Career moves

CityView, an institutional investment firm focused on urban real estate, in-city housing, and metropolitan infrastructure based in Los Angeles, has hired Mark Beisswanger as managing director and executive vice president. In his new role, he will be in charge of all asset management for the company's three housing funds and will also seek new opportunities for CityView's investment vehicles.

Outgoing House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sharply criticized incoming chairman Rep. Spencer Bachus on Wednesday, ridiculing the Alabama Republican for reportedly saying "Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks."

The Treasury Department on Wednesday unveiled three hires for key positions in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including the naming of Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to be its first enforcement chief.

The Senate Banking Committee Tuesday afternoon approved the nomination of Joseph Smith to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency by a 16-6 vote -- but several Republicans are planning to delay his confirmation by the full Senate.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency this week announced changes to its large bank supervision team.

Citigroup this week hired former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag as vice chairman of its investment banking division.

In January, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Tex., will become chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee where he will conduct extensive oversight hearings on regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Seattle-based e-signature provider DocuSign closed a $27 million investment from Scale Venture Partners and added one of the venture capital firms’s managing directors to its board of directors. In addition, DocuSign added two executives to its management team.

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) was approved by the Republican conference Wednesday to become chairman of the Financial Services Committee next year.

Winthrop Watson will take over as president and chief executive of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh on Jan. 1, 2011, replacing John R. Price, who is retiring.

Regions Financial Corp., Birmingham, Ala., a top 30 ranked residential servicer, named Matthew Lusco senior executive vice president and chief risk officer.

Rep. Spencer Bachus was formally selected by the Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday to serve as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee next year, beating back a challenge from Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif.

Edward Yingling will be joining the law firm of Covington & Burling after he steps down as the American Bankers Association's president and chief executive on December 31.

Don Curtis has departed as national sales manager for Franklin Credit Management, Jersey City, N.J., accepting a position with Carrington Mortgage Services, a privately held specialty servicer.

Joseph Herbst, a top executive at two large corporate credit unions that failed under the weight of risky mortgage investments, emerged last week after being hired as the new CEO for CUMAnet, a mortgage lending credit union services organization based in Basking Ridge, N.J.

Thomas F. O'Neill, a founding principal of Sandler O'Neill Partners, unveiled plans to retire from the New York banking firm — but join a financial services company controlled by MBS co-inventor Lew Ranieri.

HeartLand Financial USA Inc., Dubuque, Iowa, has hired a former Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage executive and his team from a failed Arizona thrift to lead what it hopes will be a growing mortgage operation.

William Moody has joined Williston Financial Group Inc., as an executive vice president and head of its New Millennium Title lender services division. He will also serve on WFG's executive committee.

A former managing director and head of European residential mortgage- and asset-backed securities at Morgan Stanley is filling a somewhat similar role at Jefferies.

American Bankers Association has turned to former Oklahoma governor and Washington veteran Frank Keating to be their president and chief executive starting January 1.