Barclays Hires Two Private Bankers Dedicated To Russia From Wealth Rival

Max Skjönsberg

12 June 2012

The wealth and investment management division of Barclays has made two Russia-focused hires who previously worked for Morgan Stanley.

Pavel Skachkov joins as a private banker and director based in London. He will focus on the Russian market and report to Henry Fischel-Bock, head of wealth management for Central and Eastern Europe.

Anton Moiseev joins the bank’s Russia team as an assistant vice president and private banker. He will also be based in London and report to Skachkov.

Skachkov joins from the private wealth management arm of Morgan Stanley, where he led the firm’s Russian coverage in London. During his six-year stint at Morgan Stanley, he held other Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States coverage roles in private wealth management and institutional equity sales. Before that, he was at UBS Securities in New York and Moscow covering Russian institutional stocks.

Moiseev worked as an analyst for Morgan Stanley for three years. Earlier in his career, he worked for two insurance companies in Moscow.

Fischel-Bock described in a statement Russia as a key target market for Barclays in the wealth management space on the back of the recent growth of wealth in the country.

Meanwhile, the UK bank bolstered its capabilities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa segment last week with two appointments for the Lower Gulf region. Chris Cocker and Nicholas Koutsoukos both joined as directors.