Career moves

Guggenheim Securities, an investment bank that specializes in bonds backed by unusual assets such as franchise fees and tax liens, has its eyes on more traditional kinds of securitization.

Asset management firm Ranieri Strategies has hired Eric Kaplan the former head of MBS Finance at Shellpoint Partners. Both are companies founded by Lewis S. Ranieri.

Amherst Pierpont Securities, an independent fixed-income broker-dealer, announced several senior hires today as it seeks to deepen leadership expertise across the firm.

Joseph Wilson Jr. has joined Golub Capital help expand the credit asset manager’s existing distribution capabilities.

Commercial real estate lender Hunt Mortgage Group has hired Amy Shah to build and launch a collateralized loan obligations platform.

Robert Klein has left his role as lead portfolio manager for Prospect Capital Management’s CLO platform to oversee the structured products portfolios at CIFC Corp.

Christian Aufsatz, Barclays' former head of European commercial mortgage backed securities research, has joined the DBRS London office to head CMBS ratings team.

Student lending startup CommonBond has hired Morgan Edwards, a longtime Wall Street leveraged debt specialist, as its chief financial officer.

B2R Finance, a firm that lends to rental property investors, has appointed Darren Thompson as chief financial officer and executive vice president of strategy.

The chairman and chief executive of Santander Consumer USA Holdings has resigned, as the subprime auto lender remains under scrutiny for its lending and securitization practices.

Five Ten founder Carl Bell has moved to Invictus Capital Partners as a managing partner and co-head of investments.

Clayton EuroRisk’s New CEO, Tony Ward Eyes Opportunitues for the due diligence firm in UK RMBS.

Lynn Tilton shot back at U.S. regulators Wednesday, claiming their pursuit of fraud claims against her and her firm Patriarch Partners violates the Constitution.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch promoted two more executives from its collateralized loan obligation unit to top roles in global structured finance.