The 350-year outdated establishment has discovered a spot on the board for Andrews as a non-executive director.
Andrews based Zopa in 2004 and stays energetic within the enterprise, which has since reworked to a digital financial institution. He’s additionally a non-executive director of Financial institution of Eire Group and chairs carwow, the European on-line auto market.
He acquired an OBE in 2015 for companies to monetary companies and was named FinTech Chief of the Yr within the 2016 FinTech Innovation Awards.
C. Hoare chairman, Lord Macpherson, says of the appointment: “Giles is a superb addition to the board. His expertise as an entrepreneur and in fintech and banking shall be invaluable.”
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,Giles Andrews, the co-founder of Zopa – the world’s first on-line peer-to-peer lending enterprise – is bringing some fintech chops to C. Hoare, the UK’s oldest non-public financial institution.,