Career moves

Steve Curry, a six-year veteran of Impac Mortgage Holdings, has left the lender to accept an EVP job with ClearVision Funding, a fast growing wholesaler based in Santa Ana, Calif.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially opens its doors July 21 and one of its first initiatives will be to reach out to the 111 largest U.S. banks to establish lines of communications as it prepares to conduct its first on-site examinations later this year.

President Obama on Tuesday officially appointed Carol Galante to serve as the new acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, overseeing the agency's single family and multifamily programs.

Todd Chamberlain, a 25-year veteran of the mortgage industry and the head of residential lending at Regions Financial left the company last week to take a job with a competitor, industry officials told National Mortgage News.

Bank of America on Monday tapped its legacy servicing chief, Terry Laughlin, as the bank’s new chief risk officer.

Spirit Finance Corp. appointed Thomas Nolan as chairman and chief executive officer, succeeding Chuck Cremens as CEO.

Lender Processing Services Inc.’s CEO and president Jeffrey S. Carbiener, is stepping down, effective immediately, for what the company said are significant health-related reasons.

TD Bank has appointed a director of retail lending sales and plans to hire roughly 100 residential mortgage staff along the East Coast of the United States.

Bank of America has named Mike Hall to replace Paul Szymanski as the head of its warehouse lending business. Szymanski left B of A to reunite with former Countrywide Credit Industries president Stanford Kurland and start a warehouse lending business at PennyMac.

Glen A. Messina is the new chief operating officer at PHH Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J., where he will oversee, among other things, the operations of PHH Mortgage.

Synovus has created a Senior Housing Group to serve the needs of owners of such properties as convalescent and assisted-living care facilities and nursing homes. William E. Shine joins Synovus as director of corporate banking for specialized healthcare lending.

Green River Capital, an REO asset management and loss mitigation provider, has named Lorenz Schwarz as its chief operating officer.

Barclays Capital has appointed Larry Kravetz and Spencer Kagan to its CMBS sector to expand its CMBS origination business.

GNMA executive Christopher Haspel is, more or less, a household name to lenders and servicers that deal with the government agency, and soon will be wearing a new hat—that of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Fannie Mae has recruited Susan R. McFarland to be the company's new chief financial officer.

Gabe Minton was appointed to a two-year term on the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization board of directors, the Mortgage Bankers Association announced Wednesday.

The Mortgage Bankers Association nominated E. J. Burke, executive vice president and group head of KeyBank Real Estate Capital and Corporate Banking Services, to be its vice chair-elect.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp., Fishers, Ind., this week hired industry veteran Dan Bettenburg as its new president.

PNC Mortgage said it has hired Lynette Hale-Lee from Prospect Mortgage to run the bank-owned lender’s Western regional area for strategic partnerships.

ServisFirst Bank hired Brooks Seale as a mortgage loan officer in its mortgage division for the Montgomery region.Seale has been a loan officer specializing in conventional, FHA, VA, Alabama Housing Authority and USDA Rural Development mortgage loans in Montgomery and the surrounding areas for the past nine years.