Career moves

Kenneth Cohen, the head of commercial real estate finance at UBS AG, is leaving to join Bank of America Corp.

Matt Nevins has joined the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association as managing director and associate general counsel with SIFMA’s Asset Management Group.

GMH Mortgage Services LLC, headquartered in Newtown Square, Pa., hired Ed Moloney as a new loan officer in its Boston branch.

The retirement of Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Johnson at the end of next year has already prompted an elaborate guessing game about who will succeed him at the helm of the panel.

The Financial Services Roundtable is calling on the Senate to confirm Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray along with enacting structural reforms to the bureau that are favored by Republican senators.

Kent Conrad, the former Democratic U.S. Senator from North Dakota, has joined the board of Genworth Financial.

John Caladim and Jon Coleman are the latest additions to Brean Capital’s fixed income team.

The Mortgage Grapevine pays tribute to Peter Samuel Cugno, a forensic securitization mortgage loan auditor at Cugno & Associates.

The third party originations channels will “grow exponentially” over the next few years, and First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. wants to be ready for that, the company’s top executive said.

Naqvi is leaving the company at around the same time the CEO of PNC Financial Services Group, James Rohr, is retiring.

John Schaefer, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, is joining Annaly Capital Management’s board.

CBRE Group Inc. said that Jim Sellers joined the firm’s capital markets debt and equity finance group as a senior vice president.

Christopher Hurn, CEO of SBA 504 lender Mercantile Capital, has written a book to give advice to business owners.

Eastern Union Funding is creating a credit quality division with the aim of enhancing its relationships with its funding sources and its borrowers.

Hallmark Home Mortgage has formally launched USA Wholesale Lending.

The Mortgage Bankers Association promoted regulatory attorney Kenneth Markison to head its public policy initiatives.

Nearly a month after a naming a new chief executive, PNC Financial Services Group has announced a succession plan for its chief financial officer position.

HFF said that Jeremy Womack has joined the firm as a director in its Austin office to focus on debt placement and equity transactions.

Lending Processing Services is adding former Treasury secretary John Snow to its board.

Wilbur Ross has served as a board observer since Ocwen bought Homeward Residential Holdings from WL Ross & Co.