FACTORING specialist Rob Sims is now well into his new job as a director to Southampton based Fanshawe Lofts, where he heads its growing independent credit management division.

Rob, who has more than 20 years experience in the invoice discounting industry, including setting up his own independent factoring brokerage, brings with him an extensive knowledge of asset-based lending, and of corporate life at every level.

The credit management division, which offers an integrated package of confidential outsource services for the invoice finance market, was only launched in July 2002, but is already proving very successful.

Rob, who lives in Seaford, East Sussex, is hoping to build on that success even further.

He said: "What attracted me to Fanshawe Lofts was its enormous skill base, which offers the widest possible range of solutions for corporate clients, with its credit management, insolvency and turnaround, and corporate finance divisions."