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Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 5.

Employment in the mortgage sector rose for the first time in three months in March, driven by an increase in loan broker hires.

Real estate finance advisory services and technology provider Situs has purchased The Collingwood Group, a Washington advisory group staffed largely by former government mortgage agency officials.

First Financial in Ohio says financial health tools for its clients’ employees will build more lasting commercial banking relationships.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 28.

From a few employees at Hutchinson Credit Union who spent part of their day focusing on better servicing of local home mortgages, Member Mortgage Services has grown in just 13 years into a separate company with 37 employees.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 21.

Citi has named David Chubak as head of global retail banking and mortgage for the global consumer bank, replacing Jonathan Larsen, who resigned late last year.

American Financial Network has agreed to pay $5,000 to an unnamed person of Hispanic origin to settle a Fair Housing Act claim.

A Rochester, N.Y.-based mortgage company that leases space in Amherst, N.Y., is seeking tax breaks to subsidize a nearly $3 million purchase and upgrade of a shuttered bank branch two miles away in Clarence, N.Y.