An underwriting professional with more than 20 years’ industry experience has joined specialist lender Together as it expands its broker relationship team. Clare Sadler started her new role this month as the company boosts its capability to support brokers. As field underwriting specialist, she will focus on cases from Together+ members, which is an exclusive […]
ThinCats, the leading alternative lender to mid-sized SMEs, has today announced the appointment of Gary Nutley as senior director of regional business development for London. Gary comes from a role as director of structured finance at Allied Irish Bank (AIB), where he specialised in providing bespoke funding packages to support leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, acquisitions […]
Paragon’s Commercial Finance team is bolstering its support of Scottish SMEs, appointing Craig Owens as business development manager. Bringing a wealth of experience after thirteen years with Santander, Craig will be joining the well-established team at Paragon, nurturing both new and existing customer relationships and further developing Paragon’s SME proposition in the region. Commenting on […]
IR35: Permanent placements up, contractors down As the roll out of IR35 changes to the private sector draws closer, contract placements have dropped a sizeable 10.1% month-on-month, as employers shy away from contingent workers. That’s according to the latest monthly Recruitment Trends Snapshot report from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) in conjunction with […]
Local people will have the chance to learn valuable construction skills and gain new jobs on a major project to regenerate Coventry city centre, thanks to a new training hub which opened today. The £300,000 hub, funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) through its Construction Gateway programme, will offer local unemployed people a […]
ThinCats, the leading alternative lender to mid-sized SMEs, has today announced the appointment of Gareth Rumsey as head of data analytics. He comes to ThinCats with more than two decades of SME data analytics experience. Prior to joining ThinCats, Gareth spent 13 years at Experian as product director and most latterly as head of data […]
Lightfoots Solicitors has become the latest professional organisation to become an associate member of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). Established more than 150 years ago, Lightfoots Solicitors provides a full range of traditional legal services from its offices in Thame to private clients and businesses throughout Oxfordshire, Berkshire & Buckinghamshire. Penelope Chelmick, head […]
Baldwins Group, the North West-based accountancy and business advisory firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kirsty Giddins, as managing partner of its Bolton office. Kirsty was previously a Partner at Baldwins’ Preston Office. Kirsty brings a wealth of experience, having spent close to three decades at Montpelier Chartered Accountants, advising clients across a […]
LendInvest, the UK’s leading platform for property finance, has announced the appointment of former CBRE senior director and head of loan advisory, Anurag Sharma, as fund manager. Anurag has worked with LendInvest in an advisory capacity for several years whilst leading the loan advisory team at CBRE Capital Advisors, the world’s largest commercial real estate […]
Business advisory firm Quantuma has completed a merger with Scotland’s leading independent insolvency provider WRI Associates (WRI). The acquisition will see Quantuma take on WRI’s office in Glasgow, headed by partner, Ian Wright, and its 8 members of staff. The firm will operate under the Quantuma brand. WRI is an insolvency and restructuring practice, providing […]
