Investment banking: Dresdner downplays senior staff departures

Dresdner Kleinwort has become a victim of its own success in central and eastern Europe, says a source at the bank explaining why the firm has been hit by a series of departures in recent months.

Dresdner Kleinwort has become a victim of its own success in central and eastern Europe, says a source at the bank explaining why the firm has been hit by a series of departures in recent months.

“We’ve been very successful and other people want a piece of the pie,” says the source.

In June, the bank lost Petri Kivinen, head of debt capital markets, who spent most of his career at Dresdner as head of debt origination for EEMEA, to Russian firm Renaissance Capital.

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