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Fannie Mae has recruited Susan R. McFarland to be the company's new chief financial officer.

Gabe Minton was appointed to a two-year term on the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization board of directors, the Mortgage Bankers Association announced Wednesday.

The Mortgage Bankers Association nominated E. J. Burke, executive vice president and group head of KeyBank Real Estate Capital and Corporate Banking Services, to be its vice chair-elect.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp., Fishers, Ind., this week hired industry veteran Dan Bettenburg as its new president.

PNC Mortgage said it has hired Lynette Hale-Lee from Prospect Mortgage to run the bank-owned lender’s Western regional area for strategic partnerships.

ServisFirst Bank hired Brooks Seale as a mortgage loan officer in its mortgage division for the Montgomery region.Seale has been a loan officer specializing in conventional, FHA, VA, Alabama Housing Authority and USDA Rural Development mortgage loans in Montgomery and the surrounding areas for the past nine years.

Dave Lowman, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase’s residential mortgage unit for almost five years, is stepping down, according to a statement issued by the company.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has hired Christopher C. Haspel away from the Government National Mortgage Association, giving him a top slot at the new agency, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Fannie Mae sold 62,814 REO properties in the first quarter, a 65% jump in activity from the same period a year ago, according to new figures released by the firm.

CoreLogic appointed Peter Stimson as the new managing director of U.K. operations for CoreLogic.