Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Louisa Sedgwick has been promoted to Managing Director mortgages at Vida Homeloans. Sedgwick has been Director of Sales at Vida since its launch in 2016 and is well known in the mortgage industry, having recently become the first female chair of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. Sedgwick said: “In just three years Vida has successfully completed…
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Lantern Debt Recovery Services has achieved a ‘gold’ award from customer experience experts, Investor in Customers (IIC). This is Lantern’s third IIC assessment – with scores steadily increasing from ‘Silver’ in 2017 and 2018 to Gold this year. IIC is an independent assessment organisation that conducts rigorous benchmarking exercises. These exercises determine the quality of…
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Consumer Credit Solutions (CCS) has announced the appointment of Colin Macpherson as Business Development Manager. He has taken on account management responsibility for home improvement retailers across Scotland. Macpherson has over 40 years’ experience in consumer finance, working mainly for American-owned UK banks specialising in unsecured point-of-sale credit. More recently Macpherson has gained experience in…
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Aberdein Considine has announced that it has strengthened its Lender Services Practice Group (LSPG) with the appointment of a UK banking veteran Colin Soulsby as Client Relationship Manager. Soulsby has left his senior role with the Royal Bank of Scotland to join the firm in a newly-created relationship management role. During a four-decade career in…
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EDF Energy has announced the appointment of Philippe Commaret to Managing Director of Customers, overseeing the company’s diverse retail business in the UK. Commaret joins EDF Energy from EDF in France, where he was a Director of Sales and previously, Director General of ÉS Énergies Strasbourg, part of a majority-owned subsidiary of EDF Group, which…
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UK Finance, the trade organisation representing the banking and finance industry operating in the UK, has announced the appointment of RBS’ Lloyd Cochrane as the new chair of its Mortgages Product and Service. He will replace outgoing chair Richard Rowntree, UK Mortgages Director, Bank of Ireland UK, in January 2020. The UK Finance Mortgages Product…
Read moreBreeze Energy, a gas and electricity supplier with just under 18,000 domestic customers is ceasing to trade. Under Ofgem’s safety net, the energy supply of Breeze Energy’s customers will continue and outstanding credit balances of domestic customers will be protected. Ofgem will choose a new supplier to take on all of Breeze Energy’s customers. This…
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Arrow Global Group has announced has raised €838 million for inaugural pan-European NPL (Non-Performing Loans) fund. Arrow says raising the Fund is a major achievement in the development of the company’s fund management capabilities and is central to the Group’s strategy to accelerate towards a more capital-light model. Lee Rochford, Group Chief Executive Officer of…
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Loan management platform, Anchor has announced that it has completed its integration between payments technology provider – Acquired.com and multichannel payment specialist CashFlows. This new integration allows Anchor’s existing and future client base to have the option of adding the most advanced payment technologies to their payment and collection strategies. Providing access to new products…
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Collections specialist ACS has announced that it has revamped its utility debt collection portfolio to emphasis the broad range of services available and to package its unique approach to utility debt collection in a new flagship service Collect+. The revamped portfolio offers utility providers a simpler and wider choice of services for managing and collecting…
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Amigo has announced a number of changes to the board including the appointment of new non-executive Directors, the Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the Remuneration Committee standing down through an orderly process and the resignation of the CEO. The Richmond Group Ltd has notified the Company of its intention to exercise its…
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Business process services and software provider Target Group has announced the appointments of public sector expert Richard South who has joined as Business Development Director and Helen Adams as Bid Manager. Reporting into Chief Commercial Officer, Stuart Anderson, South will be drawing on over 20 years of client services experience, focusing primarily on public sector…
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Provident Financial has announced the appointment of Neeraj Kapur as Chief Finance Officer (CFO). Kapur will join the board and start as Chief Finance Officer on 1st April 2020. Kapur is currently Group Chief Financial Officer at Secure Trust Bank plc. He has a strong retail banking background, including consumer finance and savings products expertise.…
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