Macro

Newsworthy Times for Russia’s Private Banks

While most investors and the Bank of Russia expected to focus much of their attention for the remainder of 2017 on an impressive rebound in the country’s economic prospects, a series of challenges at some of Russia’s lenders – small, medium and large – have forced the world’s gaze onto the cracks emerging underneath its financial system.

By Richard Segal, Senior Emerging Markets Credit Analyst, Manulife Asset Management

Sept 29, 2017 // 2:58PM

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Richard Segal is a senior investment analyst at Manulife Asset Management, working with its Emerging Markets Debt team. He focuses geographically on credits in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior, Richard spent four years at Jefferies International in London. He has a degree in economics from MIT, having joined Manulife in 2015, and has spent most of his career analysing emerging markets, having earlier built sovereign risk and term structure models.

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