Career moves

USAA will be eliminating 265 home sales and lending positions, but it already has offered nearly 100 of the affected workers different jobs within its mortgage unit.

The CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are stepping down because the job they were hired to do — return the GSEs to profitability — is done. But attracting top-flight candidates to lead the mortgage giants into a new phase may not be easy.

Brian Brooks, the mortgage giant's general counsel, is leaving this week to head the legal team at Coinbase.

NMI Holdings is laying the groundwork for President Claudia Merkle to replace CEO Bradley Shuster next year.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 14.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 7.

Freddie Mac is promoting Executive Vice President David Brickman to president and will consider him among possible candidates to be the agency's next CEO after Don Layton retires next year.

The Treasury Department and a key housing regulator are preparing to fill a second possible vacancy atop a U.S.-controlled mortgage giant, a move that could strengthen the Trump administration's hand in addressing unfinished business from the 2008 credit crisis.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 31.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 24.