People: Alvarez & Marsal has strengthened their valuation services offering in the London office with the appointment of Martin Drummond, who joins as managing director. Drummond arrives from Grant Thornton and previously spent time at EY and KPMG. He’ll work with Richard Bibby, head of A&M Valuation Services in Europe. The firm has been adding leadership in the UK recently, including Omar Mirza, who now heads the newest office in Birmingham.

Firms: KPMG has hired 50 data gatherers, analysts, and managers in Glasgow for their growing second Managed Services hub (the first is in Leeds). The firm plans to hire another 350 soon to handle bulk due diligence processing and large-scale data analysis in regulatory requirements, complaints handling, customer remediation, and other administrative tasks, says Catherine Burnet, senior partner for Scotland. In March, fellow Big Four firm EY acquired the 1,000-person-strong Thompson Reuters managed services business as part of its legal services business.