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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.

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.

Freddie Mac on Tuesday afternoon unveiled a major reorganization in its ranks, naming former GMAC executive Tony Renzi to head a newly created division to oversee single family lending, operations and technology.

Add the name of Alexander ‘Zan’ Hamilton to the growing list of former mortgage bankers who are hoping to get back into the game.

Freddie Mac said Monday it expects its upcoming second offering of its multifamily structured pass-through “K” certificates backed only by seven-year multifamily mortgages to be a bit bigger than its first, and separately noted an executive personnel change in its multifamily area.

Brian Simon is joining Caliber Funding LLC, Irvine, Texas, as its new chief executive, while Michael Massella is the company's new senior vice president, wholesale lending.

IServe Residential Lending, an 18-state lender, this week announced that it has added seven new retail branch locations: three each in California and Washington state, and one in North Carolina.