)
- 15: Yanukovych officially declared President-Elect (0)
- 15: Petropavlovsk taps former Blackrock fund manager as non-exec (1)
- 14: New York State CRF Allocates to its Emerging Manager Program (0)
- 12: Stephen Jennings takes back the tiller at Renaissance Capital (1)
- 11: EBRD to sell Swedbank Russia Stake (0)
- 11: Alfa Capital boosts fund management team with new hire (0)
- 10: Savings giant Sberbank creates investment banking unit (0)
- 09: Yanukovich appears to win second round of presidential elections in Ukraine; potentially positive for Gazprom, Tatneft, Lukoil, Evraz and CTC Media (0)
- 08: Goldman Sachs loses out as Russia announces winners of ‘Golden Ticket’ (0)
- 08: COMMENT: Kazakhstani non-performing loans continue to decline (0)
- 05: Rencap to add 30 staff following acquisition of FX business (0)
- 04: TNK-BP $1bn Eurobond shows the way for sovereign issue (0)
- 04: SocGen hires ex-Alfa banker as head of Russian M&A (1)
- 03: Troika Dialog Slips from Top 3 Asset Management Ranking (0)
- 02: LSE and Micex deepen ties with launch of Russian IPO platform (0)
- 02: Otkritie boosts Investment Banking team (0)
- 01: Rencap continues hiring spree with Metals & Mining recruits (0)
- 01: Foreign banks and investors to invest up to $170m in Russian bad debt (0)
- January 2010 (27)
- 28: Moscow gets braced for VTB Capital’s “second wave of hiring” (0)
- 28: Russia & China; Inflation or FX Central Bank Policy? (0)
- 28: Merrill Lynch in Moscow ramps up with three sales and trading hires (0)
- 27: COMMENT: IPO pipeline expanding; pressure on the secondary market possible in 2010 (0)
- 27: Former Merrill Lynch investment head Arofikin returns as hiring picks up (0)
- 26: RTS Index futures trade at record of $3 billion (0)
- 26: £21bn USS pension fund hires emerging markets team (0)
- 25: Morgan Stanley banker Miroshnik poached by TNK-BP (0)
- 22: Can Hong Kong dislodge London as the main destination for Russian IPOs ? (0)
- 21: Harvey quits Rencap to return to Credit Suisse in Asia (0)
- 21: Beltone Financial Offers Glimpse into Egyptian Investment World (0)
- 20: Rencap poaches Szalai as head of FIG from Troika Dialog (0)
- 20: Emerging Manager Firm Shares Fundamentals of Success (0)
- 19: RTS launches new index for 15 biggest Russian blue chips (0)
- 18: Teplukhin quits Troika Dialog after 19 years for “new horizons” (0)
- 18: Yanukovich leads in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election; potentially positive for Gazprom, Tatneft, Evraz and CTC Media (0)
- 15: Russian funds inflows: the second-highest in 12 months (0)
- 14: Former Uralsib boss Donskikh resurfaces at Sberbank (0)
- 13: Russia funds both claim best global performer gong over the decade (4)
- 12: Russian chimp makes a monkey out of Moscow funds with her stock picks (0)
- 12: EXCLUSIVE: Derivatives supremo Doug Welch resurfaces at Unicredit (0)
- 11: Russian stocks roar as markets wake from winter hibernation (0)
- 11: Morgan Stanley Launches Emerging Manager Program (0)
- 08: Shari Redstone and UFG founder Charlie Ryan to buy Russia theatre chain (0)
- 07: BRIC equities outperform US equities in the noughties (0)
- 07: Open Letter To Andrius Kubilius (PM of Lithuania) (1)
- 05: Russian Sovereign Bond ‘beauty parade’ kicks off (0)
- December 2009 (19)
- 22: Eurasian Bank acquires Troika Dialog Kazakh bank (0)
- 19: East Capital Russian fund up 1,524% over a decade (0)
- 17: Deutsche Bank hires former Russian competition minister (0)
- 16: Merrill Lynch replaces Castillo as EMEA Wealth Head (0)
- 16: Russia senior police officer linked to Magnitsky case sacked (0)
- 15: Hedge Argentina (0)
- 14: Reborn again Renaissance to hire 200-300 bankers (0)
- 11: Russia’s first IPO of the year raises $4.8m (0)
- 10: Hagmann joins Nomura in senior EMEA research role (0)
- 10: Renaissance opens rep office Belarus before state sell-off (0)
- 09: VEB signs a trade deal with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (0)
- 08: Rencap advise on trio of M&As deals as capital markets warm up (0)
- 07: Key investment themes for 2009 and outlook for 2010 (0)
- 04: Goldman goes long (and late) on Russian equities (1)
- 03: VTB bank takes control of Sistema Hals for just 30 roubles (0)
- 03: Former Deutsche wealth head surfaces at Third Rome (0)
- 02: Banks queue up for bumper payout as Rusal IPO is set to fly (0)
- 02: Exclusive: Rencap names Babaev as new equity sales head (0)
- 01: COMMENT: Dubai or not to Buy (0)
- November 2009 (41)
- 30: HSBC offers wealthy clients access to Allianz Rosno funds (0)
- 30: St Petersburg Bank raises $150m (0)
- 27: Donsikh steps down from the top job at UralSib (0)
- 27: Ashmore Emerging View: Capital Controls (0)
- 27: Saxo launches new credit fund for the Russian market (0)
- 26: Russia to half its bloated banking sector within six years (0)
- 26: EBRD boosts Russian banking sector with Promsvyaz deal (0)
- 25: Exclusive: Trust hires Goldman’s Popatov as it rebuilds investment banking (0)
- 25: COMMENT: Bank of St Petersburg to place convertible prefs at 3%-19% premium to the market (0)
- 24: President Medvedev orders investigation into the death of lawyer Magnitsky (0)
- 24: VTB Bank opens for business in Baku (0)
- 23: Pharos $350m agriculture fund targets Middle East investors (0)
- 20: Norwegian sovereign fund dumps Norilsk Nickel stake for ethical reasons (0)
- 20: Sberbank hires Alfa’s Borovikov for move into private banking (0)
- 20: Moscow Prosecutor denies an independent examination into the cause of Hermitage lawyer’s death (0)
- 19: COMMENT Russia 2010: Worth A Tactical Look (0)
- 19: Belgium’s KBC to sell Russia’s Absolut bank (2)
- 18: Rencap hires Igor Kamenskoy as chairman of the board (0)
- 18: Exclusive: LSE Russian team sees future for dual listings (0)
- 18: JP Morgan and Alfa lose out as Eurasia Drilling pulls GDR placement (0)
- 17: Hermitage lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy dies in Russian prison (2)
- 17: Moos takes up his post as CFO of VTB (0)
- 17: COMMENT: Improving liquidity allows CBR to cut uncollateralised lending (0)
- 16: Rencap notches up its 14th deal in Africa in 2009 (0)
- 13: Pharos Russia fund ranked number one by Barclay Hedge (0)
- 13: MSCI adds Inter RAO and Sberbank to its emerging markets index (0)
- 11: COMMENT: Russian banks: back to the future (0)
- 11: Sberbank Capital muscles into private equity with $14bn portfolio (0)
- 10: Red Star switches focus beyond Russia and hires Scott Licamele (0)
- 10: COMMENT: Russian Reform – A Realistic Prospect? (0)
- 09: Exclusive: Alfa hires new research head from Oppenheim after parting company with Ron Smith (1)
- 06: Tom King to lead Barclay’s EMEA investment banking (0)
- 05: Russia Partners takes stake in MDM Bank (0)
- 05: COMMENT: Russian government plans to redistribute funds pledged to banking recapitalisation (0)
- 04: Otkritie continues hiring spree (0)
- 04: ‘Anyone investing in Russia today is out of their mind,’ warns Browder (0)
- 03: VTB Capital to roadshow PPP waste plant in London (0)
- 03: Otkritie hires former Troika Dialog UK CEO (0)
- 02: Russia performs the worst of the BRICs for weekly fund flows (0)
- 02: Saxo acquires trading and IT expertise in India and the Ukraine (0)
- 02: Exclusive: Goldman hires Mike Workman from UBS ahead of sovereign Eurobond decision (0)
- October 2009 (50)
- 30: VTB Capital and Morgan Stanley arrange $526m Magnit SPO (0)
- 30: Lukoil mandates Barcap, RBS and ING for $1.5bn Eurobond (0)
- 29: Top law firm Simmons joins the exodus out of Moscow (0)
- 29: The RTS Index set to include the RTS Standard prices (0)
- 29: Fortis pulls out of Russia’s insurance market (0)
- 28: RBC agreement on S208m debt paves the way for Prokhorov deal (0)
- 27: MICEX signs cooperation agreement with Istanbul Stock Exchange (0)
- 26: COMMENT: Brazil’s tax on foreign equity investment may divert cash to Russia (0)
- 23: German banks Commerzbank and Deutsche consider move into Russian retail (0)
- 23: Weekly inflows to Russian equity funds reach highest since 2002 (0)
- 22: VEB to flip $7.8bn back onto the Russian stock market ? (0)
- 22: Russia to receive $4bn loan from Bony after dropping $22.5bn lawsuit (0)
- 22: COMMENT: FFMS to ease rules for converting shares into depositary receipts (0)
- 22: EBRD teams up with Kayzna to launch $300m private equity fund (0)
- 21: Ashmore awarded license to access Chinese fund market (0)
- 21: VTB and Troika arrange $680m Evraz bond (0)
- 21: JP Morgan combine with oligarch Potanin for $1bn fund (0)
- 20: Exclusive: Prosperity Capital to launch new Quest fund vehicle (0)
- 20: Aton boosts wealth and asset management arms (0)
- 19: Rencap and VTB arrange $80m Synergy vodka SPO (0)
- 16: Goldman Sachs hires Pavlov for Moscow sales role (0)
- 16: Russia funds post yearly record inflows of $188m (0)
- 15: Carrefour pulls the plug on Russian operations (0)
- 15: Chinese sovereign fund acquires $300m stake in Russia’s Nobel Oil (0)
- 14: Marshall Capital forms hedge fund joint venture with Spectrum (0)
- 14: Star banker Dalman to lead M&A push by Kazakh’s ENRC (0)
- 14: COMMENT: Foreign credit is opening for Russian banks (0)
- 14: MICEX and Shangahai to cooperate on joint indices (0)
- 14: Marshall Capital pulls out of 36.6 deal (0)
- 13: Herrera quits as head of EMEA at UBS Global Asset Management (0)
- 13: The EBRD acquires a 11.7% stake in Promsvyazbank (0)
- 12: RTS Index punches through 1400 mark (0)
- 12: Petropavlovsk to establish investment fund with Gazfond/Leader (0)
- 12: US inter-dealer broker BGC Partners opens in Moscow (0)
- 09: Hermitage Capital hit back against charges via YouTube (0)
- 09: TPG finally closes its first deal in Russia (0)
- 08: Rusano alliance to kickstart Russian venture industry with $150m in funds (1)
- 08: COMMENT: Tymoshenko announces resolution roadmap for Ukraine’s two large banks (0)
- 07: Price range set for first Russian IPO of 2009 (0)
- 07: Advisers named for $23bn merger of Vimpelcom and Kvyivstar (0)
- 07: Exclusive: VTB Capital and Goldman Sachs slated for leading roles on Russia’s $17.8bn sovereign Eurobond (0)
- 06: International banks warn against complacency in Central and Eastern Europe (0)
- 06: Deutsche names Richard Smith as head of EMEA research (0)
- 05: Investors hail peace deal between Telenor and Altimo (0)
- 05: Private equity firm takes a 49% bite out of Papa John’s (0)
- 02: Deutsche Bank appoints Tanna from Dresdner as COO (0)
- 02: Russia funds record $165m weekly inflow (0)
- 02: Trofimov quits Deutsche to join the Aton rebirth (0)
- 01: Emerging market equities post best two quarters on record (0)
- 01: Russia Calling: Rosneft poised to take part in next wave of privitisations (0)
- September 2009 (35)
- 30: RTS soars but foreign investors still lukewarm on Russia (0)
- 30: Renaissance launches private banking operation to counter Third Rome (0)
- 30: Exclusive: Ghavami to head Troika’s global markets team in senior shake-up (0)
- 29: Russia Calling: Putin to raise the curtain at VTB Capital conference (0)
- 29: Russia Calling: VTB Capital returns $500m seed capital to its parent (0)
- 28: Exclusive: VTB poaches derivatives head Gibault from Nomura (0)
- 28: Tinkov’s Twitter alerts Mint Capital to restaurant chain deal (0)
- 28: Deutsche Bank receives banking license in Ukraine (0)
- 25: Rencap advises on PetroNeft’s $27.5m placement (0)
- 24: Credit Suisse secures role on KazMunaiGaz $931m deal (0)
- 24: UBS boosts research effort with senior analyst hire from KIT (0)
- 23: Transaero to list on Micex ? (2)
- 23: Raiffeisen receives $150m EBRD loan for Russia, Ukraine and Romania (0)
- 22: Creditors’ committee sign up to BTA’s restructuring plan (0)
- 22: RenCap rebuilds London operations with sales hires (0)
- 22: COMMENT: Domestic demand continues to deteriorate in August (0)
- 21: Barclays to launch Russian fund management venture (0)
- 18: Barcap hires Bob Foresman for renewed assault into Russia (1)
- 18: RTS Futures enter FIA’s top ten most liquid globally (0)
- 18: New bonds designed to kickstart Russia’s infrastructure programme (0)
- 17: Russia drops $22bn claim against Bank of New York (0)
- 15: VTB recruits Galkin from MDM for fixed interest role (0)
- 14: Quadro raises $200m as private equity fundraising shows signs of life (0)
- 11: Standard Bank raises $1bn from Chinese banks for Asian expansion (0)
- 11: Sidorov replaces Kandel at the helm of Unicredit in Moscow (0)
- 09: COMMENT: Government expects the start of economic recovery in 2H09 (0)
- 09: Aganbegyan switches CEO for President post at RenCap / Credit Suisse hires senior investment banker from Merrill (0)
- 08: Barclays scoop up VTB CFO to lead its Russia business (0)
- 07: BLOG: Can TPG finally complete a private equity deal in Russia? (2)
- 07: VTB Capital raids teams from Dresdner Kleinwort and Morgan Stanley (0)
- 04: Magnit slates $550m SPO for October (0)
- 03: Movchan builds Third Rome with staff and clients from Renaissance (0)
- 03: Hires & Fires: MDM hires head of M&A from Axioma/ McCulloch joins exodus from RenCap (0)
- 02: COMMENT: Second wave of banking crisis looking increasingly unlikely (0)
- 01: Merrill Lynch hires star trader Pavel Naumenko (0)
- August 2009 (27)
- 28: COMMENT: Rise and Fall of Reserve Currencies (0)
- 27: BTA wins injunction to freeze assets of former top managers (0)
- 27: COMMENT: Foreign banking M&A on the cards in Ukraine (0)
- 26: Emerging markets loom large on the radar of pension funds (2)
- 26: MDM mandates banks for $175m loan (0)
- 25: Troika completes funds tie-up with Swedbank (0)
- 24: Comment: Russia’s Spontaneous Stabilisation (0)
- 24: Hires & Fires: Equity departures heap pressure on UniCredit in Moscow (0)
- 21: China fears prompt $1bn outflows in emerging market funds (0)
- 20: Rencap denies trouble at the top (0)
- 20: Report: Fund managers indicate a preference for Russia over China (0)
- 19: Sistema $620m bond deals indicates life in second tier market (0)
- 18: Report shows Russian and CEE business confidence rising (0)
- 17: BLOG: Russian banking carousel spins once more (0)
- 16: Rencap’s $612m Sistema bond mandate takes its recent dealfow over $2bn (0)
- 14: Analysts fret over Raiffeisen and its level of non-performing loans in Russia (0)
- 13: Hires & Fires: Rencap promotes Chervatyuk to head events following Wallace’s exit (3)
- 13: Ukraine’s National Bank publishes action plan for the banking sector (0)
- 12: Troika’s Heyns resurfaces at carbon cleanup fund (0)
- 11: Exclusive: Fidelity launches emerging markets select fund to capture institutional demand (0)
- 11: Hires & Fires: New star trader at Merrill Lynch in Moscow?/ Cordon promoted at UBS (0)
- 10: Alfa Bank merges investment bank with its corporate bank (0)
- 10: Western banks appeal to Russian regulator to back down on IPO rules (0)
- 09: VTB Capital emerges as a player in Moscow’s repo market (0)
- 05: Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch advise Sistema on $1.27bn Comstar deal (0)
- 04: COMMENT: Russian issuers face up to onerous new limits on foreign IPOs (0)
- 03: VEB cleared to invest in non-sovereign bonds by November (0)
- July 2009 (28)
- 31: VTB Capital and BNP Paribas arrange $700m VTB bond mandate (0)
- 30: COMMENT: IMF board approves $3.3bn loan for Ukraine (0)
- 30: Hires & Fires: VTB boosts equity trading/ HSBC Private Banking hires Goldman’s Gurbatov (0)
- 29: BLOG: Templeton set to boost Russian exposure to $10bn (0)
- 29: COMMENT: Watch Kazakhstan for Russian banks’ path out of crisis (0)
- 27: Russia M&A shows signs of bouncing back (0)
- 27: Ashmore launches funds operations in China and Japan (0)
- 24: Evening trade on RTS derivatives tops $600m (0)
- 23: Hires & Fires: Aton Capital snap up Rencap duo/ Otkritie hires Zarya for sales (0)
- 22: Merrill recruits MDM’s Babayan to co-head global markets team (0)
- 20: COMMENT: Russia’s equity market – rising like a phoenix (0)
- 20: Kryukov parts company with Kazimir Partners (0)
- 17: Hires & Fires: Troika Dialog hire sales and trading duo in London (0)
- 16: Raiffeisen boosts capital by €1.3bn as second wave of bad debt looms (0)
- 15: COMMENT: Russia may tap Wellbeing fund to finance budget deficit in 2010 (0)
- 14: Lazard replaces Goldman Sachs as BTA financial adviser (0)
- 13: Troika’s head of sales Gerrit Heyns quits as Standard Bank deal approved (0)
- 13: Morgan Stanley forms Russian real estate joint venture (0)
- 10: Commerzbank rubbishes reports of Russian business sale (0)
- 09: JP Morgan knocks Troika Dialog off its Russian M&A perch (0)
- 08: Abramovich’s Evraz set to raise $900m to meet debt obligations (0)
- 08: Hires & Fires: Unicredit hires senior sales exec Uebel/ Credit Agricole appoints Matthias Warnig/ RTS adds board member (0)
- 07: Revealed: Russian computer whizz in Goldman Sachs trading storm started his career as a trainspotter (0)
- 06: RusHydro kicks off trading GDRs on the London Stock Exchange (0)
- 03: Rencap chalks up six capital raising deals in a fortnight (0)
- 03: Goldman Sachs steps down as BTA adviser as Kazakh banking overhaul limps on (0)
- 02: Barings go bullish on Russia’s commodities play with China (0)
- 01: Blog: Stock exchange dynamo Rybnikov parts company with MICEX (0)
- June 2009 (14)
- 30: Troika taps Sagiryan from Rencap as group president (0)
- 26: VTB Capital wins Pulkovo €1.4bn upgrade tender (0)
- 23: Hires & Fires: Goldman banker surfaces at McKinsey/ Oligarch hires Merrill banker/ Nayak boost Deutsche’s structuring team (0)
- 22: BLOG: VTB Capital targets Gulf’s sovereign wealth billions (0)
- 19: EBRD invests in UFG as private equity fund-raising in Russia bounces back (0)
- 18: Troika trumps Renaissance to top Extel research awards (0)
- 17: EBRD bolsters Troika as banking system battens down the hatches (0)
- 16: Exclusive: VTB hiring spree continues/ Aton Capital ramps up/ Troika appoints UK CEO (0)
- 15: BLOG: Prokhorov and Prosperity Capital close to compromise over TGK4 ? (0)
- 11: HSBC makes its pitch to Russia’s super wealthy (0)
- 08: Exodus from Troika Dialog continues with four more departures (1)
- 04: Hires & Fires: Kandel quits Unicredit as Aton ramps up/ Blackrock parts company with Monoviski
- 02: Hires n Fires: HSBC names Sekora head of personal services/ Former RIM executive joins Fink fund
- 02: M&A activity in energy sector leads Russian capital markets revival (1)
- May 2009 (11)
- 29: Renaissance Capital is axing its annual investment forum / Senior executives are leaving Troika Dialog (1)
- 26: Exclusive: Royal Bank of Canada plots Russian wealth launch (0)
- 25: Hires and Fires: UBS lures Farallon’s Maxim Moshkov/ Unicredit tangles with Aton 2.0 (0)
- 21: Another senior banker quits Goldman Sachs in Moscow (0)
- 19: Hiring freeze in Moscow’s banks and brokerages starts to thaw (0)
- 15: Costello to step into JP Morgan’s Russian breach (0)
- 14: Hires/Fires: Nomura boosts Russian research effort/ VTB Capital carry on hiring (0)
- 12: Exclusive: HSBC pushes ahead with aggressive $200m Russian expansion (0)
- 06: VTB Capital hires equity sales gunslinger Capone/ ING’s Wood hits the road (1)
- 06: Russia to finally admit foreign-issued stocks (0)
- 01: BLOG: Sluice gates for Russia fund flows set to open (0)
- April 2009 (11)
- 29: Troika Dialog taps Nazarov from Credit Suisse for IB (0)
- 28: Rencap’s lightning strike for Sibir knocks out Credit Suisse (0)
- 27: Star biling fades for Moscow’s top rainmakers (1)
- 27: Regulator set to ease pension fund rules (0)
- 21: Barclays Capital maintains push into Russia (0)
- 21: AVIVA trys to crack tough Russian pensions nut (0)
- 18: Emerging Markets: Russian International Reserves Decline (0)
- 13: Blog: Investors shy away from Russia’s bubbling equity market (0)
- 05: Korea and Russia share equities podium in March (0)
- 04: VTB plots raid on Wall Street (2)
- 01: BRIC banks being built to last (1)
- March 2009 (12)
- 30: Medvedev’s charm offensive thaws frosty foreign relations (0)
- 30: Emerging Markets: Russian market update (0)
- 27: Blog: The Revolution is dead, long live the USSR (0)
- 26: Breaking News: VTB snaps up stake in Moscow brokerage (0)
- 25: Renaissance Capital wins first mandate from Prokhorov (0)
- 17: Troika Dialog appoints Boris Todorov as Director of Risk Management (0)
- 13: VTB Capital appoints Wiktor Bielski as Global Head of Commodities Research (1)
- 13: Standard Bank aquires stake in Troika Dialog (3)
- 12: Institutional Investor ranks Russian research teams (0)
- 05: Senior bankers leave Merrill (0)
- 04: JP Morgan establishes local office in Kazakhstan (0)
- 01: Renaissance Capital appoints new head of Private Equity business (0)
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