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Nottingham Building Society has appointed Dan Mundy will be appointed as its new Finance Director. Mundy will join from the Co-operative Bank where he held the position of director of finance and will succeed Ashraf Piranie who recently left the society to joined West Bromwich Building Society. Prior to joining the Co-operative Bank, Mundy has held senior roles…
Read moreWith the implementation date just over a year away, there is still a lot of conjecture surrounding the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), particularly around its appropriateness and applicability once the UK leaves the EU. One thing that is clear, however, is that now is the time for any firm handling personal data to…
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Charles Counsell is to be the new Chief Executive of the Money Advice Service. The appointment was made by the Financial Conduct Authority and approved by HM Treasury. Counsell is currently Executive Director and Board Member at The Pensions Regulator where he has played a key role in the successful introduction of automatic enrolment into…
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MortgageGym.com has announced the appointment of Jeremy Moll as Chief Commercial Officer. Moll has over 28 years of experience in the UK mortgage and insurance industries. He was part of the senior team that established CompareTheMarket as the leading price comparison brand in the UK, during which time he grew revenues significantly. Jeremy was responsible for…
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Thames Water has announced two new members have joined it’s Executive Team. Sarah McMath has been appointed Managing Director of Wholesale Water at Thames Water, in place of Bob Collington who is retiring from the business. Dr McMath joined Thames Water’s research and development team in 1994, and has since undertaken a wide variety of…
Read moreSkipton Building Society has announced the sale of its Amber Homeloans Limited and North Yorkshire Limited mortgage portfolio to an affiliate of a fund managed by a global investment management firm. The portfolio is estimated be worth £220 million and consists of 1,600 UK mortgages The transaction is due to complete by the end of Apri.…
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Dong Energy have appointed Matthew Wright as it’s new Chair. Dong Energy’s current UK Country Chairman Brent Cheshire will retire in June after 13 years with the company. Brent Cheshire was Dong Energy’s first UK employee in 2004 and under his leadership, the business has expanded rapidly with over 850 people now working in the UK.…
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Lowell GFKL Group, a European leader in credit management services, recorded strong results for its full year ended 31 December 2016, with a 20% increase in Group Cash EBITDA to £254m showing the continuing benefits of the combined business. Publishing the results today it has also announced that, following the successful merger of the Lowell Group…
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The Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) has announced that it has appointed Dr Mike Keil as its new Head of Policy and Research. Dr Keil, who is currently Business Leader for Asset Strategy at Severn Trent Water, will join the water watchdog on 8 May, replacing Deryck Hall who is retiring. In 2007 he joined water…
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Quint Group has appointed Nicola Richardson as it’s new CRM Manager to help devise and drive the CRM strategy for the brand and to continue the site’s growth. Richardson brings ten years of CRM experience into her new role, having previously worked at price comparison site heavyweight moneysupermarket.com where she was involved in the delivery and optimisation…
Read moreMorses Club has announced the launch of Dot Dot Loans, its first online installment loans product. The launch follows the purchase of Shelby Finance earlier in the year The launch of this new online instalment product, Dot Dot Loans, is the next step in the Company’s strategy of developing digital products to complement its home…
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Equifax, has launched a bespoke Document Verifier solution to provide faster identity authentication for financial product applications using facial recognition. The solution can verify whether an applicant is genuine in a matter of seconds by comparing a live image of the applicant with a photograph of their passport or driving licence, both taken on a…
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Furness Building Society has announced the appointment of Euan Ballantyne in a new role as Head of Products. Ballantyne joins the Furness as a financial services business leader with experience and achievements across a range of Retail and Business banking sectors. Most recently he was Head of Mortgage Intermediaries programme for Tesco Bank, leading their development…
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