Barclays Wealth has further bolstered its ultra high net worth team in the MENA region with the addition of Henry Hall as managing director.

Hall will now report to Stefanie Drews, head of ultra high net worth and family offices for the UK and EMEA, and Rory Gilbert, head of MENA for international private banking.

Hall was latterly managing director, head of EMEA emerging markets equities at Merrill Lynch in London. Before this he held roles at Credit Suisse in the UK, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank in the UAE and JP Morgan in the US.

Barclays Wealth has been rapidly building out its UHNW team, earlier this month appointing Laurent Gibassier as managing director. Gibassier joined from Cheuvreux, part of France’s Calyon Group, where he had been a managing director in equity capital markets since 2004, a role in which he focused on the European strategic equity transactions of corporate, private equity, family holding and sovereign wealth fund clients. Earlier this year, Christian Kwek joined from BNP Paribas as managing director, while Theophanis Theophanous, a former private client chief at Deloitte, joined as managing director and UHNW banker.

In another recent hire, earlier this week Barclays Wealth named Trevor Kelham as a director and international wealth advisor in Guernsey. Kelham joined from Rothschild Trust Guernsey, where he had been a managing director.