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Jim Johnson has been remarkably successful in leading the huge corporation that is the nation's largest source of funds for home mortgages. This month, he stepped down from his job [...]

Saying Goodbye to Mr. Birk Roger Birk played the perfect 'operation guy' to David Maxwell's role as 'architect' of policy. So you'd expect that a good deal of the credit [...]

Several former traders and executives have been accused of fraud since the onset of the credit crisis. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating high profile executive at Lehman Brothers and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But the Ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is seen as the biggest fraud.

Edwards to Fannie Terry Edwards, who resigned as president and chief executive of PHH Corp. in June after dissident shareholders won a proxy fight, has taken a key job at [...]

Fannie Legal Saga If Fannie Mae wasn't busy enough sifting through the wreckage of its once-proud business while operating under conservatorship, the government-sponsored enterprise is still diverting resources to executives [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff F inancial advisory firm Rothschild has tapped attorney David Drinkwater as chairman and head of its Canadian operations. Drinkwater has served in various senior executive corporate roles [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan Fannie Mae veteran Michael Williams was appointed as chief executive of the government-sponsored enterprise on Monday, making him the company's third leader in less than a year. [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff WHOSE SHOW IS IT? Herbert Allison's expected move from Fannie Mae's executive suite to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is raising questions about how the Obama [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan WASHINGTON - Herbert Allison's expected move from Fannie Mae's executive suite to the Troubled Asset Relief Program is raising questions about how the Obama administration views the [...]

Byline: National Mortgage News Javid Jaberi, the former senior vice president of servicing in charge of loss mitigation for Residential Capital Corp., has joined Fannie Mae, industry sources said last [...]

WASHINGTON-Even though several major wholesale lenders have exited the channel or severely cut their operations, there appears to be some life left in the correspondent market, according to an upcoming [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan Fannie Mae named David Johnson on Tuesday to be the government-sponsored enterprise's executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Johnson previously worked at Hartford Financial Services [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) named Philip Laskawy and John Koskinen non-executive chairmen of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, respectively. The FHFA is in the process [...]

Byline: Marc Hochstein The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Tuesday that it had installed new nonexecutive chairmen at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and that the two government-sponsored enterprises will [...]

Lehman Brothers is losing its global head of mortgage capital, Theodore Janulis, and head of US securitized products, Richard McKinney. Janulis, who will retire this month, is reportedly a candidate [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Last week's management shake-up at Fannie Mae has focused attention on the executives who must guide the company through the credit crisis, and especially on the man [...]

Byline: Harry Terris Fannie Mae unveiled a number of leadership changes Wednesday. Peter Niculescu, the former head of executive markets, was named chief business officer. David Hisey, the former controller, [...]

Byline: Matt Ackermann Fannie Mae announced Tuesday that it had elected Frederick B. 'Bart' Harvey 3rd to fill the last remaining vacancy on its 13-member board of directors. Mr. Harvey, [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan WASHINGTON - The emergency backstop provided to the government-sponsored enterprises has put the top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the line of fire. Critics, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Three years into his tenure as Fannie Mae's chief executive, Daniel Mudd wants to talk about a lot more than legislation to reform government-sponsored enterprise oversight. In an [...]

WASHINGTON -- In his first interview since legislation tightening supervision of government-sponsored enterprises advanced in the Senate, Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae's chief executive, ticked off his list of concerns. In [...]

MIDDLE ATLANTIC The Pennsylvania Department of Banking has hired Victoria A. Reider as its chief legal adviser. Ms. Reider had been the general counsel and a senior vice president of [...]

Risk Pro for Fannie Fannie Mae is adding former Citigroup Inc. banker Leslie Rahl to its board of directors, filling the seat formerly held by Goldman Sachs & Co. alum [...]

Fannie Mae chairman and chief executive officer Franklin Raines would have to give up one of his titles as part of several reforms that the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise [...]

Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive does not sound like he plans to concede to White House demands about reforming the regulation of the housing government-sponsored enterprises. On Wednesday, in [...]

Hold the Pink Slip Franklin Raines' well-known political acumen was on display plenty in Washington last week. Fannie Mae's chief executive praised Treasury Secretary John Snow for recommending a new [...]

Ellen Lazar, the executive director of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., will become the senior vice president of housing and community initiatives at the Fannie Mae Foundation. Ms. Lazar has had [...]

Fannie Mae's Mercy Jimenez wants to strike the term 'emerging markets' from the mortgage lexicon. The phrase should be 'emerged markets,' the Fannie Mae vice president said at the Mortgage [...]

Armando Falcon, the chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who pushed for tougher capital and disclosure standards for the two secondary mortgage giants, resigned earlier this month amid [...]

Jamie S. Gorelick announced Friday that she will leave Fannie Mae in July after six years as a vice chairwoman to concentrate on her duties at the National Commission on [...]

With the appointment of Stephen Friedman as the chairman of the National Economic Council all but assured, industry observers began speculating Monday on how it might affect bank regulation and [...]

MIDWEST Fannie Mae has named Shalley A. Jones as the vice president for housing and community development at its midwestern regional office, in Chicago. She is in charge of initiatives [...]

Fannie Mae on Wednesday announced the hiring of four new executives. The company said it had hired Kathy Gallo as its senior vice president for human resources and Harold Lewis [...]

Fannie Mae announced Tuesday that Franklin D. Raines, its chairman and chief executive officer, had named 26 new members to a panel that advises it on ways to increase homeownership. [...]

CALIFORNIA Calabasas- Pete Mills has been named as senior vice president of legislative and regulatory affairs of Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. Mr. Mills will be responsible for enhancing the company's [...]

Despite slower home sales in April, Fannie Mae chief economist David Berson is still expecting originations to vault to a record $1.52 trillion this year. The previous record was $1.45 [...]

Keep an eye on the revolving door at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. With Donald E. Powell, the Texas community banker nominated by President Bush for chairman, scheduled for his [...]

Online mortgage origination will never be the predominant medium borrowers use to obtain loans, Fannie Mae chairman Franklin Raines said Tuesday. Speaking at the Forrester Finance Forum here, Mr. Raines [...]

California Santa Ana- Timothy P. Sullivan has been named as senior vice president and national litigation counsel of First American Corp., and senior vice president of First American Title Insurance [...]

CALIFORNIA Irvine-Option One Mortgage Corp. has made two new appointments. Kevin McDannell has been promoted to branch manager of the company's New Jersey branch. Andrea Howell has come in as [...]

David Voth has been promoted to chief product development officer; David Coleman has been promoted to managing director, business services; Michael Koch has been promoted to managing director, marketing; and [...]

Fannie Mae has formally unveiled its new e-business effort by revealing its organizational structure, management team, and several key appointments. Franklin D. Raines, Fannie's chairman and chief executive officer, said [...]

Fannie Mae said Tuesday that chief financial officer J. Timothy Howard had joined its top-level office of the chairman. The other members are chairman Franklin D. Raines, a vice chairman, [...]

Although just in its infancy, the Internet will play a growing role in mortgage servicing in the future. IN THE MORTGAGE SERVICING WORLD, ERIC JOSHU PROBABLY HAS THE MOST UNLIKELY [...]

California Calabasas- Countrywide Home Loans Inc. has appointed Doug Aguiar as senior vice president of national sales and customer services. He will be responsible for the development and implementation of [...]

Julie St. John has been promoted to executive vice president and chief technology officer--Enterprise Systems and Operations, Michael Williams has been appointed president of Fannie Mae/eBusiness, Lynda Horvath has been [...]

Mr. Hoyes has been promoted to executive vice president of Fannie Mae's single-family mortgage business. He will also be responsible for Fannie's e-commerce strategy and single-family customer technology. Mr. Hoyes [...]

Arizona Phoenix- United Guaranty Residential Insurance Co. has made two new appointments within its staff. Bob Dielman has been named as an account executive for the company's New York area, [...]

Mr. Hoyes has been promoted to executive vice president of Fannie Mae's single-family mortgage business. He will also be responsible for Fannie's e-commerce strategy and single-family customer technology. Mr. Hoyes [...]