FHLBanks Office of Finance Names CEO

John Fisk has been named chief executive officer of the FHLBanks Office of Finance, the debt issuance facility of the Federal Home Loan Banks, effective Jan. 1.Mr. Fisk has served as the No. 2 executive in the Office of Finance since May 2004, and is currently responsible for managing all day-to-day functions. He will succeed CEO and managing director John K. Darr, who has led the Office of Finance since 1992 and plans to retire on Dec. 31. Mr. Fisk will also become chief operating officer and president of both the Financing Corp. and the Resolution Funding Corp. on Jan. 1. Before joining the Office of Finance, Mr. Fisk was executive vice president of strategic planning at MGIC, and he previously held various capital market and mortgage positions over 17 years at Freddie Mac. By the time he left in 2000, he was executive vice president for the single-family mortgage business.