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In Focus Appointments & Updates
SmartSearch has appointed Collette Allen as chief operating offi cer. Her career at SmartSearch is an inspiring story of success and rapid promotion and a further example of the company’s on-going commitment to gender equality and diversity.
She joined the company in 2013 as a senior support specialist and, within two years, earned a position as head of client services. Just fi ve years later, she was appointed to the SmartSearch board as client services director. Managing director of SmartSearch, Martin Cheek
we have seen for the past few years and continue paving the way for businesses to run more effi ciently – ultimately, freeing them from tedious and costly tasks.”
Collette Allen
congratulated Collette on her appointment: “Collette has shown incredible leadership and innovation in her time at SmartSearch. She’s been crucial in the development of our outstanding Client Services team which has managed to achieve exceptional client retention. “I have no doubt that she will go from strength-to-strength and continue to drive
innovations that will keep SmartSearch as the leading anti-money laundering fi rm.”
In her new role, she will oversee SmartSearch’s operations and procedures, and will be responsible for driving sustainable business growth, while guaranteeing a high-quality customer experience. She will also manage a diverse range of business operations, ensuring SmartSearch maintains its position as a market leader in digital compliance.
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circumstances’ and award-winning Vulnerability Academy, in
partnership with UK Finance. For Wiseradviser, the Assured Mark has been awarded to the service’s debt advice induction training, made up of its triage debt advice and specialist debt advice courses. Lyndsey Humphries, head of training and consultancy at the Money Advice Trust, said: “I am delighted to see a range of our training programmes achieve the City & Guilds Assured Quality Mark, which refl ects of the quality of the design and assessments of our training. Achieving this training standard is recognition of the role our training plays in supporting the continuous professional development of staff in both the creditor and advice sectors.”
Yooz has announced that former COO and CIO Laurent Charpentier has been appointed global CEO of Yooz, eff ective immediately. The strategic appointment accompanies fi ve additional executive moves as Yooz has seen unparalleled international growth over the past three years, and each new role will uniquely serve to scale the Yooz company, technology, customer base, global reach, and footprint in the industry. He said: “Yooz has been an incredible entrepreneurial success story and I am
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honored to be the next leader in this shared history, where I can apply my experiences and love for our company as it continues to grow into an unstoppable international organization. “As CEO, my responsibilities include driving the global vision and strategy in terms of product, market and geographical expansion, as well as continuing acceleration of our Yooz Rising and YoozPay platforms. I look forward to leveraging the momentum
With BMW understood to be the latest manufacturer set to embrace an agency model approach to new vehicle distribution, it is, as MotoNovo Finance’s commercial director Debbie McKay says, a development that has implications for all parts of vehicle retailing, including the used vehicle and fi nancing sectors: “We have seen the impact of new vehicle shortages over the last two years, with franchised dealers pivoting to increase their focus upon used vehicle sales. I expect the advent of agency models will sustain this focus. The impact could be more signifi cant than the well-publicised launch of online used car retailing.”
in3, a Dutch ‘Buy-Now-Pay-Later’ (BNPL) fi ntech has today announced a $85.3m Series B funding round from the British VC Force over Mass, U.S. institutional asset manager Waterfall Asset Management LLC and Dutch investor Finch Capital. “Consumers do not always have the
fi nancial means to buy what they need at that moment. By giving more fl exibility with BNPL, the conversion and average order value can be increased,” said Ken Serdons, chief commercial offi cer of Mollie. “We are excited to partner with in3 to off er an
Members of the training academies of Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), suppliers of valuation panel management services, and SDL Surveying, the national residential surveying and valuations fi rm, are to go head-to- head in a Route 66 Charity Challenge in aid of LionHeart, the independent charity for RICS professionals. Cutting right across the heart of the USA, Route 66 is a 2,400-mile highway, starting in Chicago and fi nishing in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. It has mythical status and is one of the most famous roads in the US, celebrated in song, fi lm and television, after it served as a route for those looking to migrate to the west of the country. Sarah Chalmers-Stevens, head of professional development at CSS, said: “We
Sarah Chalmer-Stevens
recognise the importance of bringing new talent into the surveying industry and have successfully trained over 200 individuals over the last 10 years, who are now AssocRICS qualifi ed and enjoying fulfi lling roles as residential surveyors. “This initiative between our two training academies is obviously a bit of fun, but also highlights the importance we both place on our academies, plus supports a charity close to our hearts, LionHeart.”
www.CCRMagazine.com May 2022
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