Career moves

Three officials – including chief operating officer Craig Wildrick – recently left Allonhill, an independent third-party mortgage review firm based in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren, who is credited with founding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will announce Wednesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown, R-Mass., according to combined press reports.

Elizabeth Warren has headed back to Massachusetts, but she remains engaged in the partisan fight in Washington over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Former Mortgage Bankers Association chief executive John Courson has joined Treliant Risk Advisors as a senior advisor, a press release from the company said.

Kinecta Federal Credit Union signed Chris Knox as Northeast regional manager for its wholesale/correspondent mortgage lending operation.

Congress has imposed numerous checks and balances on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's powers, according to Richard Cordray, who has been nominated by President Obama to be the agency's first director.

The Collingwood Group Wednesday announced that it has hired industry veteran Tom Cronin as a managing director of the firm.

In a long-awaited showdown over the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats sparred over whether the Senate should proceed with the nomination of the bureau's first director.

The nominee to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he prefers to use "supervisory tools" as opposed to litigation to enforce consumer protection laws.

Stephen L. Ledbetter, senior vice president of mortgage backed securities for the Government National Mortgage Association, is leaving the agency for a senior position at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to officials familiar with the matter.

3Point Asset Management, Irvine, Calif., has hired Ron Millar as AVP in charge of sales and training.

Flagstar Bancorp, Troy, Mich., this week named Henry Darakhovskiy senior vice president and manager of balance sheet management portfolios.

The Appraisal Institute named a Texas appraiser as its new elected vice president for 2012 as part of its annual changing of the guard.

Mortgage quality control technology and services provider Aklero Risk Analytics has named an executive from ISGN as chief financial officer.

Opes Advisors, a wealth management and residential mortgage banking firm, said that mortgage advisor Ed Diaz has joined its San Mateo office.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors has promoted John Ryan to be its new president and chief executive.

Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc., said C.T. Hill, its corporate executive vice president and head of consumer banking and mortgage, would now have his primary focus on the company's mortgage business.

Michael Buttner, most recently head of residential mortgage-backed securities for Wells Fargo Securities, has been named managing director of the unit's bank strategies group.

DecisionReady Solutions appointed Matthew Lichtner to the position of executive vice president, director of national sales and client relations.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Tuesday appointed Charles Taylor to oversee the development of capital requirements for national banks.