JP Morgan Private Bank has appointed executive directors Darius Daubaras and Anatoly Crachilov as private bankers for its Russian team in the UK.

Based in London, Daubaras and Crachilov will report to Elena Griffin, head of JP Morgan’s Russian private banking team.

Daubaras, who has 13 years’ experience across investment banking and private equity, was latterly a director at BNP Paribas, in equity capital markets, and head of Russia, CIS and CEE. Before that, he held a number of roles at Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch, and was also a partner at Spencer House Capital Management.

Crachilov joins JP Morgan from HSBC Private Bank, where he was an investment counsellor on the Russian and Eastern European team. Prior to this, he was a director at Troika Dialog, where he managed the bank’s principal investments in the financial sector and also managed the launch of the bank’s first UCITS-compliant offerings.

In other recent appointments, earlier this month JP Morgan hired Sara Yates as global currency strategist in its foreign exchange and commodity business, based in London.