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Renaissance Capital breaks out to Romania

6 April 2011 Deals

By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage Renaissance Capital has been appointed by the Romanian government as chief organiser of a secondary public offering of a …

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New York’s ED Capital launching investment fund for Russia, CIS

6 April 2011 News

By Andrei Skvarsky New York-based investment advisory firm ED Capital Management is launching a fund to invest in Russia and the CIS. The …

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President Medvedev gives Putin ultimatum on state board clean-up

5 April 2011 Hires & Fires

By Eugene Kasevin, Managing Partner – EmergingMarkets.me. President Dmitry Medvedev has challenged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to “initiate” the removal of his deputies and …

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EXCLUSIVE: VTB Capital to maintain domination in investment banking – poll

5 April 2011 News

By Andrei Skvarsky. VTB Capital is likely to maintain its pole position this year as Russia’s leading investment bank for initial public offerings of shares, …

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UBS loses Moscow-based director Manassov

5 April 2011 Hires & Fires

By Andrei Skvarsky. Swiss bank UBS has parted company with Marlen Manassov, one of its Moscow-based directors. Manassov headed UBS’s Russian subsidiary after …

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COMMENT: Mortgage rates in Russia at historical low; demand is recovering

4 April 2011 News

Rustam Botashev, Deputy Head of Research at UniCredit Securities. Ruble mortgage rates in Russia were at a historical low of 12.4% in February – a …

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Credit Suisse launches emerging market fixed income indices

4 April 2011 News

By Marcus Williams. Investment bank Credit Suisse has launched two new Emerging Market (EM) fixed income indices that it says can help global investors …

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Russia Leads The Charge Back to EM Funds

1 April 2011 News

By Chris Weafer, Chief Strategist at UralSib Securities. Investors made a strong return to emerging markets (EM) last week with a total …

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ING rebuilds EMEA research team with new hires

1 April 2011 Hires & Fires

By Marcus Williams. Dutch bank ING is hiring Simon Quijano-Evans as head of research and chief economist for Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa …

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COMMENT: President outlines 10 measures to improve business climate

1 April 2011 News

By Vladimir Osakovsky, Chief Economist at UniCredit Securities.. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has outlined 10 measures that should help to improve the business climate …

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Russia’s DST takes a punt on China’s Amazon

1 April 2011 Deals

By Andrei Skvarsky. A Russian Internet investment fund led by billionaires Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov and owning a 10% stake in Facebook has …

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Micex hires ex-Renaissance manager Vardanian to run IT

1 April 2011 Hires & Fires

By Andrei Skvarsky. Micex, Russia’s biggest stock exchange, has hired Vahan Vardanian, a former manager at Russian brokerage Renaissance Capital, as head of its information …

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Citigroup recruits Popham for senior EMEA role

31 March 2011 Hires & Fires

By Marcus Williams. US bulge bracket bank Citigroup had hired Stuart Popham as vice-chairman of banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). …

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Russian financial watchdog Milovidov to step down

31 March 2011 Hires & Fires

By Andrei Skvarsky. Vladimir Milovidov is stepping down as head of Russia’s financial markets regulator and is likely to be replaced by Deputy Finance …

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