Career moves

Kondaur Capital Corp. appointed Mark Ferrara as managing director of its community banking group.

Industry veteran Tom Wind is stepping down as managing director of J.I. Kislak Mortgage, Miami Lakes, Fla., after just four months on the job, according to industry officials who have been briefed on the matter.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development late Wednesday named former Freddie Mac executive Robert C. Ryan acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, replacing the departing David Stevens.

J.I. Kislak Mortgage LLC, Miami Lakes, Fla., on Monday named industry veteran Felix Beck as an advisor to the fast growing company.

Veteran Wall Street executive Mark Noble has joined KGS-Alpha Capital Markets LP as head of structured corporate and agency debt as the firm expands its trading platform

Tannery Brook Partners, a commercial real estate investment banking firm based in Charlotte, N.C., is joining up with Cortview Capital Securities LLC, Richmond, Va., to form a new commercial real estate platform to enhance the latter firm's product offerings.

PSM Holdings Inc., Roswell, N.M., is making its second acquisition in the Northeast in recent weeks, having entered into a letter of intent to purchase American Trust Mortgage Inc., a mortgage broker in the Boston area.

RealtyTrac hired Charlie Engel as the new director of business development, real estate.

Former Aurora Bank chief operating officer Craig Wildrick has joined due diligence and credit risk management firm Allonhill as COO.

SunTrust Banks late Tuesday named Jerome Lienhard president and chief executive officer of its mortgage division, the nation's 11th largest originator of residential loans.

Kondaur Capital Corp., which a month ago slashed its loan workout staff by almost 40%, on Tuesday announced that it hired Mark Ferrara as managing director of its newly formed community banking group.

After helping financial institutions weather the financial crisis and oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Richard Neiman is expected to step down as New York banking superintendent in April.

The FDIC sued three top executives of Washington Mutual, alleging their actions in the bank's mortgage lending operations helped cause the biggest failure in U.S. history.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair's last scheduled address to the American Bankers Association turned heated this week.

Former Freddie Mac chairman and CEO Richard Syron recently received a 'Wells Notice' from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which means the agency is considering filing civil charges against him related to his management of company.

While change at the top of the Mortgage Bankers Association was expected eventually, the trade group's board didn't think it would happen this quickly.

For at least his first year as head of the Mortgage Bankers Association, David Stevens will be barred from lobbying the federal agency that matters most to many of the trade group's members: the one he's leaving, the Federal Housing Administration.

The Mortgage Bankers Association Tuesday afternoon confirmed that it has hired Federal Housing Administration commissioner David Stevens to head the organization, effective June 1.

KW Properties Group, a division of international real estate investment and services company Kennedy Wilson, said that Brett Raskin has joined the company as a managing director.

Former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd, who oversaw the GSE's huge expansion into nonprime investing and securitization, late last week received a "Wells Notice" from the Securities and Exchange Commission, indicating that he may face civil charges for allegedly misleading investors about the company's financial condition.