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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s director of industry standards is leaving the trade group, less than six months after the MBA resumed running the day-to-day operations of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization.

Ellie Mae said that Cathleen Schreiner Gates has joined the company as senior vice president of sales and client services.

ISGN Corp., Melbourne, Fla., hired Jennifer Fulks and as associate general counsel with a focus on regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, ethics, risk management and operational compliance.

Brent Wessel joined commercial real estate lender Red Mortgage Capital as a managing director, commercial/multifamily loan originator based in the firm's Newport Beach, Calif., office.

The past is coming back to haunt former Fannie Mae chief executive James A. Johnson.

Don Curtis, vice president of business development for Carrrington Mortgage Services, Santa Ana, Calif., has left the company.

PHH Corp. hired Robert Crowl as executive vice president, effective April 26, setting him up to eventually become the company’s chief financial officer.

Lenders One Mortgage Cooperative, St. Louis, a national alliance of community mortgage bankers, correspondent lenders and suppliers of mortgage products and services, named Jeffrey McGuiness as its new CEO.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau poked its thumb in the eye of residential loan officers originating mortgages for depositories.

Reznick Group, Bethesda, Md., said that Deborah Levinson has joined the firm as a Principal.