Career moves

Due diligence provider Risk Management Group (RMG) said that Charles Cacici has resigned from his position as managing member of the firm. Cacici plans to focus on personal endeavors, according to a statement from RMG.

Former CMBS strategist for UBS Securities filed complaints with different courts, claiming that UBS and its parent corporation, UBS AG, fired him unjustly.

Ed DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), said Tuesday that struggling borrowers whose loans are owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be allowed to wipe out part of their mortgages under a government program, defying pressure from the Obama administration and top Democratic lawmakers.

Knight Capital Group hired Robert Cestari and David Simek for its institutional fixed-income sales and trading group.

Babson Capital Management has launched a middle market lending group, the Springfield, Mass.-based investment management firm said.

Gleacher & Co. Securities, a broker-dealer subsidiary of Gleacher & Co., hired seven professionals to the MBS and rates division in its New York City office. Glen Riis and Samir Shah have been hired as managing directors while Eric Baeri, Samuel Hernson, David Kaplan, Anthony Mun, and Jeffrey David Weaver have joined as directors.

Kenneth Margala has been hired as director at Cantor Commercial Real Estate (CCRE) where he will focus on loan origination.

Citigroup plans to cut roughly 350 additional jobs this year from its securities division, which includes investment banking and trading, according to published reports.

The American Securitization Forum (ASF) wrote a letter to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors that stated that the proposed plan to use eminent domain to seize residential mortgages would be “poor public policy and unconstitutional.”

WASHINGTON — Twelve Democratic senators have called for a U.S. investigation into any role banks and regulators may have played in the scandal over the London Interbank Offered Rate.

THL Credit Advisors, the credit affiliate of private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, acquired a credit group from McDonnell Investment Management.

McDermott Will & Emery has hired structured finance attorney Perry Sayles to its New York office as a partner in its financial institutions advisory practice group.

While testifying before the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises today, American Securitization Forum (ASF) Executive Director Tom Deutsch advised policy makers to thoroughly analyze how the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act’s various rules will cause cumulative harm to the securitization market.

WASHINGTON — In its first year of operation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has already proved to be one of the busiest regulators in Washington.

Countrywide's VIP program not only benefited numerous members of Congress, but also assisted a handful of Capitol Hill staffers and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson as the mortgage lender built a large web of political influence prior to the financial crisis, according to a congressional report released Thursday.

Over the past 18 months, KB Home experienced a “great deal of disruption” as Bank of America (BofA) and MetLife curtained their lending mortgage activities, according to the builder’s president and chief executive.

In a last-minute reversal, David H. Stevens, the president and chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), will remain at the trade group rather than departing to run SunTrust Mortgage, as he announced plans to do a month ago.

Issuance of European CLOs may be stalled, but 3i Debt Management believes that once the macro-economic picture improves, these structured finance vehicles will resume their role as important players in the region's loan market. That was part of the rationale for the London-based firm's recent acquisition of seven European CLOs from U.S. money manager Invesco.