Investment Banking Vet Joining Deloitte

Deloitte & Touche, New York, has hired investment banking veteran Brenda White to head its consumer and financial services department.Ms. White joins the accounting firm from B. B. White & Co., an advisory boutique that she launched a few years ago. During her career on Wall Street she has been a managing director at UBS and Salomon Brothers, working on several large mortgage banking-related acquisitions. She will split her time between D&T's New York and northern New Jersey offices. A few weeks ago, Fannie Mae, which is mired in an accounting scandal, hired D&T as its independent auditor. The firm also has been working for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, conducting a special forensic investigation of the troubled government-sponsored enterprise.