VTB Capital, re-branded and re-staffed, is on a mission to entice Asian investors into Russia's volatile capital markets. Last week, Herbert Moos, ex-CFO of Lehman Brothers' Asia-Pacific ex-Japan business and now chief executive of VTB Capital in London, was on a marketing trip in Hong Kong, attempting to leverage the bank's well-established, albeit small, Singapore office in order to attract cash to Russia's financial assets.
Moos was joined by a Deutsche Bank alumni, Alexey Yakovitsky, chief executive and managing director of CISC VTB Capital in Moscow. Their aim is to facilitate Asian capital flows into Russia, and hope to do so by helping Russian companies achieve dual stock exchange listings in Hong Kong and...