Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with its largest office in Bristol, has appointed Frances Teague as its new director of finance. Frances, a chartered accountant, joins from retail group Debenhams, where she was senior finance manager. In an extensive career she has worked in a number of accountancy...
Former head of technology at Deutsche Bank Labs, Charles Radclyffe, has relinquished his role at the global financial institution to lead NetKernel, an innovative fintech firm disrupting the financial services world from its HQ in Bristol. Charles’s role at Deutsche Bank included the research and evaluation of emerging...
The University of Bristol has sold all its shares in fossil fuel businesses after calling in ethical investment experts based in the city. The university’s landmark decision to review its holdings in the most carbon-intensive sectors came after a campaign by the university’s Fossil Free Society, which praised the...
Lockton, the world’s largest privately-owned insurance broker, has strengthened its professional services expertise with the appointment of James Page to its team in Bristol as senior vice-president. James, pictured, comes with 15 years of specialist professional indemnity insurance experience, having most recently held the role of director at Bristol-based...
A cross-firm team at Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon has advised HSBC Bank and Bank Leumi (UK) on a major refinancing of retirement village developer Audley Group. The £125m revolving credit facility to Audley Group to refinances its existing facilities with AIG, Bank Leumi and Coutts and will fund existing and...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Bristol area can benefit from research and development grants of up £75,000 under UWE Bristol’s relaunched Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) grant funding programme. The popular initiative, which recently opened for the fifth time, pledges a total of £650,000 in funding. SMEs in any...
The West of England’s largest business organisation this week warned the government that its approach to Brexit was “positively damaging” firms in the region. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, backed an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May by the British Chambers...
Bristol firms are being urged to help mentor the city’s aspiring entrepreneurs and, in turn, learn from them in the process. BRAVE Enterprise, the not-for-profit business support organisation, is calling on people with experience of running a business or in business banking to share their experience with people who...
Bristol-based sustainable bank Triodos has become the first in the UK to launch its own crowdfunding platform. The platform, which went live at the weekend, offers a range of crowdfunding opportunities enabling people to invest directly in equity or bonds issued by organisations delivering positive social and environmental impacts....
Bristol businesses have been praised for raising more than £350,000 towards the transformation of city concert venue Colston Hall. They have backed the Transform the Hall campaign as corporate partners offering financial or in-kind support to help raise the funds required to roll out the biggest-ever capital project to...
Brexit, the economy, skills shortage and the impact of technology on supply chains were among the themes discussed at an Institute of Export event, hosted by transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson in Bristol. The event brought together members of the Institute of Export & International Trade in the...
Bristol-based specialist legal and business services provider Jordans is seeking further growth in the North of England and Scotland with the appointment of compliance expert Claire Houston-Holland as business development manager. Claire, pictured, who will share her time between Bristol and Cheshire, joins after serving several years in compliance...
Bristol businesses have been urged to engage with their local communities to create programmes that help disadvantaged jobseekers into employment. The call to action came from a meeting of some of the South West’s most influential executives hosted by Business in the Community (BITC). The event drew on existing...
