Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Debt purchaser, Lantern have announced that they have appointed a new Chief Finance Officer (CFO) Andrew Kirk alongside an additional Exec appointment of Chief Technical Officer CTO) Andy McCleod, both of whom join the Lantern team to help deliver our strategy and vision, following the retirement of Trevor Howe. Kirk is a Law graduate, a…
Read moreBusiness process outsourcing (BPO), Target Group, has announced the appointment of Aileen Wallace as an Independent Non-Executive Director and board member. As an established Board Executive, Wallace has expertise in digital business transformation across retail and commercial banking. She has more than 10 years’ experience in executive and non-executive roles, helping to leverage growth opportunities…
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Specialist lender Together has appointed Liz Blythe as a non-executive director for the group’s personal finance business. Blythe, who has more than 25 years’ financial services experience, will start her new role immediately. She will bring her broad experience of finance, governance, risk and audit to Together and joins from Skipton Building Society, where she…
Read moreClever Lending has appointed two new directors to lead the specialist distributor’s ambitious plans for growth across the mortgage and lending market. Kevin Blount is now overseeing all operational aspects of the company as Director of Technical Operations, with Michelle Neville being responsible for delivering Clever Lending’s sales strategy as Director of New Business. Blount…
Read moreCredit union network My Community Finance has gone live with an automated decisioning platform (ADP) with LendingMetrics. The adoption of ADP has allowed the London-based network to shift from a hard-coded in-house loan origination system with limited decisioning capabilities, to a fully automated customer origination solution that delivers instant credit decisioning. Neil Williams, Managing Director…
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Home collected credit (HCC) lender, Morses Club has announced its latest company results. As part of the results, the company has highlighted that it has issued £85.5 million worth of credit in the 27 weeks to 31 August 2019. The trading update said that trading conditions in our the HCC market remain in line with…
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Global information and insights provider TransUnion has announced two new executive appointments. Shail Deep joins as Chief Product Officer and Ann-Marie Orange joins as Chief Information Officer, Deep, who has over 20 years’ experience – both in the UK and globally – across retail banking and technology consulting, joins the business as chief product officer.…
Read moreChallenger credit bureau, Credit Kudos has announced that it has strengthened its team with the appointment of David Fletcher as VP of Sales. Fletcher joins Credit Kudos after 5 years at Dealflo (now OneSpan), an identity and agreement automation Fintech. Prior to this, Fletcher spent 7 years at the credit reference agency, Callcredit and has…
Read moreAuto-decisioning technology provider,LendingMetrics has announced that it has appointed Michele Pothecary as Sales Operations Coordinator. Pothecary joins from a major South Coast infrastructure company where she headed up the Customer Relations operation as Customer Experience Manager for the past 10 years. The company says Pothecary’s appointment will allow LendingMetrics’s business development team to spend more…
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Specialist consumer lender, 1st Stop Group Limited (1SG) has announced that it has increased its credit facilities with its current funding syndicate. 1SG’s main funders, Citibank, have agreed to increase its existing facility by a further £75 million to £225 million. This increase reaffirms Citibank’s support for 1SG in the near prime specialist finance sector. …
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Just Mortgages has appointed three new divisional Sales Directors. Peter Kendall, Mike Peet and Tony Richards, will be responsible for more than 30 mortgage and protection advisers across the Just Mortgages group. They will support and advise their teams, helping them to achieve their individual goals by identifying leads, increasing cross-sales and developing and reviewing…
Read moreSpecialist Motor Finance (SMF) and LendingMetrics have announced they have entered automated decisioning technology partnership. SMF is using Lending Metrics’ ADP platform, which has been developed to free lenders from the cost burden of manual loan underwriting, while giving them access to data analytics, risk-based pricing and affordability assessment via the Open Banking revolution. It…
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Motor finance car broker, CarMoney, has strengthened its executive team with the appointment Niall Cameron as General Manager of its retail team. Cameron joins CarMoney Phoenix Honda, where he has spent the last eight years. CarMoney Managing Director Alastair Grier said “We are delighted to have been able to attract someone of the calibre of…
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