Paul Joyce has joined Mazars as a partner and head of corporate finance in its London office. He joins from Deloitte where he led transactions across a range of industries and was responsible for leading the firm’s corporate finance advisory relationships with large businesses. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2006 he worked at Credit Suisse and PwC.

Kingston Smith has promoted Nicola Savill, Matt Banton and Joanne How to director. Savill manages the firm’s connect team where she specialises in outsourcing for solicitors, the hospitality sector and not-for-profit organisations. Banton is part of the firm’s general practice division where he works with a variety of clients in the media, technology and property sectors. How is part of the tax team where she manages the employment taxes group.

Kim Rayment, a business restructuring and recovery specialist, has joined Smith & Williamson’s Birmingham office. He joins from BDO and will work with the other 65 members of the restructuring and recovery services team. He will primarily undertake a national role working with a specific focus on enhancing Smith & Williamson’s profile in the asset based lending (ABL) and automotive sectors.

Grant Thornton has promoted Sandy Cowan to director and head of international arbitration in its forensics and investigation services. He focuses on complex international dispute resolution and has a breadth of experience in international arbitration, expert witness and shareholder dispute work.

Milsted Langdon is offering high-achieving students at the University of Bristol the chance to gain experience through a one year placement in its offices in Bristol, Taunton and Yeovil. The opportunity is offered to accounting and finance students will provide the students with training and the chance to begin their professional development.

BDO has appointed former business and city journalist, Jeff Randall, and business and HR strategist, Russell King, as independent non-executives, effective 1 July. Randall has been a non-executive director of Babcock International since 2014 and is a director of Sandown Park Racecourse. He is also a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Business School and an honorary professor at Nottingham University’s School of Economics. King brings with him a distinctive mix of experience in business strategy, turnaround, HR and people development. He holds non-executive posts at FTSE firms Interserve, Spectris and Aggreko, as well as AIM-listed Hummingbird Resources.

The Trustees of the IFRS Foundation, responsible for the governance and oversight of the International Accounting Standards Board, have appointed investor Nick Anderson and academic Ann Tarca as board members. Anderson has 30 years of practical experience, mainly as a buy-side investor using and supporting the development of high-quality financial reporting. He joins from Janus Henderson Investors in the UK, where he served as global equity portfolio manager and head of equity research. Tarca joins the Board from the University of Western Australia’s Business School, where she has been an accounting teacher and researcher since 1996 and a Professor since 2011. She qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985 and has a PhD in accounting from the University of Western Australia.

Chris De Noose has been appointed as EFRAG Board member on one of the banking seats and Ana Cortez has been appointed as EFRAG TEG member.

The Governor of the Bank of England has decided to reappoint Andrew Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee for a further three-year term.