Kingston Smith has appointed Francis Mainoo as head of sales. Mainoo has nearly two decades of experience in financial and professional services. His expertise includes delivering successful campaigns to multinationals, SMEs and private equity-backed businesses.

Fiona Wilson has been elected ICAEW vice president for 2017-18, commencing June 2017. Wilson qualified as a chartered accountant in 1980 and went on to spend 11 years with Deloitte in London and Jersey. She left to set up her own firm, working as a technical consultant to firms advising them on auditing, financial reporting and practice assurance. For the past 13 years she has served as chair of the Professional Standards Board, ICAEW Board director and chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee. She will serve as ICAEW President from June 2019 to June 2020.

The Bank of England has appointed Charlotte Hogg as deputy governor for markets and banking at the Bank of England. Hogg succeeds Minouche Shafik who will leave her post at the end of February. Hogg’s appointment is effective from 1 March and for a renewable term of five years. In addition to taking on the role of deputy governor, she will also continue in her current role as chief operating officer. In her new role she will have specific responsibility for managing the balance sheet of the bank. She will look after the execution of financial stability and monetary policy decisions via balance sheet operations, the management of the government’s foreign exchange reserves, gold custody services, the operation of the real time settlement system, the effective risk management of these operations and the gathering of market intelligence relevant to policy decisions. 

Ian Mackintosh has been announced as the Corporate Reporting Dialogue’s next Chair. Mackintosh stood down as Vice-Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in June 2016 after five years in the role and has over 30 years’ experience in national and international accounting standard-setting. He takles over from Huguette Labelle who has chaired the Dialogue since its launch in June 2014. The Dialogue is an initiative designed to respond to market calls for greater coherence, consistency and comparability between corporate reporting frameworks, standards and related requirements.

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Jeremy Cape as a partner in the firm's tax strategy an dbenefits practice group in its Lodnon office. Cape advises on tax-related issues covering cross-border transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, finance, restructuring and insolvency, funds and outsourcing. Cape joins from Dentons where he was part of the tax team.