Career moves

Greg Reiter, Wells Fargo's head of residential mortgage research who spent more than 25 years specializing in bonds backed by home loans and other securities, has died. He was 52.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 16.

PNC Mortgage's chief executive and president Joseph C. Guyaux will retire in the spring of 2016, the Pittsburgh-based company announced Thursday. He will be replaced by treasurer and chief investment officer E. William Parsley III.

Executives in the mortgage industry must "take a page from the real estate community" and be more active in Washington and their state capitals, said outgoing Mortgage Bankers Association Chairman Bill Cosgrove.

SunTrust Banks in Atlanta has promoted an executive to oversee its consumer banking and wealth management operations

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Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 9.

Walter Investment Management has promoted its vice chairman to CEO, after Mark O'Brien said he will retire from that position.

NewCastle Home Loans Owner Ryan Kelley has branded himself as "The Home Loan Expert" and is willing to sit in a bathtub full of credit cards to prove it.

Employment at nonbank mortgage banking and brokerage firms was steady in August, ending a six-month run of job gains.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 2.

NMI Holdings Inc. president Jay Sherwood will step aside and become the company's vice chairman for the remainder of his employment agreement, the company said in an 8-K filing.

USAA will shift about 120 positions in its mortgage operations from an office near Dallas, to offices in Tampa, Fla., and Phoenix.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 25.

Ocwen Financial Corp. announced that it will lay off approximately 300 residential servicing employees at its facility in Waterloo, Iowa.

Money360, a marketplace lender that focuses on commercial real estate, has hired mortgage industry veteran Gary Bechtel as its president.

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Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 18.

Blackstone Group's Invitation Homes, the largest owner of single-family rental houses in the U.S., hired Ernest Freedman from Apartment Investment & Management Co. to become its chief financial officer.

Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired the president of Sequoia Pacific Mortgage.