Career moves

Caliber Funding has added three new senior vice presidents to its executive management team.

Richard Cordray, the enforcement chief at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), will be named to lead the new regulator, the Obama administration said Sunday.

The bank-owned PNC Mortgage Thursday confirmed that it hired mortgage industry veteran E. Todd Chamberlain as its president and chief operating officer beginning Aug. 8.

SNR Denton has hired Robert Bostrom as partner and co-head of the global financial institutions and funds sector, according to a press release from the law firm. The appointment is effective mid-August.

Steve Curry, a six-year veteran of Impac Mortgage Holdings, has left the lender to accept an executive vice president job with ClearVision Funding (CVF), a fast growing wholesaler based in Santa Ana, Calif.

President Obama on Tuesday officially appointed Carol Galante to serve as the new acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), overseeing the agency's single family and multifamily programs.

Todd Chamberlain, a 25-year veteran of the mortgage industry and the head of residential lending at Regions Financial, left the company last week to take a job with a competitor, industry officials told National Mortgage News.

RBC Capital Markets has added a cohead of U.S. loan capital markets, the firm said.

GreensLedge Capital Markets has appointed Ken Wormser and David Powar as managing partners at the firm. Wil Fischer, Ninat Lekagul, and Aimee Means will also join the firm as managing directors, with Mark David, Naz Majidi, and Craig Reckin being named directors at GreensLedge.

Bank of America on Monday tapped its legacy servicing chief, Terry Laughlin, as the bank’s new chief risk officer.

Structured Finance Management (SFM Luxembourg) has appointed Laurent Bélik to managing director at the firm.

Although residential lenders are starting to ponder cutbacks in their ranks, not all mortgage-related firms are worried about their head counts.

Walker & Dunlop hired Douglas Taylor as senior vice president in its multifamily finance unit.

Sheila Bair today officially stepped down as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s (FDIC) Chairman.

Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. and affiliated funds of Perella Weinberg Partners’ asset based value strategy have formed a joint venture to originate commercial mortgages for future securitization, the companies said today.

Eleven years ago, AXA Investment Managers (IM) was one of the first firms to launch a European CLO, and through the most recent financial crisis, when so many new entrants to the European CLO space found it impossible to stay in business, its products were among the few survivors.

Almost three years to the day of seizing IndyMac Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) launched a civil action against its former CEO, saying he "negligently" allowed the thrift to keep making risky loans despite signs of market stress.

ABN AMRO appointed Patrick Keleher managing director and head of loan syndication in North America, a new role at the Dutch firm.

FG Solutions International has formed a new ABS trading desk in North America to expand service offerings for investors and traders.

Lender Processing Services (LPS) CEO and president Jeffrey Carbiener is stepping down effective immediately for what the company said are significant health-related reasons.