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Atanas Bostandjiev, Chief executive, UK and international (VTB Capital) Age: 37

Bulgarian Bostandjiev has been racking up air miles over the past 12 months, with flights back to the UK on weekends to spend time with his family interspersed with business trips to Asia and the US, as VTB Capital's reach grows wider.
A former co-head of rates and foreign exchange sales in Europe at Goldman Sachs, he moved to VTB Capital, the investment banking arm of Russian state-owned VTB Bank, in May last year. Since then, the bank has signed strategic partnerships in Brazil, the US and China, and opened offices in New York and Sofia, Bulgaria.
The opening of the Sofia office in March this year is particularly meaningful for Bostandjiev, who sponsors a sailing club in his home country and is involved with the charity Chance for the Children of Bulgaria. 
Last month, the bank took a controlling stake in Bulgarian telecoms company Vivacom through a complex restructuring transaction valued at $883m.

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Financial News published the second annual FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars in investment banking – our editorial pick of the bright young things in the industry – on Monday December 3, 2012. Here is a selection of some of the winners

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FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Investment Banking

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