Career moves

Freddie Mac executive Anthony Renzi has accepted a senior mortgage job with Citigroup, after weighing a position with Wilbur Ross’ fast-growing mortgage empire, according to industry sources.ASR sister publication National Mortgage News (NMN) tweeted about Renzi’s job offers on its Web site early Monday afternoon.

Gleacher & Co. Securities, a broker-dealer subsidiary of Gleacher & Co., has hired Perrin Arturi and Donald Ullmann as executive managing directors who will co-head the firm's MBS/ABS and rates division.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is turning its sights on companies’ in-house and outside lawyers for obstructing investigations and for green-lighting questionable mortgage bond deals, The Wall Street Journal reported this morning.

Industry veteran Tony Renzi, who joined Freddie Mac last spring as part of a major organization at the GSE, has resigned from the company effective May 11, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

The past is coming back to haunt former Fannie Mae chief executive James A. Johnson.

PHH Corp. said today that it appointed Robert Crowl, executive vice president. He will assume the role of chief financial officer after the company has completed its 1Q12 financial reporting.

Oak Hill Advisors has added a partner for its European credit business.

Commercial mortgage banker Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., has hired three new producers in its capital markets group.

Law firm Mayer Brown has brought on Richard Spitzer as a partner in its insurance finance group.

Charles Schwab is looking for a managing director who will focus on conducting structured finance analysis on ABCP and non-mortgage ABS, according to job database Fins Finance.

Roughly 33 full-timers will lose their jobs when Ally Financial closes its MBS broker/dealer operation, according to a company spokeswoman.

Newedge has appointed Jeff Pollack as chief financial officer for the Americas based in its New York office.

In prepared remarks today, Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Edward DeMarco said his preliminary thoughts on using Treasury incentives to offer principal forgiveness to underwater borrowers.

Macquarie Investment Management (MIM), which is part of the Macquarie Funds Group, has appointed four senior executives to strengthen its distribution across Europe.

Mayer Brown has hired Stephen Rooney for its New York office as a partner and co-leader of its insurance finance group.

Oak Hill Advisors named its current Chief Operating Officer as its President.

Barclays said today it named John Langley and Joe McGrath co-heads of the global finance and risk solutions business within the firm’s investment banking division.

Carlos Mendez left investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill + Partners in mid-February. He was the firm's head of structured finance at the time of his departure.

Former head of securitized products research at Credit Suisse Dale Westhoff will be shifting his responsibilities at the firm.

Nomura added a leveraged finance banker to its investment banking group in the Americas, the firm said.