Barclays strengthens area’s corporate team

Mr MacNicoll joins the team as a relationship director and will be responsible for multi-national corporate businesses with a turnover of more than £20m in the Yorkshire region.

Mr MacNicoll worked for UBS Investment Bank for seven years specialising in prime services distribution across Europe.

He also worked for Morgan Stanley Investment Bank for six years covering multi-asset class hedge funds and asset managers across financing and derivatives, with a focus on US clients with European headquarters in London.

Elsewhere, Keighley-based All Square Treasury, which specialises in claiming for mis-sold business loans and swaps, has appointed Melanie Dickinson Denby as legal director. Having trained at Walker Morris in Leeds, she has more than ten years of experience in commercial and financial litigation where she was most recently head of non-standard debt litigation at Optima Legal.

Chartered surveyor and director of Flanagan James, Richard Flanagan, has been appointed to the board of York Science Park.