Career moves

CastleOak Securities has hired two professionals for its fixed-income sales department, the firm said today.

Radian Group, the nation's third largest mortgage insurer, said in a new regulatory filing Wednesday that it has fired its chief operating officer Robert Griffith and reduced its workforce by 7%.

Nomura Holdings has hired two executives for its leveraged finance group, a source familiar with the situation confirmed. The additions come in the wake of several high profile departures from the Japanese bank.

European structured finance company Bishopsfield Capital Partners has hired Arjan van Bussel as a new partner to boost its advisory, real estate and structured finance businesses.

DBRS hired Chris D'Onofrio for its structured finance group as a senior vice president. D'Onofrio will focus his efforts in the firm's ABS group as a lead analyst.

Marathon Asset Management hired three new partners for its structured and corporate credit businesses.

RBS Securities (RBS) hired Tom Majewski to join RBS's global banking and markets division in the Americas as a managing director in its ABS finance coverage and advisory team.

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Now that Walter Investment Corp. has officially purchased subservicer Green Tree Servicing, St. Paul, Minn., and its parent company, GTCH Holdings, it has changed certain job duties of executives that joined the firm.

Mike Perry, who led IndyMac Bancorp until its collapse in 2008, is trying to rehabilitate his image, waging a public campaign rarely seen from an executive of a failed bank.

A verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday has conjured up a shared happy ending between DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach and his former employer The TCW Group after more than two years of legal wrangling.

Wilmington Trust added five capital markets professionals to serve clients in Wilmington, Del., Los Angeles, Calif., and Dallas, Texas.

Bill Beckmann begins each week with a flight from his home in St. Louis to Washington, D.C. The weekly flights have become a routine of sorts since he took on a job that of late, has become among the most daunting among executive jobs in the mortgage industry, president and chief executive of Merscorp.

Three officials – including chief operating officer Craig Wildrick – recently left Alonhill, an independent third-party mortgage review firm based in Denver.

Bingham McCutchen is expanding its presence to California by hiring Dan Passage in the firm's Los Angeles office.

DBRS hired David Sánchez Rodríguez for its structured finance group as assistant vice president.

Lloyds has hired a veteran of the high yield market and leveraged finance to head up its high yield capital markets group, according to reports.

Juergen Stark is set to announce his retirement as chief economist of the European Central Bank (ECB), according to several market reports.

KGS-Alpha Capital Markets hired Robert Piano for the firm's new ABS team. Piano joins from Barclays Capital after nine years in the bank's asset securitization group, where he was most recently a director specializing in esoteric asset deals.

Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. appointed Scott Heath to its Atlanta office as a loan officer covering the mid-Atlantic, southeast and southwest regions.