Career moves

A10 Capital hired Chuck Taylor to head Southeast markets for the firm.

Gleacher & Co. added a new managing director to Gleacher & Company Securities, its broker dealer subsidiary.

CRE debt and equity provider CWCapital hired Todd Trehubenko as managing director in multifamily based in its Needham, MA office. The firm is a subsidiary of CW Financial Services.

Standard & Poor's has announced a new organization structure that includes Global Head of Structured Finance David Jacob leaving the rating agency at the end of the year.

Craig Sedmak, head of CMBS trading at the Royal Bank of Scotland, has left the bank to pursue interests outside of financial services, according to people familiar with the situation.

Ballard Spahr has created a mortgage banking group and hired a team of four attorneys who are at the forefront of evolving regulatory developments.

DBRS has created the position of chief credit officer, Canadian structured finance and appointed Jerry Marriott to this role as of Dec. 1.

Goldman Sachs head of global leveraged finance is retiring, according to an internal firm memo.

Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), on Tuesday named Richard Hornsby as chief operating officer and Jon Greenlee as deputy director of enterprise regulation.

Lloyds Banking Group has closed its Australian leveraged finance group, a spokesman confirmed.

Within minutes of Rep. Barney Frank's surprise announcement that he planned to retire next year, industry insiders and political analysts were focused on who would take his place as lead Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.

Steadfast Cos. hired Richard Gann as chief marketing officer for Steadfast Capital Markets Group (SCMG), its securities and financial services division.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., will announce today that he will not seek re-election next year, capping a 32-year career in Congress, a spokesman said Monday.

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) established a new governing body for institutional investors who need services that are increasingly more multi-product and multi-country.

Emirates NBD Capital (EmCap), previously known as NBD Investment Bank, has been transformed into a specialist advisory services boutique aiming to have a significant flow of capital transactions, according to a company press release.

Carrington Mortgage Services has hired Brad Nease as senior vice president in capital markets. In this newly created position, Nease will lead the secondary marketing efforts for the firm’s loan origination business, and will be responsible for product development, investor relations, loan trading and warehouse lending.

Alternative investment manager the Carlyle Group is expanding its lending business with the acquisition of Churchill Financial, a provider of debt financing to middle market companies.

Chicago,IL-based Clopton Capital plans to create larger conduits for lending CMBS loans.

Lender Processing Services (LPS) has responded to Nevada's attorney general filing charges against two LPS employees.

UBS is reportedly closing its U.S. ABS business, according to a Dow Jones report that quoted an advance copy of a Thursday edition of Swiss weekly Handelszeitung.