Countrywide Retail Chief Departs

Joe Anderson, senior managing director in charge of Countrywide's consumer markets division, has left the company.A Countrywide spokesman confirmed to MortgageWire that Mr. Anderson parted ways with the Calabasas, Calif.-based mortgage giant, the nation's largest overall home funder and second-largest retailer. (Mr. Anderson oversaw the company's retail effort.) The spokesman said he left Countrywide this spring and was replaced by Brian Hale, who was the No. 2 executive in consumer markets.