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Bank of America on Monday tapped its legacy servicing chief, Terry Laughlin, as the bank’s new chief risk officer.

Spirit Finance Corp. appointed Thomas Nolan as chairman and chief executive officer, succeeding Chuck Cremens as CEO.

Lender Processing Services Inc.’s CEO and president Jeffrey S. Carbiener, is stepping down, effective immediately, for what the company said are significant health-related reasons.

TD Bank has appointed a director of retail lending sales and plans to hire roughly 100 residential mortgage staff along the East Coast of the United States.

Bank of America has named Mike Hall to replace Paul Szymanski as the head of its warehouse lending business. Szymanski left B of A to reunite with former Countrywide Credit Industries president Stanford Kurland and start a warehouse lending business at PennyMac.

Glen A. Messina is the new chief operating officer at PHH Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J., where he will oversee, among other things, the operations of PHH Mortgage.

Synovus has created a Senior Housing Group to serve the needs of owners of such properties as convalescent and assisted-living care facilities and nursing homes. William E. Shine joins Synovus as director of corporate banking for specialized healthcare lending.

Green River Capital, an REO asset management and loss mitigation provider, has named Lorenz Schwarz as its chief operating officer.

Barclays Capital has appointed Larry Kravetz and Spencer Kagan to its CMBS sector to expand its CMBS origination business.

GNMA executive Christopher Haspel is, more or less, a household name to lenders and servicers that deal with the government agency, and soon will be wearing a new hat—that of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.