Social impact property fund manager, Resonance, has appointed James Laing to its board as a non-executive director. Laing has over 25 years of financial services and governance experience, most recently at Rothschild & Co, where he helped launch Rothschild & Co’s investor advisory practice in 2019. He also co-headed its shareholder engagement division, advising clients on IPOs, M&A, shareholder activism and ESG. Prior to Rothschild & Co, Laing was deputy head of UK & European equities and head of corporate governance for the UK and Europe at abrdn.

CloudPay has announced the appointment of Roland Folz as the firm’s new CEO with immediate effect. Folz, who has over 30 years of experience of working in the financial services, mobility, telecoms and FinTech sectors, will join CloudPay from Solaris SE. In his new role, he will lead employee pay provider CloudPay into its next phase of profitable growth, following the successful expansion of the company in recent years.

Together has announced that it will host a webinar discussing mortgage applications for overseas nationals and the specialist lender’s packaging requirements on Friday 18 August. The session, which can be accessed through Zoom, will be the first in a series of criteria webinars for brokers and will involve discussions around applications where the source of deposit is from overseas. Senior financial crime manager at Together, Rachel Tideswell, will provide guidance to brokers on what questions to ask clients, and offer insights into what to look out for to help protect their business.

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