Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Aldermore has added two new senior appointments to it’s Asset Finance team. Patrick Jelly joins the Bank as Commercial Director for Asset Finance. Stewart Good joins as Head of Manufacturer and Dealer Services reporting into Jelly. Jelly joins from Pitney Bowes Global Financial Services where he worked for 15 years, latterly as Group Managing Director, Global…
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The Association of Alternative Business Finance (AABF) has launched with the major ambition of championing and promoting the best standards of industry practice. The seven founding members, Capify UK, Catalyst Finance, Credit4, Fleximize, Liberis, The Just Loans Group and YesGrowth have clearly defined four operating principles that members will be required to adhere to: Transparency…
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Winding up Petitions have been issued and advertised in the London Gazette for the following companies: ADVANCED WATER AND WASTE LTD AGENCY MOBILE (LONDON) LTD ALBUMCARDS LTD APEX STRUCTURES LTD APPLE SERVICES LTD ARMS SECURITY LTD ART REVIEW LTD ASTRO DEVELOPMENTS LTD BARCAM FACADES LTD BENTON PLANT LTD BRIGHTFIRE CONSTRUCTION GROUP LTD BRITANNIA SECURITY & MAINTENANCE…
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Aman Sehgal has joined Keystone Law from Muckle. Sehgal has more than ten years of experience working on high-profile corporate and personal insolvency cases such as multimillion-pound bankruptcies and fraud investigations. He joined Muckle from Bond Dickinson last year and was tasked with building up the contentious work of the firm’s insolvency practice. However, he…
Read moreEquifax has been appointed by new P2P lending platform Flender to support the underwriting of loans for UK SMEs. Equifax will supply real-time consumer and commercial data so that the underwriting process can be automated and optimised. The data insight, provided via the Equifax Business Insights solution, will give a holistic view of SME loan…
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SME working capital solutions specialist Scottish Pacific Business Finance UK has announced a senior appointment. Rob Kelly has been appointed as senior business development manager at Scottish Pacific Business Finance UK, with the key responsibility to head up sales and develop new business through Scottish Pacific’s new central London office. Scottish Pacific head of international…
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Metro Bank has launched a specialist Large Commercial Banking team focussed on supporting trading businesses, and staffed by a team of industry experts. Andy Veares, Director of Large Commercial Banking, will lead the new department and is joined by Paul Robinson and Simon Vallance, previously of Santander UK; and Mark Byrne and Andrew Cremin formally…
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Advanced Collection Systems (ACS) has appointed Robert Anthony as Business Development Manager. Lisa Phillips, Managing Director of ACS, commented, “We have exciting plans for the next 3 years and partnership with Robert will help develop these. Robert will work with ACS as business development manager responsible for leading the growth of our consumer CCA regulated…
Read moreLeonard Curtis Business Solutions Group (LCBSG) has opened its first Scottish office in Glasgow. The Group’s new Glasgow office is headed up by Stuart Robb who joined LCBSG from a Big Four practice in Scotland where he gained a wealth of experience of the Scottish insolvency market. Stuart has already been joined by a number…
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Azher Quyoom has joined Andrew Jackson as Restructuring and Turnaround Partner. Quyoom joins Bond Dickinson. Mark Pearson-Kendall, managing partner of Andrew Jackson,: “We’ve had an exciting start to the year, with some big developments over the last two months that add real strength and depth to our restructuring and insolvency offering. The valuable expertise Azher…
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Anglia UK, is celebrating two decades of solid growth by employing new staff. Anglia was set up by Managing Director Mark Scotney in 1997 as a small firm specialising in vehicle repossessions for the car finance industry. Since that time it has grown steadily to the point that it now employs 85 people with an annual…
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Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has appointed Nick Price as CFO. Before joining IGF, Price held the Interim CFO position at OakNorth, following a six year career at Close Brothers where he was Finance Director for the Commercial Division; previous employment includes KPMG, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. John Onslow, Chief Executive Officer of IGF said…
Read moreShawbrook Bank has announced the appointment of Neil Jones as Head of Asset Based Lending within its business finance division. Jones said “Shawbrook is well known for its quality of products and services in the asset-based lending community, and has built a solid reputation in structuring and managing new and existing transactions. The range of…
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