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The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle entered into a consent order with the Federal Housing Finance Agency late Monday that requires the bank to take certain steps to improve its capital position and its business and operations.

Total Mortgage Services, a fast growing New England nonbank lender, has hired Michael Dimech as its new operations chief.

Fidelity National Financial chief executive Alan L. Stinson is stepping down from that job, but remaining with the company as an executive vice president. Chief operating officer George P. Scanlon will take over the CEO job.

Safeguard Properties, Valley View, Ohio, has promoted Michael Halpern to director of community initiatives where he will head up the REO field service company’s newly created government relations department.

Industry veteran Tom Wind, who has headed such mortgage powerhouses as Chase Home Finance and Aurora Loan Services, has been named managing director of J.I. Kislak Mortgage LLC, Miami Lakes, Fla.

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Sun Prairie, Wis., has hired mortgage trainer Bliss Sawyer as a senior loan consultant to the company.

Radian Guaranty Inc., Philadelphia, has hired its first ever chief franchise officer, a position designed to build and promote the value of the company's mortgage insurance offerings.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. named Mark Pearce director of its newly-established Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection.

LoanMarket.net, Irvine, Calif., has hired Jeff Haar, a former executive in charge of correspondent lending at Saxon Mortgage, a nonprime lender based in Virginia.

The Senate late Wednesday confirmed Janet Yellen and Sarah Bloom Raskin as members of the Federal Reserve Board, leaving only one vacancy on the seven-member panel.