Career moves

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.

Jefferies hired John Ockerbloom as a managing director and U.S. head of real estate investment banking.

Though the majority of the MBS/ABS group was formed in 2008 and 2009, Jefferies continues to expand in this area.

Knight Capital Group expanded its ABS/MBS capabilities in commercial real estate (CRE) finance with the hiring of Barry Funt and Winston van Buitenen as managing directors.

Nomura Securities said on Monday it hired James Merli as its managing director and head of debt origination and debt syndicate for the Americas.

An affiliate of Apollo Capital Management has chosen U.S. Bank as trustee, collateral administrator and custodian for its recent ALM Funding 2010-1 deal, according to a press release issued by U.S. Bank.

Private REIT The Carson Companies hired Fred McIntosh as senior vice president in capital markets. McIntosh will be leading the firm’s newly formed Carson Advisors.

U.S. Bank Corporate Trust Services hired Joseph Giordano as senior vice president and manager of its CDO business.

Distressed mortgage manager Deer Park Road Corp. has hired Scott Burg as associate portfolio manager, according to published reports.

Deerfield Capital hired a former Pimco high yield bond trader as part of an effort to launch new products and grow its trading capabilities, the Chicago-based asset manager announced Wednesday.