Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
The Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA) has announced that Liz Bingham OBE has agreed to join the Association’s team to assist Council and support the CEO, management team and staff. Bingham’s role will be in part ambassadorial, and in part focused on helping the IPA with its own strategic review and implementation of its IIP standards. Bingham’smost…
Read moreFerguson Litigation Funding (FLF) has announced that is has hired business development and client care specialist Paul Cooklin, joining from litigation funder Manolete Partners, where he was chief operating officer. Cooklin has worked in the legal profession since 1984 and has extensive knowledge of the domestic and international commercial and business law sector. Cooklin joins from litigation…
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The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has today announced its new executive committee for the upcoming year. The new board will take effect as of the 1st September 2017. The board will continue to comprise seven directors who will act as a guiding influence, while providing direction and decision making to the Association. Benson Hersch,…
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ABN AMRO Commercial Finance (ACF) has appointed Andrew Johnston as UK Head of Sales SME. Johnston will lead a team of business development managers located across England and Wales focused on supporting SMEs with funding requirements up to £10m. With over 26 years’ experience in financial services, Andrew joins ACF from the Royal Bank of…
Read moreSiemens Financial Services (SFS) has appointed Julian Hobbs as Chief Executive Officer of the Commercial Finance division. Hobbs joined the SFS Commercial Finance business in December 2010, following previous sales and risk roles in the asset and receivables financing industries, more latterly as Managing Director of Deutsche Leasing’s operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.…
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Business Peer to Peer lender ArchOver has appointed Nick Jones as Regional Director. He will be responsible for growing the business’s network of borrowers across the Thames Valley and Chiltern areas as part of ArchOver’s aim to lend more than £60 million by the end of the year. Jones brings nearly 40 years’ experience in banking…
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The Insolvency Service has announced it has appointed three new non-executive directors. Richard Oirschot, Mary Chapman and William Trower QC have joined the Board which is responsible for the strategic leadership of the agency. Richard Oirschot is an experienced board director with a background in corporate recovery. He is a member of the Institute for…
Read moreFormer Chief Bankruptcy Registrar, Stephen Baister, will join Moon Beever solicitors in November. Baister is a highly-respected figure in the insolvency industry. A former solicitor and insolvency practitioner, he practised as a litigator specialising in insolvency and financial litigation, much of it for German clients. He was appointed as a Bankruptcy Registrar of the High Court in…
Read moreEquita has announced that it has appointed Bev Osborne to Equita in a new position as Senior Client Services Manager. Osborne has held leadership roles in a Utility, Capital One and Nottingham City Council (latterly Nottingham Revenues & Benefits Ltd) as the Business Manager for Revenues. Osborne has a track record of consistently delivering against and…
Read moreSmith Cooper has announced the appointment of Andrew Stevens as an Insolvency Director. Stevens’s career, spanning 29 years, is built on advising distressed and underperforming owner managed businesses in the SME market and for the last 15 months, he has been involved in his own boutique Insolvency Practice. In his new role at Smith Cooper, Andrew…
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TSB has announced the appointment, subject to regulatory approval, of Richard Davies as Commercial Banking Director – a newly created role within TSB’s Executive Team to spearhead the Bank’s ramp up in business banking. Richard will join TSB at the end of 2017. TSB’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Pester, said “Nearly four years since launch, TSB…
Read moreCommercial debt collection agency, Hilton-Baird Collection Services has appointed Receivables management expert Victoria Herd as a Director. A Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM), Herd will be using her extensive expertise to help the company’s corporate clients to improve their order-to-collections process, policies and systems in order to boost…
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Aldermore has announced the appointment of Richard Baxter as Head of Risk for Invoice Finance, a key strategic role within the Bank’s Business Finance team. Baxter will be based in Aldermore’s Manchester office and report directly to Clive Gould, Risk Director for Invoice Finance. He will be responsible for risk management and oversight of the Invoice…
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