Canadian bank RBC Wealth Management has appointed Victoria Riding and Sarah Hunter to its UK based credit team.

Riding who joins RBC from Bank of America Merrill Lynch will be director, ultra high net worth, credit solutions.

In this role she will be responsible for the launch, execution and promotion of structured lending products to ultra high net worth clients. She filled a similar role for Bank of America.

Riding will report to Ojan Jamkhou, managing director and head of credit, British Isles and Caribbean and Michael Kay, global head of ultra high net worth credit solutions.

Hunter joins the team from HMV Group where she was in-house legal counsel responsible for managing and consulting on commercial, financing, and real estate portfolios.

In her new role hunter will be a director, credit products and services, managing relationships with the legal community and working on regulatory projects.

Hunter will also report to Jamkhou.

In a statement, Stuart Rutledge, head of RBC Wealth Management British Isles, said: ‘Creating these new roles reflects our intention to deepen our ability to provide highly structured and complex credit solutions as part of our integrated wealth management offering.’