Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Specialist lender Together has announced that it is growing its team across the country, with a series of new senior appointments. Danielle Potter, Pall Thorarinsson and Jamie Grimshaw will join the company as Business Development Directors, bolstering the group’s regional teams and increasing its footprint across the UK. All three will report to Sean Williams,…
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Cambridge Building Society has announced that it has appointed Sandhya Kawar as its new Chief Risk Officer and member of the board. Kawar joined Cambridge Building Society in January this year as Lead in the Risk and Compliance department. Kawar also has a BSc from the London School Economics and an MSc from Warwick University,…
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Digital motor retailing and finance specialist, iVendi has made two new appointments. Dale Reed has been named VP Product Management. He has been working in IT for 30 years, starting as a software engineer and specialising in data aggregation and business intelligence before migrating into product management. For the last decade, he was employed by…
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A new Chair of the Court of the Bank of England has been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen. David Roberts is expected to take up his role at the Bank in Autumn 2022 and will succeed Sir Bradley Fried who served as Chair from June 2018 to June 2022. The Bank’s Court acts as…
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TransUnion has appointed Dominic Goslett as Chief Revenue Officer where he will be leading the go-to-market strategy, driving sales and overseeing client relationships. Having held senior leadership roles with TransUnion since 2018, Dominic has been responsible for defining and delivering strategies across a range of sectors, including government, gaming, e-commerce, telecommunications, debt market and utilities.…
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Freedom Finance has announced that Emma Steeley will be joining the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Steeley will lead the next stage of the company’s exciting growth ambitions following fresh investment and the completion of recent product upgrades to the award-winning digital marketplace. Emma joins from Equifax, where she spent nearly four years as…
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HM Treasury has announced the appointment of Ashley Alder as the new Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Alder is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong, a role he has held since 2011. Alder also chairs the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed six Directors as it expands its headcount to meet a growing remit. Roma Pearson has been appointed as the FCA’s Director of Consumer Finance, responsible for the supervision and policy development in the consumer lending and mortgages sectors. Roma has been at the FCA and its predecessors since…
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UK Finance has announced three new appointments to the UK Finance board. Erin Platts, Head of EMEA and President of UK Branch, Silicon Valley Bank; Ian Stuart, CEO of HSBC Bank UK and David Soanes, UK Country Head of UBS Group, have joined the Board. Joe Garner from Nationwide and Beatriz Martín Jiménez from UBS…
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Coventry Building Society has announced that it has appointed Richard Bowles as Chief Risk Officer. Bowles, who has around 20 years of experience in financial services, will join from TSB later this year, where he has been Interim Chief Risk Officer since March. Prior to that, he had been the bank’s prudential risk oversight director…
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Skipton Building Society has announced that it has appointed Stuart Haire as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Haire previously was the Group General Manager and Chief Executive of HSBC’s UK personal and private banking businesses. Haire has worked at HSBC for six years, having spent nearly a decade prior to that in senior roles at…
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Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) has announced that it has appointed Alasdair Lenman as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Robert Purdy as Interim Chief Finance Officer. Stephen White, who has been acting as Interim Chief Executive Officer, will leave YBS to take on a new role at Santander. The Society says both appointments are subject…
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Tandem Bank has announced the appointment of Paul Pester as Non-Executive Director and Chair-Designate, subject to regulatory approval. Tandem’s current Chair, Jeffrey Pritchard, informed the Board earlier in the year that he planned to retire at the end of June having led Tandem through a period of significant transformation since joining the bank in 2016. …
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