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Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 20.

Essent Group may have an opportunity to buy Radian Group, the rival mortgage insurer whose chief executive officer is stepping down.

Radian Group, the second-largest U.S. mortgage insurer, said Chief Executive Officer S.A. Ibrahim will step down at the end of next year after steering the company through the financial crisis as weaker rivals collapsed.

Ditech Financial will shift a St. Louis-area servicing platform to start doing new loan originations during the third quarter.

Joseph Chacko works with H1B visa holders in ethnic communities, and uses his knowledge of agency guidelines and immigration policy to offer foreign workers a place to put down roots.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 13.

Savvy salespeople live by the motto ABC: Always Be Closing. Here's a look at loan officers featured in the Top Producers Rankings who took that mantra to new heights by posting triple-digit increases in their annual mortgage origination volume.

First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. in Tysons Corner, Va., has purchased consumer-direct lender goodmortgage.com.

HomeBridge Financial's Michael Stallings took a desire to help military veterans and grew that into a hearty business focused on bringing other veterans the cornerstone of homeownership.

Greystone, a commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, is adding two executives to a mortgage bond lending team.