United Trust Bank has appointed Mike Walters to the helm of its restructured mortgage sales team.

Walters whose job title was previously ‘sales director – property intermediaries’, will now become ‘sales director – mortgages’ and will be responsible for the bank’s residential first charge mortgage and second charge loan products.

Key accounts, including specialist distributors, packagers and master brokers, will be managed by Jigar Patel (South) and Chris Pedlar (North).

Corporate accounts, including all network and club level relationships, will be managed by Hannah Oades and Martin Sims.

Broker relationships, including all individual appointed representatives and directly authorised advisers who submit via a network or club, will be managed by Kerry Bradley, James Hodgskin and Rachel Shackleton.

Earlier this year UTB Mortgages restructured its Underwriting Team implementing smaller, more broker focused underwriting support for all introducers regardless of their submission route and created a remote roving underwriter hub based around the Midlands and Manchester.

United Trust Bank director – mortgages Buster Tolfree says: “We’re continuing to develop our mortgage business in terms of product range, employing innovative technology and how we deploy our talented people to best support the wide variety of introducers we now regularly deal with. Mike Walters has been instrumental in the development and delivery of UTB’s successful sales strategy for mortgages and bridging and I’m delighted he’s now 100% focused on helping me to deliver our ambitious plans for UTB Mortgages for Intermediaries.”