The currency blog

Andrew Brown

Regional Sales Manager

What is your role at CD?

I have been living and working in Spain for the past 5 years. As Regional Sales Manager for CD I am responsible for the Mojácar and La Zenia offices covering a geographical area of Almeria and South Costa Blanca. Our team of 6 people strive hard to promote the CD culture within both areas.

Using the offices as hubs, we work together to assist each other. Whether we are in the office or out in the field our main aim is make sure CD remains the company every one chooses for their FX requirements.

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Pippa Gomis Maile

Alliance and Partners France

What is your role at Currencies Direct?

My role is Business Development Manager France. I work closely with our Regional Coordinators that we have in certain strategic areas over France. I identify new business opportunities, whilst developing existing ones. I encourage and motivate the team here in France and offer help and support when and where I can, I find and help to train new Regional Coordinators establishing a competent team who are able to understand and work within the French market place. I try to keep clear objectives and I work closely with both the management and marketing from our Head Office in London.

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Dan Cousins

PFX Trader

Dan Cousins has been providing extraordinary levels of customer service to individuals wanting to make foreign exchange payments for the past three years.

What is your role at Currencies Direct?

My primary role is to register new private clients and support our business development executives in the UK and abroad with their referrals and affiliate account management. I work very closely with the business development, trading, alliance and partnerships and marketing teams, assigning referrals to the relevant client account executives and guiding the sales team to achieve our ambitious targets for new business, and ensuring that all our new clients receive a consistently high level of customer service and personal attention.

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Zoe Duncombe: Head of Global Strategic Partners

With 10 years of sales and marketing experience within the foreign exchange and payment arena, I have followed the private client, commercial client and the strategic partner model with great interest. There have been some obvious developments and changes, especially within the traditional affiliate model in the UK. Private clients clearly source overseas listings direct with the overseas estate agent rather than the traditional model of their real estate partner within the UK.

Why do you think so many Brits live abroad?
10% of Britons live overseas at the moment, but as the pensioner market grows this will increase year after year. The world is getting smaller and more and more people have realised they can live in the sun, commute to and from a country nearby and don’t have to be in the UK everyday to operate a successful business. For the retired Brits abroad, it’s obvious…the sun and the quality of life!

Which country do you think may be the next big investment area?
I’m not sure there will be another Dubai or another Bulgaria (which have been hot spots in the past), but the more traditional countries sales will start to increase again. All we know is over 2,000 Brits leave this country every week, so they must be buying somewhere! Maybe South Africa is the next hot spot place to move and retire to after the successful World Cup? At the moment it’s no.8 in the league table for emigration. The top being Australia!

What makes CD special?
Currencies Direct prides itself on its local knowledge. We are based in the heart of the financial City of London, but we have representation in our most popular countries so we are there on the ground in order to offer our partners and their clients the best possible service they can get!

Zoe Duncombe
Head of Global Strategic Partners