Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Property lender, Together has announced it has promoted experienced corporate finance expert Chris Baguley to a new role driving future growth for the specialist lender. Baguley has now taken up the position of Group Channel Development Director, a new role to provide strategic support and to launch new initiatives, aimed at further building the business’s…
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Brendan Clarkson has joined PKF Littlejohn as a Director in the firm’s Advisory team Clarkson has more than 25 years of experience in corporate lending and insolvency, working with businesses of all sizes, lenders, creditors and government bodies. Clarkson will work across PKF’s London, Leeds and Manchester offices. His role will involve providing debt advice…
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Specialist lender Together has bolstered its executive team by appointing experienced financial services leader John Barker as the Group’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). In his new role as Group COO at Together, Barker will take responsibility for operations across the Cheadle-based business, which provides personal and commercial secured finance and has a loan book of…
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StepChange Debt Charity has announced the appointment of Liz Harding, Mike Ashley and Sue Acton as Trustees, who will join its board on 1st July. StepChange conducted a comprehensive and extensive search process to find new expertise to support the future direction and strategy of the charity. In particular, the charity sought lived experience of…
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Tipton & Coseley Building Society have announced that Adam Evetts will become the mutual’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) early next year. The Building Society has announced that Richard Newton will be stepping down as its Chief Executive Officer, after 10 years in the role and after 32 years total service to the Society. He…
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The British Business Bank has appointed Chantal Geall as its new Chief Risk Officer, effective from September 2023. Geall joins the British Business Bank from Lumon Pay, a private equity-backed firm that provides payment services and foreign exchange to private individuals, small businesses and institutions. As part of her role, Geall built their risk function…
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Debt purchase, collections and litigation specialist, Perch Group has announced the appointment of Rob Oxley as Origination Director and Bronia O’Regan as Lead Implementation Manager. Oxley brings 13 years’ experience in senior client facing roles within the credit risk and collections industry to Perch Group. Four of those years were spent at TransUnion and six…
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Nicky Fisher, Partner at Herron Fisher, has been appointed President of R3, the insolvency and restructuring trade body. Fisher will work with R3’s CEO and senior management team to help shape and deliver R3’s strategy for the next 12 months, as well as supporting its day-to-day operations. Fisher takes on the role amid an extremely…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it. has appointed Therese Chambers and Steve Smart as joint Executive Directors of Enforcement and Market Oversight. The expansion of the FCA’s enforcement and market oversight leadership team, following Mark Steward’s departure. The FCA say that the appointments will support the FCA’s ongoing transformation to become a more…
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The Money Advice Trust, the charity that runs National Debtline and Business Debtline, has announced Christine Farnish CBE as its Chair of Trustees – a role she will take up in July this year. As a former Managing Director for Public Policy at Barclays and Consumer Affairs Director at the Financial Services Authority, Farnish brings…
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Operational transformation and business processing specialist Target Group has announced that Katherine Bowen has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Bowen, who joined the firm almost 5 years ago, has risen through the ranks during her time at Target Group. She joined as a Finance Business Partner and has since progressed to the top…
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Phillips & Cohen Associates, (PCA), a specialist in deceased account care servicing and technology solutions, has announced that Saima Hassan has joined as the UK Director of Operations for The Estate Registry UK (TER). Launched in 2021, TER currently provides three innovative solutions, LegacyNOW, NotifyNOW and InheritNOW offering digital, deceased servicing solutions in areas of…
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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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