Career moves

DBRS, which recently expanded its scope of ratings coverage to include European corporates, has filled a new managing director role over its European structured finance team with the veteran analyst in commercial mortgage structured finance.

The administrators selected by the president-elect have been grouped into "landing teams" who will collect information on each agency, ranging from the agency's budget and policies to the status of various rulemakings and the current administration's priorities.

Lending Club founder and online-lending pioneer Renaud Laplanche is seeking a second act in a new company.

Aaron Vermut has resigned as chief executive of Prosper Marketplace, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Structured credit firm ZAIS Group has hired two new executives to spearhead its collateralized loans obligation and other asset-backed businesses out of London.

KeyBanc Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of Cleveland-based KeyCorp, has expanded its fixed income platform with the addition of a five-person asset-backed team from BB&T Capital Markets.

Amherst Pierpont Securities has named former Jefferies executive Erez Biala to form and direct a new collateralized loan obligation trading and origination platform at the fixed-income broker-dealer.

The subprime auto lender Santander Consumer Holdings USA has made two key leadership moves as it faces ongoing accounting problems.

Steve Eisman, the money manager who foresaw, and profited from, the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, hadn’t attended a securitization conference since 2007. But Information Management Network, the organizer of an annual confab in Miami, clearly recognizes a good draw. It invited him to give the keynote speech Sunday.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency taps Mauricio Noe to Lead its push into Europe.