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Mike Anderson last week resigned as vice president of government affairs for the National Association of Mortgage Brokers.

BOFI Federal Bank, San Diego, is ready to kick off its new warehouse lending business, targeting correspondent lenders.

The Army Times' 2009 Soldier of the Year is now a homeowner, thanks to GMAC Mortgage.

Commercial real estate is expected to make a subtle rebound this year and some community bankers are gearing up for the return.

Patrick Thesing has been named the chief compliance officer for Houston-based Stewart Information Services Corp.

Churchill Mortgage, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based lender that provides conventional, FHA, VA and USDA residential mortgages for borrowers, has expanded its financial services operations by opening an office in Kentucky.

Mary Joine Dum, a leading expert on the use of computers in real estate appraisal and a former product reviewer for National Mortgage News and Mortgage Technology magazine, died on Dec. 15 in Brentwood, California. She was 80.

In a roundtable discussion, Lew Sichelman, senior housing correspondent for National Mortgage News, asks members of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers' executive board what they are dealing with on the legislative front.

The parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage appointed Paul Orlando as its chief information officer and Bill Van Nort as chief technology officer.

The Obama administration is considering nominating Jeremiah Norton, an executive director for JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, to sit on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s board of directors.