Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
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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Software specialist Rimilia has appointed Karl Campbell, who joins as Chairman. In addition to the appointment the company has raised $25m in growth funding. The round was co-led by Kennet Partners and Eight Roads Ventures. Rimilia has clients across Europe and the US including Avis, Hitachi, Santander and Travis Perkins and currently employs over 70 people at…
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and WalesChartered Accountants in England and Wales’ (ICAEW has appointed Tyrone Courtman as Chair of its insolvency and restructuring special interest group. Courtman is a Partner at PKF Cooper Parry has more than 25 years’ experience, leads PKF Cooper Parry’s business restructuring, recovery and insolvency services team across the…
Read moreBusiness finance provider, Henry Howard Finance, has appointed a new regional director for the South West to its Asset Finance division. With a career in finance spanning more than three decades, including 10 years as a director of asset finance at Lombard, Richard Arnold, joins the firm as South West regional director. Mark Crook, Group CEO…
Read moreThe NACFB has announced the appointment of Graham Toy as Chief Executive Officer. Toy joins the organisation as a permanent replacement for interim CEO, Rob Lankey, who left the Association recently at the end of his interim posting. Paul Goodman, Chairman of the NACFB said “Graham joins us at an important time for the NACFB.…
Read moreJohn Brooks has joined alternative lender Thincats as Business Origination Manager. Brooks joins the company from Natwest and having spent 42 years working with UK businesses – 30 years of which he spent working within different areas of the SME market. The past 12 years have seen John specialising in the professional services sector in…
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Credit Insurer Euler Hermes has strengthened its UK and Ireland management team with the appointment of Melissa Dowle as Director of Customer Strategy and Mike de Bresser as Commercial Director. The Director of Customer Strategy is a newly-created role and Dowle will manage Euler Hermes’ response to the changing needs of clients and brokers. De…
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