Career moves

Guy Carpenter appointed Peter Barr to the position of senior vice president of its regional reinsurance market team.

Investment bank EA Markets is muscling up their structured finance team by bringing on three new hires: Neil Winward, Greg Raykher, and Gerry Kaufman.

NewOak has appointed Donald McGuire as Chief Operating Officer and head of investment banking.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has tapped Charles Taylor from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to chair its standards implementation group.

Brean Capital has continued its expansion into fixed-income products by hiring Scott Buchta as head of fixed-income strategy.

Mike Perry, the chief executive at IndyMac before it was seized by the FDIC in 2008, has agreed to settle the last remaining negligence claim against him by the SEC by paying an $80,000 fine.

David Schneider and Steven Rotella – former Washington Mutual executives who paid fines to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last year for the thrift's "reckless" lending practices – are eyeing a return to mortgage lending.

Suresh Hathiramani has been appointed head of fixed income trading for Natixis' Americas platform.

Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital whose home was burglarized earlier this month, has offered some $1.7 million for information leading to the recovery of stolen artwork.

United Realty Partners has hired Barry Funt as president of United Realty Capital Markets.

Sidley Austin has hired Matthew Cahill, whose expertise includes securitization, to start in early November as a partner in its global finance practice.

Richard D. Baum has been elected as chairman of Redwood Trust, the only current consistent issuer of private-label MBS.

James Meleones will be responsible for all aspects of Clayton Holdings's commercial real estate practice, including loan-level due diligence, loan and portfolio valuation and portfolio oversight and strategy.

Matthew G.J. Duncan, Theresa Kradjian, and Paul Matthews join the firm from Sidley Austin. Sean J.W. Crosky came from Norton Rose, according to a release from the law firm.

Standard Chartered has appointed Steve Perry as head of capital markets for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan, according to a company release. His responsibilities include overseeing the bank's regional securitization business.

The independent third-party review firm has hired the securitization expert as general counsel, the company said in a release today.

The CLO manager said today that it had tapped Jess Larsen for a new role developing and managing relationships with institutional investors in Europe and the Middle East.

Bradley Lerman was appointed as Fannie Mae executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary effective Oct. 1, the GSE said today in a release.

A California judge upheld his own decision to whittle the government's claims against the firm's ex CEO Michael Perry.