Commerzbank is continuing to build its European equity research team with the hiring of Andrew Chambers as an engineering analyst, Mark Robinson as a utilities analyst and Gilad Alper as a technology analyst, mainly focusing on companies in emerging Europe. Chambers was previously at SG Securities where he had been head of European industrials research, while Robinson was assistant director in the utilities team at ABN Amro. Alper was with Oscar Gruss in New York as a telecom equipment analyst.