Lloyds Bank has bolstered its asset-based lending offering to mid-market South West firms with the appointment of Kelly Henney as director, business development. Kelly, pictured, joins the bank’s global transaction banking division after 16 years at RBS, where she originated and completed new business opportunities for ambitious small and medium-sized firms. She will be...
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West of England chartered accountancy firm Monahans has strengthened its team in Wiltshire with three recent appointments. Sophie Evans has joined its Swindon office as insolvency administrator while client portfolio manager Katherine Richards and tax technician David Wright are now working at the firm’s Trowbridge office with private and corporate clients. Sophie, pictured, who...
Swindon-based building society Nationwide has signed an exclusive five-year partnership deal with RSA Insurance to underwrite all of its home insurance products. Under the agreement, which takes effect from spring 2017, RSA will replace Direct Line Group. RSA said the deal would cement its position as the market leader in home insurance and specifically...
Alliance Pharma, the Chippenham-based speciality pharmaceutical firm, has completed the £132.2m acquisition of rival Sinclair IS Pharma’s range of skincare products – a move that effectively doubles the size of the business. Exports of the 27 products will widen Alliance’s global reach from 30 countries to 85. Alliance’s 85 staff in Chippenham will grow...
The annual Swindon Sports Quiz, organised by chartered accountants Monahans, has raised £1,550 for Prospect Hospice. Some 41 teams from businesses enjoyed a fiercely fought battle, with Foregone Conclusion, a team from Swindon-based tech giant Intel, lifting the trophy at the end of the evening. The quiz, which has been running for over 20...
Graduate Oliver Dawson has joined the Swindon office of accountancy firm Haines Watts as an audit and accounts trainee. The 22-year-old from Purton is a former student of Bradon Forest School and recently achieved a first-class honours degree in Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University. Oliver, pictured, said: “I chose Haines Watts Swindon as...
West of England chartered accountancy firm Monahans has been named as the third best in the country for the service it provides to its charity clients. The firm, which has offices in Swindon and Chippenham, was also placed at number 20 in the annual league table of accountants operating in the UK charity sector...
Accountancy firm EY plans to almost double the size of its South West & Wales financial services practice next year as it targets the key sector for further expansion. The regional financial services team has already grown by nearly 70% over the past year and now employs 80 people at its Bristol base. That...
National accountancy firm RSM has appointed tax partner Elsa Littlewood to its Swindon office to help grow its private client offering. Elsa, who joins from regional firm Monahans’ Swindon office, specialises in private client tax, advising owner-managed businesses, wealthy families and rural businesses, particularly in the agricultural and international sectors. She will work closely...
