OREANDA-NEWS. Renaissance Capital, the leading emerging markets investment bank, has hired Moscow-based domestic sales and traders, to solidify the Firm’s number-one position in Russian equities and boost its Equity Products Group (EPG) and Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) departments.

Dmitry Ryzhkov has joined EPG as Vice President, Russia and CIS Equity Sales Trader. Previously, Ryzhkov was sales trader for international clients at Alfa Bank, and from 2006-2008, worked as equity sales trader at Unicredit Aton.

Yury Nefedov has also joined Renaissance Capital in Moscow as Associate, FICC trader. Prior to Renaissance Capital, Nefedov worked as a fixed income desk analyst at Aton and Bank of Moscow.

In December 2012, Anton Zavialov was appointed as Head of Renaissance Capital’s FICC business, and Evgueni Konovalenko as the Firm’s Head of Russia and CIS Equities, managing Renaissance’s equity activities across these markets and helping to enhance cross-regional coordination.