Jane Fraser, the CEO of CitiMortgage and head of Citigroup's U.S. consumer and commercial banking units, is handing responsibility for day-to-day global mortgage operations to her current mortgage lieutenant, CD Davies.
Davies, a former of head of mortgages at Wachovia Corp. and Capital One, was hired by Citi in March 2014 to head its U.S. mortgage operations. He will now oversee consumer mortgage lending in the U.S. and in 13 countries globally, and will continue to report to Fraser, Citi said Tuesday in a press release.
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Before joining Citi, Davies was CEO of QBE First, a unit of QBE Insurance, and was head of Capital One's mortgage business. He is a former vice chairman and CEO LendingTree and a former president and CEO of Wachovia Mortgage, which was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008.
Citi has a mortgage portfolio of $101 billion in the U.S. and $46 billion globally. It is a third-party servicer of $229 billion in mortgages.