Who We Are

Mission
Values
Social Responsibility

Mission

To provide 360° vision on financial markets

As a global independent player with a strong connection to local markets, we work with our client businesses to help them expand in the most efficient way, to discover new opportunities and to achieve their goals over the long term. We focus on being a safe, innovative and caring partner at every point on a client’s route to success, starting with the very first steps of the journey

Values

Our emphasis is on the provision of a complete range of brokerage and investment services.

Sense — we are committed to what we do and act in a transparent and fair way in the market

Opportunity — our aim is to generate opportunities for business growth for our clients, markets and partners

Vision — we operate with a clear and focused vision and a conscious long-term strategy

Action — we strongly believe that execution is key, therefore we pay careful attention to our delivery and performance quality

Social Responsibility

We believe we can make a difference

Outside of financial markets we also are passionate about helping to provide a better future for our society. In doing so we support the following charities, which are devoted to helping children in need

Arifmetika Dobra

Established in 2014, the charity’s aim is to help orphans find families and reduce the number of children living in orphanages

Alternatives 4 Children

Alternatives 4 Children (A4C) is an independent charitable foundation established in 2011 in the Netherlands with the aim to involve professionals from the (Alternative) Financial industry. Originally founded by professionals from the Dutch Alternatives Industry, A4C are now open to all countries and people from the financial industry. It is launching a London Chapter in June, 2019.

Board of Directors

Howard Snell

Non-Executive Director

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Howard Snell is responsible for Sova Capital’s UK local business strategy, as well as corporate and investor relations. Prior to joining Sova Capital, Howard was CEO of Troika Dialog’s UK subsidiary, where he was responsible for launching local and European operations. Howard previously held the position of co-head of the London Emerging Markets desk at UBS, where he was in charge of Debt Capital Markets Origination for Russia and CIS countries, working on a number of Russian bi-lateral and debt restructuring transactions.

Sergey Sukhanov

Chief Executive Officer

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Sergey Sukhanov joined Sova Capital Limited in 2013 to lead the Equity Trading department. He was subsequently appointed to the role of Head of Equity in March 2014. Prior to joining the company, Sergey’s earlier career involved managing the Equity Trading desk at Promstroybank, before moving to Bank Zenit, where he worked from 2000 to 2005 leading the Equity Trading department. From 2005, he worked at Troika Dialog for seven years as a senior trader and partner; thereafter moving to Sova Capital Limited. In 2016 Sergey was appointed Chief Business Officer and a director of the company. From 2017, he became the Chief Executive Officer with overall responsibility for the operation of the company; ensuring the successful management of the business and implementing the agreed management body strategy.

Business Leader Team

Kirill Yankovskiy

Chief Business Officer

History

In February 2018, Otkritie Capital International Limited changed its name to Sova Capital Limited. In 2019, following a corporate restructuring and a change of control, Roman Avdeev became main ultimate beneficial shareholder of Sova Capital.

Sova Capital now operates in the UK as an independent broker, authorised and regulated by the FCA, with its focus on Emerging Markets. The strength and stability of its position in the market, together with the high level of expertise within the Sova Capital team, has consolidated the company’s competitive advantage and provided significant opportunities for future growth and development.

To reach its ambition of building and creating a strong international brand, in 2018 it began to expand its trade execution services to institutional investors by offering research and analysis services in the US market and in 2019 connected with Auerbach Grayson & Co who provide Sova Capital with direct access to many of its own US institutional investors.

NowNew name, new opportunities

2017Strong team and clear strategy

2014-2015Opening up new opportunities

2010-2012Setting up a base in the US

In 2007, Otkritie Capital was formed as a separate investment banking and brokerage unit, with offices in Moscow, London and New York advising corporate and institutional clients. The company set up its London base in the iconic 88 Wood Street building. The Russian market was reforming and opening up to new investors and the company’s FCA-regulated subsidiary was one of the first companies to offer direct electronic trading on the LSE and MICEX/RTS, providing a low latency connection to some of the world’s leading hedge funds and asset managers. The company quickly ascended the LSE’s broker rankings and was continuously ranked as a leading broker on all the markets of the Moscow Exchange (equities, derivatives and FX), as well as on the International Order Book segment of the LSE

Late 2000sBecoming a Russia expert with global reach

1990sBuilding the market from the ground up