The latest moves in wealth management across the world.

Barclays
Barclays’ wealth and investment business has named two senior figures for its teams across the UK.

Nick Keenan has been appointed team manager for the North East team; he is a chartered financial planner. Having recently built and run financial planning at Santander UK, Keenan has previously advised clients at Coutts and Credit Suisse on wealth structuring with an emphasis on estate and retirement planning, Barclays said in a statement.

Another joiner is Craig Jamieson, who is now leading the West Scotland and Northern Ireland team as team manager.  Jamieson has been with Barclays’ wealth business for 10 years, most recently as head of the team covering the UK South coast and he sat on the board for the Barclays Solent & Dorset campus. Before taking over the helm in Bournemouth, Jamieson held posts leading the West of Scotland for Wealth, and chief of staff roles with both the MD of the UK private bank and the global head of wealth compliance.  

Prior to joining Barclays, Jamieson was national sales director for Scottish Widows, working for the company for 12 years. Before he moved into the industry, Jamieson had a 14-year military career serving as an officer in the Royal Engineers. He specialised in diving and bomb disposal after graduating from Sandhurst as the Queen’s Gold Medal winner. 

Arabesque
Asset management firm Arabesque has appointed three new non-executive directors to its board. All of the appointments are subject to regulatory approval, the firm said in a statement.

The new members of the board are; Carolyn Woo, former chief executive and president of Catholic Relief Services, John Ruggie, the Berthold Beitz professor in human rights and international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Yolanda Kakabadse, president of WWF International. Kakabadse’s role on the board will commence on 1 January 2018, following the completion of her term of office at WWF International.

They join Barbara Krumsiek, former CEO and president of Calvert Investments, and Georg Kell, founding executive director of the United Nations Global Compact, on the board of directors.

Arabesque is an asset management firm, spun off from Barclays Bank in 2013, that uses self-learning quantitative models and big data to assess the performance and sustainability of listed companies.