Barclays Wealth boosts growing trust unit
Rick Denton is to head Barclays Wealth
Advisory’s clients and markets division as part of efforts to
expand the bank’s trust business.
Based in Guernsey, Denton will be responsible
for winning new wealth structuring and advisory business and
boosting services to ultra high net worth clients globally.
“Our client and market coverage now stretches
from our new trust business in Delaware, US, through to our
established businesses in Europe, and Singapore, where we have just
had approval for a trust business to serve the Asia market,” said
Barclays Wealth Advisory head Rob Withecombe.
Denton joined from
Meespierson/Fortis-Intertrust where he was group commercial
director before the nationalisation of the bank and sale of its
trust business. He previously worked in the private client business
for Bank of Bermuda and Coutts.
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