Barclays Wealth has made three hires to its team in New York, as the bank continues the aggressive global expansion of its wealth management unit with a particular focus on the US business it acquired as part of the Lehman Brothers deal.

The UK private bank has hired Caroline Simko as a managing director and head of global research and investments marketing. Simko joins from AllianceBernstein, where she headed marketing for Bernstein Global Wealth Management since 2002.