Career moves

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has boosted its fixed-income team by appointing Sarah Wall as senior ABS investment analyst.

Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. has appointed Curtis Brunton as a principal in the Western region.

BTIG added three high yield sales professionals to its fixed-income group, the New York-based financial services firm said today. It also added two professionals to its convertible bonds group.

Lewtan appointed Salil Donde as chief executive officer. Donde joins Lewtan from Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, a provider of essential property information solutions.

Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks said C.T. Hill, its corporate executive vice president and head of consumer banking and mortgage, would now have his primary focus on the company's mortgage business.

An "unprecedented crackdown." That's how Commissioner David Stevens described a get-tough program that took place under him at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) from mid-2009 until April of this year. As part of the push, the FHA's Mortgage Review Board issued more administrative actions against lenders in Stevens' first year than it had in the prior eight years combined.

In an unusual — and sure-to-be-humbling — move, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan will submit to a public grilling by a big investor on Wednesday. Hedge fund manager Bruce Berkowitz will host a 90 minute conference call with Moynihan starting at 1 p.m. EST — and he wants your "toughest questions" for Moynihan, whose troubled company's shares have fallen almost 50% this year.Berkowitz, founder of Fairholme Capital Management, said last week that the "purpose of the call is to better understand how Bank of America is navigating the economic environment." He invited skeptics to participate on the call. ASR sister publication American Banker took him at his word and sent along the list below.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft hired Jeffrey Chen for its Hong Kong office as partner. Chen, formerly with Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong, will be a part of the capital markets team.

SNR Denton hired Scott Samlin as a partner in the capital markets practice. Samlin was previously at Morgan Stanley where he was the executive director for the residential mortgage and lending compliance business. He will be based in New York.

CIT Group has appointed Nelson J. Chai as president, the company said today.

The CRE Finance Council (CREFC) hired Martin Schuh to fill the newly created position of director, legislative and regulatory policy. The new hire is based in CREFC’s new Washington, DC office.

Loeb & Loeb hired Peter Seiden and Bryan Petkanics to join its New York office as partners in its commercial finance practice.

The Senate nomination hearing for Richard Cordray, who's tabbed to become the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has been postponed until Sept. 6.

Barclays Capital promoted its head of European leveraged to cohead of EMEA leveraged finance, ASR sister publication Leveraged Finance News has confirmed.

Walker & Dunlop named Michelle Warner and Edward Williams as co-heads of its FHA finance division. They will be responsible for all aspects of the Federal Housing Adminstration (FHA) finance program.

A scholarship fund in Bingham McCutchen partner Edward Gainor’s memory has been established by the law firm at his alma mater The George Washington University (GWU) Law School. Gainor died July 22 of a heart attack.

David Stevens arrived as a commissioner at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 2009 vowing to restore financial discipline to a government housing body facing the stresses of a post-crash world.

BNP Paribas hired Christian Wulf as director in charge of Latin America for the firm's aviation finance group.

Michael Horowitz, a partner in the business fraud and complex litigation group and a member of the management committee at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, has been nomininated by President Barack Obama as inspector general of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing next Thursday on the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).