silkroutefinancial is the first emerging markets focused merchant banking firm dedicated exclusively to the financial services sector
Our business has three divisions: principal investments, investment banking and institutional securities. In addition to our unique sector and geographic focus, our differentiated strategy is based on a business model that combines principal investments with investment banking, a comprehensive local network of offices that covers our target geography (the entire central and eastern European and former Soviet Union region), the experience and expertise of our people and the quality of our advisory board.
Our objective is to build value for the owners of financial services businesses by investing intelligent capital in their operations and by providing them with dedicated and tailored investment banking and capital markets services. Our institutional clients will benefit from the highest quality credit and equity research on financial institutions in emerging markets and from our local transaction execution capabilities in emerging capital markets.
Our most valuable assets are our corporate and institutional client relationships and our people. We pride ourselves on taking a long term approach to client relationships, which we believe deliver superior returns to our clients and to our business. This long term perspective derives from the principal investments business, which by its nature has a longer term horizon than that seen within purely transaction-oriented investment banking businesses. Our culture rewards teamwork and quality of advice over and above short term profitability and our approach to remuneration ensures that our management and staff think and act as shareholders and not purely as employees.
Our board of directors and senior management have extensive experience of investing in and advising financial institutions in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The diversity and experience of our staff enable us to offer the most up-to-date investing, financing and advisory services to our clients.
Our advisory board brings together a distinguished group of entrepreneurs and executives from across our target geographies. Our advisory board members have already made a significant contribution to our business in the very short period of time since our establishment in July 2007.
Our local operations bring together an in-depth understanding of the fast developing financial services industry in our target geography and extensive transaction experience gained in the leading investing, professional services, investment banking and institutional securities firms globally.
