Career moves

The CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are stepping down because the job they were hired to do — return the GSEs to profitability — is done. But attracting top-flight candidates to lead the mortgage giants into a new phase may not be easy.

Wells Fargo CEO tackles cost-cutting, job cuts and rumors he’ll be replaced; banks put up millions to keep uber-rich as depositors.

Whereas most regulators appointed in the Trump administration are focused on rolling back the post-crisis framework, Nellie Liang helped create it.

Brian Brooks, the mortgage giant's general counsel, is leaving this week to head the legal team at Coinbase.

Goldman's lending and deposit-taking division gets a new chief, while its EMEA head take's responsibility for Goldman's business outside North America; SunTrust's website and mobile app down for second day.

Kanas, who returned to the banking industry as part of the recapitalization of the failed BankUnited, will relinquish the company's chairmanship at the end of this year.

The Dodd-Frank Act requires that one of the five nonvoting members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council be a state banking supervisor.

Just before the end of summer, several major banks have put new faces in key executive positions.

Freddie Mac is promoting Executive Vice President David Brickman to president and will consider him among possible candidates to be the agency's next CEO after Don Layton retires next year.

The Treasury Department and a key housing regulator are preparing to fill a second possible vacancy atop a U.S.-controlled mortgage giant, a move that could strengthen the Trump administration's hand in addressing unfinished business from the 2008 credit crisis.