Executive Assistant, Greater London based A UK-based entrepreneur is looking for an executive assistant living in or willing to travel to Haslemere and/or Guildford. Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: · Performing confidential secretarial and administrative duties · Composing, editing and reviewing confidential correspondence · Compiling statistical information or… Continue Reading
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International Counsel, Amsterdam / London based
Major Responsibilities: Legal Arranging and supervising M&A, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions Transaction execution Drafting of multilingual contracts, resolutions and other legal documents Compliance, evaluation and due diligence of the structures, corporate documents and files Consulting on various international legal aspects Liaising with legal advisors and notaries Maintenance of the filing system… Continue Reading
Financial Controller, Family Office, London
Vacancy by www.russiansinthecity.eu A financial controller for a family office Requirements: АСА / АССА / CIMA, 4-5 years of finance / accounting experience, 2+ years (Big4) audit experience Russian or/and UK degree preferable, UK-based (NO visa support be provided) Salary above market rate. Please send you CV with a cover letter to: asakharov.embag2011@columbia.london.edu. {{{?}}} Continue Reading
Inhouse Counsel for a London office
Vacancy from www.russiansinthecity.eu UBG Corporation Limited is looking for an experienced lawyer to join London office on the full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to become a valuable member of the team with ability for further extensive career development in the UK. Position Requirements: • Law degree • Fluent English and Russian,… Continue Reading
Family Office / Personal Assistant to CEO, London based
Должностные обязанности: – Полная административная бизнес- поддержка руководителя ПО ВСЕМ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯМ БИЗНЕСА – Адмистративная поддержка семьи руководителя – планирование рабочего дня (встречи, звонки, прием, пр.) – Travel support – заказ транспорта, билетов; организация встреч, переговоров; др. – выезды для решения вопросов, обозначенных руководителем – составление бюджета по направлениям работы; оптимизация расходов – выполнение… Continue Reading
Markit: emerging markets still “downbeat” about future
By Andrei Skvarsky. Global financial information provider Markit says a survey it made last month suggests emerging markets remain “downbeat” about the future. {{{?}}} “Improving confidence and post-crisis high capex and hiring intentions in the developed world contrast markedly with ongoing downbeat expectations for the year ahead across the emerging markets,” the London-headquartered company said… Continue Reading
Lombard Odier banker: Sberbank, VTB to survive Western sanctions
By Andrei Skvarsky. A top executive at Lombard Odier, one of Europe’s biggest private banking firms, has argued that Sberbank, VTB and other Russian state-controlled banks would most likely be targets of potential Western sanctions against Russia because of its invasion of Crimea but that the lenders would stay afloat without major damage. {{{?}}} Domestic… Continue Reading
Oracle Capital launches advisory service on investment in art
By Andrei Skvarsky. Oracle Capital, a global multi-family office and wealth consultancy, has launched an advisory service on the purchase and maintenance of fine art collections. {{{?}}} A panel of experts would advise on specific paintings and art periods and movements, and address key valuation issues such as trends, authenticity and emerging art markets, the… Continue Reading
EAST CAPITAL COMMENT: Confessions of an emerging market optimist
By Marcus Svedberg, Chief Economist, East Capital.* Arguably it is not very easy to be an emerging market (EM) optimist these days. It seems like almost everything and everyone is against the group of markets that were once the darlings of investors. Tapering is the most obvious cause for pessimism and is the most important… Continue Reading
EBRD co-arranges forum to discuss Armenia capital markets
By Andrei Skvarsky. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and NASDAQ OMX were co-organisers of an international conference last week that pondered ways of building more vibrant capital markets in Armenia. {{{?}}} The event, held in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, brought together more than 100 delegates who represented commercial and central banks, potential issuers of… Continue Reading
EAST CAPITAL COMMENT: Was January’s emerging markets scare justified?
By Peter Elam Hakansson, Chairman and Head of Public Equity investment team, East Capital.* The first month of the year turned out to be a very difficult one for emerging markets, with a fear of tapering by the US Federal reserve and a slowdown of the Chinese economy leading to a sharp sell-off of emerging… Continue Reading
Lombard Odier hails China opting for “better quality” growth
By Andrei Skvarsky. Switzerland’s Lombard Odier, one of Europe’s largest private banking firms, says declining Chinese growth is one of its major concerns from the investment point of view but hails what it sees as China’s determination to move to“better quality” growth, namely from investment-led to consumption-based growth. {{{?}}} Among other things, the Geneva-based bank… Continue Reading
RenCap hires Merrill banker for senior Europe sales job
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian brokerage Renaissance Capital has hired Amr Aboushaban from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as vice-president in its equities sales team. {{{?}}} Aboushaban’s main responsibility will be client coverage in London and across Europe, but his duties will include helping to build out coverage in the Middle East and North Africa, RenCap… Continue Reading
Eurex chief to join Swiss bank Lombard Odier as managing partner
By Andrei Skvarsky. Eurex, a derivatives exchange owned by Deutsche Boerse, is going to part company with its chairman Hugo Banziger, who has been appointed as a managing partner of Lombard Odier, one of Europe’s largest private banking firms. {{{?}}} The Swiss economist’s appointment as the ninth managing partner of the oldest private bank in… Continue Reading
An intelligent , English CV Template
{{{?}}} For professionals working in a new culture, it’s crucial that employers can easily grasp the value of your past experience to them and their company. Unfortunately, there is a lot of terrible advice on the internet and some terrible ‘standard’ formats. The Europass CV template is the most common and probably the worst and… Continue Reading
In 2014 – the big career challenge is to sell our skills
{{{?}}} In 2013, the number of companies involved in corporate recruitment expanded again, for better or for worse. In 2014 there will be type of chaos in the market, which will effect how real people achieve career-defining steps and changes. Executive recruiters; in-house recruiters; HR directors; outsourcers; procurement teams; Linked-in junkies, employer brand managers; company… Continue Reading
FxPro: US dollar, euro, sterling to get stronger, yen to weaken
By Andrei Skvarsky. FxPro, a global forex broker, predicts that the world forex market will be characterised by greater volatility and shorter trends in 2014, with the US dollar, euro and sterling getting somewhat stronger and the yen further weakening. {{{?}}} The dollar will show “conditional” strength, “which means that we are not heading for… Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank selling Russian subsidiary to Aton
By Andrei Skvarsky. Deutsche Bank has agreed to sell its Russian subsidiary Deutsche UFG Capital Management (DUCM) to Russian investment group Aton in what would purportedly make the latter one of Russia’s biggest asset managers. {{{?}}} The deal, which needs approval from Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service, would make Aton the 100% owner of DUCM, an… Continue Reading
Sberbank increases majority stake in venture with BNP Paribas
By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has enlarged to 74% from 70% its stake in Cetelem Bank, its Russian retail joint venture with BNP Paribas. The increase marks the closure of a deal between Sberbank and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, the French bank’s retail unit, announced in July. Sberbank is currently transferring its car… Continue Reading
EBRD invests in leading Turkish textile company
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development continues to boost Turkey’s Anatolian regions, making a €3.7 million loan to Kivanc Tekstil, a leading producer of clothing fabrics and yarn based in Adana. Kivanc Tekstil, 100 per cent owned and controlled by the founding family of the same name, has successfully operated in the textile sector for… Continue Reading
EBRD invests in Turkey's first infrastructure bond
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is supporting Turkey’s first ever infrastructure bond with a US$79.5 million participation in a US$ 450 million Eurobond, launched by Mersin International Port (MIP), the private operator of the port of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast in southern Turkey. The debut bond will be used for refinancing an… Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s BCS gets UK regulatory go-ahead for business, plans hires
By Andrei Skvarsky. The London-based arm of Russian broker BCS has received British regulatory authorisation for brokerage business and plans a series of key hires for the next four to six weeks. The authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to deal with and advise on investments and hold client assets marks the official launch… Continue Reading
Moscow Exchange-Deutsche Börse deal allows selling Deutsche Bank shares in Russia
By Andrei Skvarsky. Moscow Exchange and Deutsche Börse have signed an agreement allowing Deutsche Bank, Siemens, BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler shares to be traded at the Moscow bourse as from September this year. The two exchanges picked some of Germany’s most liquid shares for their deal, Moscow Exchange chief executive Alexander Afanasiev said after he… Continue Reading
Russia’s Alfa-Bank accused of “corporate raiding” plot in Ukraine
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Alfa-Bank has been accused by Crimean Vodka Company (CVC) of a “corporate raiding” plot to take hold of the liquor firm, one of Ukraine’s largest producers of spirits. {{{?}}} CVC’s British owner, Neil Smith (pictured), says Alfa-Bank subsidiaries Empire and Eutilia have been fighting for control of the spirits company since… Continue Reading
Swiss bank Lombard Odier: Russian investors to keep clear of Cyprus
By Andrei Skvarsky. Lombard Odier, a Swiss asset management firm, praises the European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout scheme for Cyprus for making bank bondholders “share the pain” of the crisis but warns it will deprive Cypriot banks of a major source of funding and discourage Russians from investing in the country. {{{*}}} “Unprecedented and welcome is the… Continue Reading
Moscow refuses to refund Russians for money lost in Cyprus
The Russian government will not compensate Russian savers who have lost money in the Cyprus banking crisis but is likely to consider helping companies where the Russian state is a shareholder, the BBC cited Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov as saying. A good chunk of the foreign money kept in Cypriot banks is… Continue Reading
GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: Is There Method in the Madness?
By Jim O’Neill, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (this week’s ‘Viewpoints’). My last week was especially exhausting as there was so much going on and I had to organise so many things. And I wasn’t even travelling! Just trying to keep up with the huge array of things going on everywhere was tough enough, never… Continue Reading
Moscow Exchange launching T+2 deferred settlement scheme
By Andrei Skvarsky. The Moscow Exchange is launching on March 25 a T+2 settlement system, an arrangement where payment for securities that have been bought must be made no later than two business days after the transaction. {{{*}}} The exchange plans to simultaneously continue using its current T+0 immediate payment scheme until the end of… Continue Reading
GOLDMAN SACHS COMMENT: Will the BRICS Announce a BRICS Development Bank?
By Jim O’Neill, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (weekly “Vewpoints”) Most stock markets enjoyed a further rally last week with a lot of subsequent media attention especially surrounding the succession of record highs in the Dow Jones index in the US, although the S&P is still yet to vault its pre-crisis highs. It wasn’t such a… Continue Reading