KBW Hires Sarkar to Its Insurance Investment Banking Group in New York

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. (KBW), a full-service, boutique investment bank and broker-dealer that specializes in the financial services sector and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp., has hired Rajib Sarkar as managing director in its Insurance Investment Banking Group, based in New York.

He is responsible for advising clients across several insurance sub-sectors, including distribution, claims, benefits administration and software.

Sarkar comes to KBW from Evercore, where he was a managing director and provided a range of advisory and capital raising services to clients in the insurance industry. Prior to that, he spent six years in the Financial Institutions Group at JP Morgan, focusing on the insurance industry.

Sarkar began his career as a software engineer, with stints at Intel and Lucent Technologies.

KBW LLC, a Stifel company, operates in the U.S. and Europe through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, also trading as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe.

Source: Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc.