OREANDA-NEWS. Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging- and frontier-markets investment bank, has hired Rupert Preece as Director, Head of Sub-Saharan Fixed Income Trading; and Marina Ryabokon as Director, International Fixed Income Sales.

Mr. Preece will be based in London and report to Anton Zavialov, Head of Renaissance Capital's Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC) department. Prior to Renaissance, he spent two years at Nomura International and Visor Capital. Over 2007-2011, he was a director at Renaissance Capital, responsible for debt-related primary-market business, and subsequently for all credit flow trading for the Firm. Prior to this he served in Syndicate management roles at ING and WestLB.

Marina Ryabokon will be based in London and report to Igor Kotlyarchuk, Head of Sales. She joins Renaissance Capital from Liquidity Finance where she was a partner.

“We wish Rupert and Marina every success in their new roles, and believe they will improve our ability to anticipate market opportunities and provide the best investment solutions for clients on the promising Sub-Saharan African market, which is very important for us,” said Anton Zavialov. “We continue to leverage off our local experience, to the benefit of the international client base.”