Elena Tsareva has joined the BCS Global Markets Research Team as a senior banking analyst, enhancing the investment bank’s coverage of a major sector of the Russian economy and satisfying growing client demand for banking research. Tsareva, an experienced and accomplished analyst, has more than ten years of equity research experience, specialising in banking. In the Emerging EMEA – Russia Survey, Elena ranked No4 among bank sell-side analysts in 2018, and No3 and No2 as a buyside analyst in 2016 and 2017, respectively.   Prior to joining BCS, Elena plied her skills as an equity analyst for Sberbank Asset Management

Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Sid Chhabra to the newly created role of Head of Structured Credit and CLOs. Based in London, Chhabra will report to Mark Dowding and Stephen Thariyan, Co-Heads of Developed Markets, and will lead the initiative to establish and manage a new range of BlueBay global structured credit and ABS strategies.   This new capability will be utilised in existing multi asset credit portfolios, as well as in new, innovative stand-alone traditional and alternative strategies. Launches are expected to commence towards the end of the year and in 2019.   Erich

Leading financial risk management consultancy, JCRA, has appointed two senior FX advisory specialists, Chris Towner and Andrew Scott, who will be joining the business in June and July respectively. Towner (Director) and Scott (Associate Director) are moving from HiFX and have a collective 40 years’ experience in providing specialist FX advice to funds, corporates and private equity clients, and are aiming to bring many of these to JCRA with them.   As financial product providers withdraw from presenting themselves as giving advice, clients who need input and best practice guidance on their FX exposure management, increasingly turn to independent advisors.

Mourant Ozannes’ Jersey investment funds team has shown significant growth over the last 12 months with the appointment of three associates, Sally Muller, Rachel McGinness and Faria Rahman, as well as senior associate, Alex Henderson. The team, which is the largest in Jersey, has held its position as the leading legal adviser in the island’s funds industry for 18 consecutive years. This strategic expansion of the team enhances the firm’s capacity to service its client base, which includes some of the biggest players in the global funds market.   Most recent hire, senior associate Alex Henderson, joined the firm this

Sycomore Asset Management has added has Francesca Mozzati to its nine-strong institutional sales team covering France and the key European markets. “Strengthening our international presence is part of Sycomore AM’s long-term strategy as we aim to become a leading player in European Sustainable Investments,” says Fidy Ramamonjisoa, Head of International Business Development at Sycomore AM. He adds that “the ever-rising demand from retail and institutional investors looking for investment solutions addressing societal and environmental challenges demonstrates the pertinence of our approach”.   Mozzati, fluent in Italian, French and English, has over 19 years’ experience in finance. After serving as Head

Cinnober has appointed Peter Lenardos as its new Group CFO. Lenardos has past experience in the financial sector as both an investment banker and ranked research analyst, with an international network in the institutional investment community and among global market infrastructure and asset management companies. The change in management takes place as current CFO Ninni Pramdell has announced her intentions to leave the company for other opportunities.   Since April this year, Lenardos has been active as a Senior Financial Advisor to Cinnober, and previously held the position as a Managing Director in the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) London

Martin Currie has appointed Julian Ide as its Head of Distribution and Strategy. Ide will have responsibility for further broadening and building Martin Currie’s global distribution capability across geographies and solutions.   Ide joins Martin Currie’s six-strong Executive team based in Edinburgh, and will work collaboratively with them to drive the company’s distribution ambitions.   This key strategic hire is the fourth for the business since the turn of the year and follows the appointment of Zehrid Osmani, who joined in May from BlackRock, as Head of the Global Long Term Unconstrained Team.   Ide brings over 25 years’ experience

UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired three associates to join its business development team – Michelle Benner, Ana Burke and Jose Rincon who all join as vice presidents, business development. The trio will focus on new business development for UMBFS’ array of services for the asset management industry which include fund accounting, administration, tax, investor services, transfer agency, custody and distribution.     In addition, UMBFS has promoted Chanté Schultz to assistant vice president, business development. In her role, she will support the new business development efforts of the national sales team.   “We are committed to expanding our registered fund and alternative investment

Saxo Bank, a Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, has appointed Eric Krueger (pictured), to a newly established position as Global Head of Client Services, effective from 2 July 2018.  He will report directly to Damian Bunce, CCO of Saxo Bank A/S.   Krueger will play a lead role in managing and developing Saxo Bank’s client relationships and the infrastructure serving those clients. He assumes the overall responsibility to lead Saxo Bank’s global client services organisation to further strengthen Saxo Bank’s renowned client service.    Krueger joins Saxo Bank with 20 years of experience in the financial industry

Financial services and regulatory partner Arun Srivastava is to join the London office of law firm Paul Hastings from Baker McKenzie, where he is head of the Financial Services Regulatory Group. Srivastava will lead Paul Hastings’ London regulatory and fintech and payments practice.   “Arun is one of the leading financial regulatory lawyers in London and will enhance our capabilities across our finance, fintech and payments, funds and transactional practices,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings. “It is central to our growth strategy in London that we attract the finest lawyers in their specialisms, and Arun’s practice and pedigree