Lombard, Bibby and Boost Capital have added sales staff in the UK as the country’s SME asset finance lending grows.

Lombard appointed Nick Mayberry as regional sales director for Scotland and Northern Ireland, reporting to head of Lombard, Ian Isaac.

Mayberry was previously at Barclays as head of payment operations, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Lisa Peters, who has over 15 years’ of experience in the invoice financing industry at HSBC, as business development manager and Stuart Lee as business development executive for the South.

In her role at BFS, Lisa will look after small business clients in Surrey and North Sussex, including Redhill, Crawley, Horsham and Brighton.

Boost Capital has appointed Leyton Jeffs as sales director for the North, who will be responsible for developing broker relationships focusing in the northern regions.

Leyton joins Boost Capital from Aldermore, where he was regional director. Prior to this he worked at RBS Invoice Finance as head of business development.