Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Blair Nimmo has been named as Global Head of Insolvency at KPMG. Nimmo has more than 30 years’ experience of corporate restructuring, including advisory and formal insolvency. Nimmo succeeds Richard Heis, who retired from the firm earlier in the year. Nimmo joined KPMG in 1991, after training with Cooper and Lybrand’s restructuring practice. In March…
Read moreAlternative lending specialist, ThinCats has announced a senior hire to cover the East Midlands region. Mark Tunley joins ThinCats as Origination Manager, East Midlands, as ThinCats gears up for its next period of growth, and after the company announced a £200m funding programme in conjunction with its parent company, ESF Capital. Tunley oins ThinCats after 32…
Read moreFRP Advisory has announced the promotion ofArvindar Singh-Sall, who is based in the firm’s Birmingham office, to partner. Singh-Sall is a licensed insolvency practitioner and qualified accountant with 25 years of experience advising and managing business and corporate restructuring. She joined the firm as a director in 2014 and has delivered a number of assignments for…
Read moreInsolvency and restructuring firm CVR Global has opened a new office in Bristol and made three appointments. Steve Ramsbottom has been appointed as Partner. Ramsbottom has more than 28 years of restructuring and insolvency experience, including spells with Moore Stephens, Deloitte and KPMG. Jess Jennings has also joined CVR Global’s Bristol office as Associate Director,…
Read moreAshley Finance have appointed Dawn Trustam as its new Sales Director. Trustram had previously worked at Funding 365 as a Business Development Manager for just under two years, where she was responsible for managing the whole of England and Wales. She has also worked as a Business Executive, supporting four external BDM’s and specialising in all aspects of…
Read moreCorporate recovery and business advisory firm, Quantuma has appointed Mark Hendrick as Director of Credit Services. Hendrick brings 24 years’ experience in this field, in a career including spells at Opus Restructuring and RSM Tenon. Quantuma managing partner Carl Jackson said: “Mark is extremely well known in the industry and brings with him a wealth…
Read moreAlternative finance provider, Reward Finance Group has appointed Gemma Wright as Commercial Director with the responsibility to prepare the business for its next stage of development. Wright previously spent more than 17 years with RBS where she became director of Invoice Finance with responsibility for leading a number of sales teams across the North. Nick Smith,…
Read moreMetro Bank has announced the appointment of Roger Fenwick as Director of Specialist Sectors for its commercial business, responsible for the expansion and development of the bank’s dedicated sector teams. Reporting directly to Mark Stokes, Managing Director Commercial Banking, Fenwick will oversee the bank’s healthcare, hospitality and leisure, insurance and financial services, and property teams.…
Read moreTwo North West insolvency advisors have joined forces to launch a new corporate restructuring and turnaround practice. Dunham Dean has been set up by Matt Dunham and John Dean, who between them have over 50 years’ experience in turnaround and finance. The firm, which has offices in Liverpool’s Brunswick Dock and Appley Bridge, near Wigan,…
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Kingston Smith’s corporate recovery and insolvency arm, Kingston Smith & Partners, has recruited Dale Hernon as Head of Client Services. Hernon joins the firm from Begbies Traynor where he led the group to second in personal insolvency appointment rankings, based on statistics recorded by The Insolvency Service. He brings with him his colleague Daniel Bodgi. Kingston…
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LendInvest has appointed Ian Boden as Sales Director. Boden joins LendInvest with over 35 years’ experience in financial services, specialising in buy-to-let and commercial mortgages. During his career, Ian has held a variety of roles from wealth management and customer relationship management to senior management positions. Most recently, Boden was head of commercial mortgages and…
Read moreAudit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed Chris Hardy as a partner in its restructuring advisory practice. Hardy joins RSM from Close Brothers Invoice Finance where he was a regional director responsible for invoice finance and asset based lending teams across London, the South East and East Anglia. Prior to that he held positions…
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Alternative business funding provider, ThinCats, has recruited an Origination Manager for Scotland. Geoff O’Brien will be the key contact for Scotland, leading all new business origination across the region. O’Brien has significant, relevant experience for the position, through his Director level roles at the likes of Santander and Clydesdale Bank, specialising in Business Development, supporting…
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