Career moves

Financial services firm Radian Group has hired Clifford Rossi to be its chief economist and senior vice president.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 20.

Prospects have improved for homebuyers who were frozen out of the American dream by investors who plunked down cash to buy houses in distressed markets.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 13.

Bank of America is laying off 250 mortgage and technology workers in Charlotte as the No. 2 U.S. bank continues to reduce its portfolio of bad loans.

Mortgage document preparation vendor International Document Services has named its first chief executive.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 6.

Bank of America plans to lay off 202 employees in a loan servicing unit in Norfolk, Va., by March 29 because of the continuing decline in the number of delinquent mortgages.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Jan. 30.

Societe Generale is entering the U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities market and has hired a team of more than 10 people from Royal Bank of Scotland Group for the effort.

CoreLogic Inc., the property-data firm spun off from First American Financial Corp., hired Frank Nothaft from Freddie Mac as its chief economist.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Jan. 23.

Freedom Mortgage will hire 500 additional employees to accommodate an anticipated increase in Federal Housing Administration refinance and purchase transactions.

Ocwen Financial Corp. named two new members to its board of directors as the nonbank servicer works to repair its image in the eyes of regulators and investors.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Jan. 16.

United Shore, a lender based in Troy, Mich., has added a new position to its management team, consumer advocate.

Jane Fraser, the CEO of CitiMortgage and head of Citigroup's U.S. consumer and commercial banking units, is handing responsibility for day-to-day global mortgage operations to her current mortgage lieutenant, CD Davies.

Senior citizens have more equity in their homes than at any period since the financial crisis, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.

People movers for the week ending Jan. 9.

Nonbank mortgage lenders added 3,800 new workers to their payrolls in November amid new proposals to offer low down payment conventional loans being announced.