TISA appoints new director of engagement
TISA is to step up communications with its membership in the coming months. Kim Holloway has been appointed TISA’s new Director of Engagement, assuming an array of responsibilities for boosting awareness and understanding of TISA’s activities within existing and potential member firms.
She will be looking to encourage greater participation amongst senior and executive management in TISA’s activities, in particular soliciting their views and harnessing their input into the Association’s decision-making processes. In addition to these duties within TISA, Kim will also be responsible for recommending changes and updates to its technology and communications deployment,
Tony Vine-Lott, Director General of TISA said:
“Kim’s experience will prove invaluable as we seek to promote and enhance the services that we provide to member companies. For some years TISA has been making remarkable progress across a range of projects, successfully finding practical solutions to intractable problems that have hitherto confounded the industry*.
Because we do not represent the vested interests of any specific group within the financial services industry and based on our willingness to engage with all parties, TISA has a growing and attentive audience. We are able to provide market knowledge borne out of long experience to policymakers, regulators and practitioners alike, enabling them to make more considered decisions. Kim will be playing an important role in ensuring that we are able to offer genuine perspective as we engage more with our member companies, improving their level of input and raising the quality of the industry discussions that count.”
Kim Holloway commented:
‘I am delighted to be joining the TISA team at such an important and challenging juncture in its development. Clearly, member companies are being stretched on all fronts as they look to address the changing needs of their target audiences against a backcloth of fluctuating markets, burgeoning regulation and relentless technological advancement.
It is particularly exciting that TISA has seen beyond the small print, ensuring that it is well-placed to deliver practical benefits to its membership, specifically in the areas of technology and data. Certainly, creating a members’ forum for innovation in and around their needs in these areas will sit well alongside TISA’s existing work. I welcome the opportunity to be involved in such relevant and significant initiatives’.
*Projects include:
– TeX (TISA Exchange Limited) – designed to facilitate the transfer of investments by allowing members to sign up to a standardised set of terms, message sets and legal agreements, thus negating the need for individual contracts with each firm party to transfer instructions. Members have access to a secure contact database (managed by SWIFT) which improves the flow of information in the event of any queries.
– The Cash ISA transfer project was launched as a result of a super complaint in which Consumer Focus asked the Office of Fair Trading to look at concerns around the timing of cash transfers. This led to a joint project where TISA, together with the BBA and BSA worked to reduce the time taken to transfer cash ISAs. This October will see the launch of a central service which will deliver an automated messaging service replacing the need for paper transfer forms for participants.
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For further information, please contact:
Tony Vine-Lott, Director General, TISA – Tel: 07790 006 108Email: tony.vine-lott@tisa.uk.com
Issued on behalf of TISA by Cauldron Consulting, contact Anne McMeehan – Tel: 020 3178 7237. Mobile: 07764 184384. Email: anne.mcmeehan@cauldron-consulting.com
Notes for Editors
The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA)
TISA is the premier industry funded body in the UK retail savings and investment industry. By engaging with member firms, government, political parties, regulators and consumer groups TISA’s ultimate goal is always to further consumers’ best interests. It seeks to improve the range, features and quality of savings and investment schemes available whilst encouraging more people to save for their financial security and peace of mind.
Uniquely, TISA is able to articulate the opinions of the whole savings and investments marketplace through its membership comprising over 136 member firms involved in the supply or distribution of products. TISA’s remit extends across the broad spectrum of savings vehicles & services and centralised investment propositions.
Kim Holloway
For the last 25 years Kim Holloway has worked in a number of commercial roles building relationships at a senior level with financial services businesses. Her previous employers included:
– NMW Computers: (7 years) – Technical and support roles within financial markets, specifically stockbroking, covering all areas of software and related services. EG Programmer, systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, head of client services help desk.
– ACT Financial Systems: (3 years) – Business unit manager for the asset management division, involving responsibility for sales revenue, strategy and growth plans.
– DST International: (13 years) – Global head of sales and marketing across all product lines within the global financial services market place.
– Fusion AI: (2+years) – Partner and investor in this London-based private equity company. Most recent role was as sales director.