US-based bcp Securities LLC plans to open a brokerage office in Kyiv early next year,

US-based bcp Securities LLC plans to open a brokerage office in Kyiv early next year, adding to its global network that currently includes Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Spain and the United States. Based in Greenwich, Conn., bcp specializes in sales and trading of emerging market bonds. Randall Pike, president and co-founder of the 29-year-old firm, visited Kyiv last week and told the Morning News: “Definitely, attitudes are changing in Ukraine and it feels positive. bcp Securities has been providing sales and trading and research coverage to Ukraine for many years…[the new office] will be principally focused on creating debt capital markets deals, but we will opportunistically will look at Ukrainian markets. It would be great to see a strong local capital market.”