Stephen Knight appointment

Stephen Knight will continue as executive chairman of Checkmate Mortgages and joins Cicero in a non executive role to lead the company’s ambitious expansion plans.

Cicero now offers three major public policy offerings:

• Cicero Consulting – the UK’s leading financial public affairs consultancy

• Cicero Forum – financial sector event and conference management

• NovaRes - the latest financial UK/EU political, regulatory and key influencer monitoring service delivering real-time information and analysis.

Stephen Knight, chairman of Cicero Consulting, said: “Cicero Consulting is now recognised as the leading financial sector public policy consulting group in the UK. I am looking forward to supporting Cicero’s development of this core business as well Cicero Forum and the exciting Nova Res business.”