Career moves

Walter Investment Management Corp. subsidiary Ditech Financial plans to lay off more than 100 employees in North Carolina and Texas following declines in defaults across the country.

U.S. Mortgage Insurers has selected MGIC Chief Executive Patrick Sinks as its new chairman.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 22.

Loan officers encounter a wide range of obstacles in the process of seeing a mortgage loan through to closing, but how many can spin silence into livestock?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday promoted three CFPB officials to new leadership positions.

Karl "Chip" Case, the co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller Index of home prices, has died at 69.

Carmen Inclan of Raymond James Bank recognizes customers are happiest, and business booms, when communication is prioritized.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 15.

RealtyUSA has merged with Pittsburgh-based Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

Alterra Home Loans in Las Vegas has secured an expansion capital and equity investment commitment from private equity partnership Panorama Point Partners.

Ginnie Mae has hired Nancy Corsiglia as its chief operating officer.

Nonbank lenders and brokers added 500 new workers to their payrolls in May.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 8.

Fifth Third Bancorp has named Edward Robinson senior vice president and head of Fifth Third Mortgage.

Assurant Inc. in Atlanta has acquired American Title, a title and valuation services provider.

The board of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has unanimously elected CEO and President Jay Bray as the company chairman, succeeding Wesley Edens, who retired July 1.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 1.

A previous career in the restaurant industry sparked an idea that helped Chong Yi nearly double his production dollar volume.

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, an asset manager owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, agreed to buy ACRE Capital Holdings in a bet on multifamily loans.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 24.