Career moves

FNC Inc. hired Steve Grundleger as executive vice president.

AXA Investment Managers (IM) has appointed Laurent Gueunier as head of AXA Structured Finance after eight years of his leading the corporate credit team, the company said Monday.

Elana Hahn has joined Morrison & Foerster LLP capital markets group as a partner in its London office.

David Frase, executive vice president in charge of warehouse lending at Southwest Securities FSB, Dallas, has left the company, industry officials confirmed to ASR's sister publication National Mortgage News.

Chris Gootkind is the latest addition at Loomis, Sayles & Co., where he has joined the firm’s fixed-income group as the director of credit research and a credit strategist.

MetLife Bank plans to officially launch its new warehouse lending division in the fourth quarter and is in the process of hiring between four and six additional staffers for the business.

Cole Real Estate Investments hired William Broms as director of acquisitions. The move was announced by Marc Nemer, president of the firm.

Dennis Cariello has joined DLA Piper's New York office. In his new position, Cariello will continue to focus on higher education issues. He will also be serving as a co-chair of the new education and education services group.

Rabobank hired Tony Muoser as a managing director for its renewable energy and infrastructure finance (REIF) Americas group. He will be based in New York.

Kurtzman Carson Consultants (KCC), an El Segundo, Calif.-based provider of bankruptcy administrative services, added a director of corporate restructuring services, the firm announced Tuesday.

Standard & Poor's has appointed Grace Osborne as business leader for U.S. mortgages in the firm's structured finance ratings group.

Loren Carlson and Edward Chan joined M.R. Beal & Co. as managing director and vice president, respectively. Both hires will be part of the firm’s public finance department.

Chadbourne & Parke hired banking and finance attorney Simon H.P. Morgan for its Moscow office as partner. This boosts the firm's capital markets practice in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.

The nation's top accounting standard setter is retiring.

Knight Capital Group has hired three from FBR Capital Markets’ credit sales and trading team, according to Bloomberg.

Wilmington Trust has tapped 25-year financial services veteran Carol Baldwin Moody to lead “the direction and execution of all aspects of risk management,” the firm said Monday.

Mayer Brown appointed Dominic Griffiths as the new head of the banking and finance group in London.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch global research hired Michelle Meyer as part of the developed markets economics research team as senior U.S. economist.

John Walsh, the former chief of staff to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), is now the acting Comptroller of the agency that supervises national banks.

Cecile Houlot joined Morgan Stanley as managing director and head of its European securitization effort within the global structured solutions group.