 influencer
Can you suggest the name of an Angel Investor or VC that might be interest- ed in being profiled?
Dave Lambert of Right Side Capital Management
What’s the best FinTech product or service you’ve seen recently?
One of the best fintech products I’ve seen recently is Venmo because it makes it easy to split a check between friends and family members.
Finally, let’s talk predictions. What trends do you think are going to define the next few years in the FinTech sector?
I predict that the digital transformation will continue because currently most customers prefer to interact with their banks through digital channels. The demand for online resolutions will rise as millennials represent a larger portion of the workforce, and banks need to meet their needs to stay competitive and relevant. We can also expect to see biometrics secure corporate mobile. As banks continue to teach their customers about mobile security, they will try to integrate biometrics to increase security and enhance the user experience.
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About Mark Tay
Mark Tay is a senior portfolio manager and portfolio analytics specialist at Allianz Global Investors, based in Singapore. He joined the firm in 2012, taking responsibility for Asian fixed income mandates. Prior to joining AllianzGI, Tay worked at HSBC Private Bank where he was in charge of fixed income investments for the discretionary portfolio management team. Before this, Tay was AXA Investment Managers managing Asian fixed income assets. Prior to joining AXA, he spent five years at DBS Group in various roles in equity portfolio management and corporate banking. Tay graduated from Imperial College London with first-class honours in electrical and electronics engineering. He has a masters in finance from the London Business School and is a Certified Financial Risk Manager.Accounts Assistant – Cambridge
About the Role
Are you looking to apply your finance experience to a rapidly growing company? As Accounts Assistant at Costello Medical you will play a key role in delivering a wide range of financial tasks, quickly taking on significant responsibility across the finance function. You will be encouraged to contribute to the future shape of our processes to ensure we keep pace with our growing client base and changing needs.
We would consider part-time roles for applicants who require flexibility around family or other commitments.
Your initial responsibilities will include:
- Invoicing: preparing, sending and monitoring invoices
- Credit control: contacting clients to ensure timely payment
- Expenses: assisting with the management of internal and recharged expenses
- Book-keeping using Pegasus, Opera 3 and Rapport3
- Innovating and driving improvement across financial systems
About You
Our ideal candidate takes pride in delivering an excellent service internally to colleagues and externally to clients and suppliers, thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a fast learner and has the capacity to drive improvements in our financial systems that keep pace with our exciting growth plans.
The role includes responsibilities across both accounts receivable and payable; however, we will consider candidates with significant experience in only one area.
Essential qualities and experience:
- Practical experience working within an accounts function
- Experience of book-keeping and other aspects of financial or management accounting
- Good Excel skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- A high degree of written accuracy
- A strong commitment to continuing professional development
Desirable qualities and experience:
- Part AAT qualified
- Experience of working in an SME operating internationally
- Advanced Excel knowledge, including pivot tables and IF and VLOOKUP functions
What We Offer
- A starting salary of £23-25k, based on your qualifications and prior experience
- The opportunity to shape your own career in a small but rapidly evolving finance team, and to progress and take on significant responsibility very quickly
- Full funding and study leave for you to acquire or maintain professional qualifications
- Flexible benefits package
- 4% employer pension contributions and a salary-exchange-for-pension scheme
- 25 days holiday per annum, with the option to increase this after 6 months qualifications and grades achieved where applicable.
Please contact recruitment@costellomedical.com if you have any questions about the role or application process. We regret that we do not have time to take cold calls from recruitment agencies; thank you for your understanding.Barclays Private Equity sells GHD GesundHeits GmbH Deutschland (“GHD” or the “Company”) to IK Investment Partners.
With the support of Barclays Private Equity, GHD has successfully implemented a buy & build strategy, increasing the Company’s turnover almost five-fold since 2006. The consideration for the transaction is undisclosed.
In August 2007, Barclays Private Equity acquired a majority holding in GHD– located in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg – and since then has successfully increased its holding through the Company’s buy & build strategy. Strategic acquisitions in stoma care product manufacturer For Life – specialists for individual infusion solutions (since 2010: Profusio GesundHeits GmbH Deutschland) - and in two logistics providers Sangro and DVG, have reinforced the Company in the strategic growth fields of oncology and logistics, and permanently established GHD as Germany’s largest out-patient health, treatment and service provider.
In 2010, GHD will achieve, with over 1,500 employees, a turnover of approximately €300 million: a five-fold increase compared with 2006. Andreas Rudolph, the founder and managing director of the GHD Group, will remain with the Company.
"We are glad of the opportunity to thank the Management team supporting Andreas Rudolph for this excellent performance. The impressive corporate development of the GHD Group is an excellent example of organic, sustainable growth, successful development and the expansion of a medium-level player to the status of market leader thanks to stable investment from proprietary capital and sound management", commented Dirk Schekerka, managing director of Barclays Private Equity.
Schekerka continued: "In conjunction with the Management of GHD, we are convinced that - in IK Investment Partners - we have found a powerful and stable partner for the continued expansion of the GHD Group".
Andreas Rudolph founded the company in 1992, launching an innovative home care service on the German health market: ambulatory provision of medical aid and medicine services for patients in their home environment. In 1998, Coloplast, the Danish adjuvant manufacturer, joined Andreas Rudolph’s venture in order to finance growth and develop new projects. The move enabled the company to diversify the therapy portfolio and offer, alongside stoma and incontinence care products, enteral and parenteral nutrition, as well as further intravenous therapies. In 2005, a joint venture with HAD Apotheke Deutschland successfully became the foundation for supporting customers with pharmaceutical supplies, in particular with prescription medicines.
Now, with more than 1,500 employees, these divisions operate under the joint umbrella of GHD GesundHeits GmbH Deutschland and provide services to approximately 3,000 customers catering for out-patients and bed patients: approximately 70,000 patients in total.
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I'd call that a jazz progression, using conventional functional harmony, going through a cycle of 5ths - backcycling secondary dominants, if you want technical jargon!  The chords of the loop are these:

|Gm7 / / C7b9 |Fmaj / / Fm6 |E7 A7 D9 G9 |C6 / / / |

The key is C major.  The final tonic is preceded by its normal V chord (G7, with a 9th extension); but then the G is preceded by its own V7 (D9), and so on back to E7; that's the "backcycling" process, and  E7, A7 and D7 are all "secondary dominants".

The opening bar is a ii-V into the IV chord (Fmaj7); and the b9 (Db) on the C7 chord is a typical jazz alteration.  C7 is another "secondary dominant" ("V/IV", or V of the IV chord), and Gm7 is its sidekick, a "