Career moves

SNR Denton has hired Ricardo Martinez as a partner in its capital markets group. Martinez, who joins SNR Denton from Allen & Overy, will reside in the New York office.

Industry veteran Tom Wind, who has headed such mortgage powerhouses as Chase Home Finance and Aurora Loan Services (ALS), has been named managing director of J.I. Kislak Mortgage, Miami Lakes, Fla.

Fitch Ratings announced that Marjan van der Weijden will lead the agency's EMEA structured finance group. She will report to Ian Linnell, global head of structured finance for Fitch.

Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, appointed Joao Garcia as the managing director for its quantitative analytics group.

If Rep. Scott Garrett has his way next year, covered bonds will become a viable way to provide an array of credit, the conservatorship of the GSEs will be unraveled and the new consumer protection bureau will be repealed.

RBS Securities has hired Simon Walker to cohead its loan syndicate within its global banking and markets division.

CRE Finance Council's Chief Executive Officer Dottie Cunningham has resigned from her position.

Numerix hired John Peck as head of sales for the EMEA region. Peck, who will be based in Numerix’s London office, was previously at Quantifi where he was responsible for establishing and running its EMEA operations.

Bingham expanded its Hong Kong office by adding three partners namely, Laurence Isaacson, Vincent Sum and Mark Fucci.

Ohio became the first state to level a civil fraud suit against a major servicer, claiming the company misled courts in hundreds of foreclosure cases by filing fraudulent affidavits.

Solar installer SPG Solar has formed a new structured finance group. SPG’s new group will be headed by Michael Johnson, who joined SPG in June 2010 as vice president of project finance. Johnson is the former managing director of the renewable energy investment program for the National Development Council.

United Capital Markets CEO John Devaney showed ABS market participants at Information Management Network’s ABS East conference that he knows how to throw a great party.

Starwood Capital Group hired a team of seasoned to drive the growth of its commercial real estate finance company, Starwood Property Trust.

United Capital Markets (UCM) is hosting tonight's concert and cocktail party that headlines Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Information Management Network’s (IMN) ABS East conference.

The Richland Cos. hired Andy Carey and Roy Elengical as tenant representatives in its Houston office.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charge two State Street Bank and Trust Co. employees for allegedly misleading investors about their exposure to subprime investments.

BTIG, a broker-dealer partly owned by Goldman Sachs, is pushing into new markets by helping fixed-income investors buy and sell securities in developing countries, which some observers say have matured and now more closely resemble their trading partners in the Group of 7.

BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) announced hires to its now expanded merchant banking group.

Commercial lender CIT Group named Vincent Faino as senior vice president of business development for its vendor finance division.

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corp., engaged investment manager Smith, Graham & Co. Investment Advisors to assist in providing asset management services for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s MBS Purchase Program.