Payday lender Cash Genie folds after agreeing £20m redress deal with the Financial Conduct Authority January 6, 2016 Payday lender Cash Genie has collapsed into administration, just six months after it agreed to a £20m redress package for unfair practises with Britain's financial watchdog. The administration is being handled by liquidator RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP. However, with around £1.5m of funds remaining unclaimed, RSM is working to trace customers who are yet to redress [...]
RSM, the accountancy firm formerly known as Baker Tilly, reveals growth in UK revenues of 26 per cent to £292m December 2, 2015 Accountancy firm RSM today announced a growth in UK revenues of 26 per cent to £292m for its year ended 31 March 2015. The figures also showed that the business’s risk assurance service line had grown by 86 per cent to £22m and consulting, which is the firm’s fastest growing offering, by 195 per cent [...]
HMRC plans to shut local tax offices and replace them with 13 new regional hubs November 12, 2015 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has today announced that it is planning to close 137 of its local tax offices, replacing them with 13 new regional tax offices. The regional centres, the first one of which could be launched as early as 2016 with the rest opening between 2017 and 2021, will generally be in [...]
City Moves for 12 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 11, 2015 Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Michael Bond has been appointed mid markets relationship director in the bank’s technology, media and telecommunications team in London. He previously held a similar role at Lloyds, looking after clients in the education, communities and government sector across the South East. State Street Global Advisors State Street’s asset management arm has [...]
City Moves for 09 November 2015 | Who’s switching jobs November 8, 2015 RSM The audit, tax, and consulting services firm has announced the appointments of Pelle Langli and Mark Wootton (pictured) as partners in its consulting practice. Langli joins from EC Partners. He has more than 15 years' experience in consulting, and will focus on building RSM's finance function advisory service line. Wootton joins from KM&T UK, [...]
City Moves for 27 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 26, 2015 LOMBARD ODIER Duncan MacIntyre has been appointed chief executive of the banking firm’s private client business in the UK. He joins from Coutts & Co, where he founded and was global head of its private office. MacIntyre has also worked as a senior private banker at JP Morgan, which he joined from Robert Fleming & [...]
Professional services firm Baker Tilly rebrands as RSM across all brands October 26, 2015 Professional services firm Baker Tilly will today become RSM, giving the network’s firms the same name globally. The firm, which has 730 offices in more than 110 countries, including 35 offices across the UK, is the seventh-largest network of audit, tax and consultancy firms in the world. Last year, the RSM network boosted its revenues [...]
City Moves for 29 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 28, 2015 Goodwin Procter The law firm has appointed Catriona Berman as partner in its real estate capital markets practice in London. She will join from Macfarlanes following completion of her notice period, and advises on a wide range of real estate transactions. Metro Bank John Nelson has been appointed head of invoice finance for the bank’s [...]
City Moves for 14 November 2014 | Who’s switching jobs November 13, 2014 Spencer Ogden Lord Smith of Finsbury has been appointed non-executive director at the energy recruitment consultancy. He is a former secretary of state for culture, and shadow secretary of state for the environment, and was chairman of the Environment Agency. Simmons & Simmons The law firm has announced the appointment of Paul Bugingo as a partner [...]
City Moves for 13 November 2014 | Who’s switching jobs November 12, 2014 Pinsent Masons The law firm has announced the appointment of Meriam Alrashid as an international arbitration partner in its global construction practice in London. A fluent Arabic speaker, she joins from Crowell & Moring and has particular experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Hermes Investment Management Vincent Nobel has been appointed head of [...]