Career moves

Several female executives accepted leadership roles throughout the industry and in regulatory roles during the past month.

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Shannon McGahn will depart the House committee next week and will join the National Association of Realtors as senior vice president of government affairs.

Stevens will step down this month as head of the Western region, which had been cited for widespread customer-integrity violations. However, she had been credited with raising concerns about aggressive sales practices.

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Gerri Sexsion, who has led the credit union since 1997, is set to retire in early 2019.

Paul Yonamine will succeed Catherine Ngo as the company's leader next month. Ngo will continue to run Central Pacific's bank.

USAA will be eliminating 265 home sales and lending positions, but it already has offered nearly 100 of the affected workers different jobs within its mortgage unit.