Career moves

EverBank Commercial Finance has appointed Thomas J. Pagano to the newly created position of capital markets leader.

CRT Capital Group (CRT) announced today in a joint statement that it has acquired Braver Stern Securities’ (Braver Stern) institutional sales and trading platform.

Macfarlanes appointed Rachel Kelly as a partner effective June 2011.

Commercial real estate mortgage banking firm CW Financial Services (CW), has enhanced its commercial real estate (CRE) debt platform.

In April, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. came to market with its debut new-issue CMBS transaction that was backed by loans originated by Cantor Commercial Real Estate (CCRE), a real estate financing business formed by Cantor Fitzgerald and CIM Group in August 2010.

Daryl Schwartz, the acquisition chief for G8 Capital, a private equity fund that invests in real estate and nonperforming mortgages, left the company last week.

Sometimes in Washington, even bad public relations can be good politics.

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has appointed Erich Michel as managing director and head of structured trade finance.

The American Securitization Forum (ASF) will have Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro as keynote speaker at its 2011 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 22.

Konstantin Kroll has joined Jones Day as a capital markets partner resident in Moscow, the law firm announced Monday.

Principia Partners appointed Jason Foundakos as sales and business development executive based in New York.

RBS Securities hired Perrin Arturi as a managing director on its agency passthough trading desk.

David Jones, the founder and chief executive of CastleOak Securities, compares his firm to a sports car.

Terry McKay has joined Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. as managing director and head of its new global financial solutions group, the bank announced Friday. McKay reports to Randall Chafetz, head of corporate and investment banking for the Americas.

The chief financial officer of nonperforming loan (NPL) investor Kondaur Capital departed the company about 10 days ago – at the same time that the NPL investor’s founder and chairman Jon Daurio was forced out by the firm’s board, National Mortgage News has learned.According to NPL investors and a source at Kondaur, CFO Janice Ramocinski resigned from the privately held firm, whose investors and backers include The Carlyle Group, and Tourmalet Advisors.

KeyBanc Capital Markets' (KBCM) recently hired Joseph McHale as managing director to its MBS sales and trading group, as reported on May 12 by StructuredFinanceNews.com (see link).

After making several securitization hires and underscoring the expansion of its securitized products origination (SPO) group, Barclays Capital has hired Jonathan Wu from JPMorgan Securities. Please see link for details of Barclays' previous hires.

BTIG has further expanded its fixed-income group by adding Michael Noonan and Drew Rymer.

StormHarbour has made two new senior appointments in Hong Kong that will bolster its Asia-Pacific capital markets business.

Jeannie Lewis and Bryan Morris will join Deloitte & Touche's asset management services governance, risk and regulatory practice. April Lemay, principal at the company, will head up the team.