Lydia Beyoud

Senate Banking Committee just approved four Trump nominees, including Paul Atkins to chair the SEC and Jonathan Gould as comptroller of the currency. Next stop, full Senate vote...timing TBD

RT @elwasson: NASDAQ falls 4.40% at the open

The former top lawyer at events trading platform Kalshi is leading the DOGE team recently arrived at the SEC. More from @nicola_m_white & me here: https://t.co/kq166fs3Fs

DOGE has landed at the SEC a day after Paul Atkins, Trump’s pick to lead the agency, had his confirmation hearing. https://t.co/GLmSNnN8qr

If you thought the occasional pocket dial was bad, imagine if you'd included the Atlantic's editor in chief on the US's most sensitive national security planning Signal group chat. https://t.co/W3Uc3Odt3i

New, from @nicola_m_white and me: About 10% of the SEC’s 5000 person staff are planning to depart the agency. The divisions of exams, enforcement and the general counsel’s office will see significant departures. More on the @TheTerminal https://t.co/QrCx7kQgZS

Paul Atkins’ nomination hearing to lead the SEC just announced for next Thursday, March 27. Also slated for the hearing at Jonathan Gould to lead the OCC and Luke Pettit as Treasury asst secretary fir financial institutions, per Senate Banking announcement.

RT @JasonLeopold: SCOOP: Christopher Stanley, the cybersecurity engineer who has worked for DOGE and two of Elon Musk’s companies abruptly…

New, with @IBoudway: Nevada's asking federally-regulated exchange Kalshi to stop offering sports & elections trading in its state, under threat of criminal prosecution: https://t.co/LTSlXMsZyT

More changes for the SEC workforce: the GSA is planning to end the agency’s leases in Chicago, LA & Philly. Ending the one in CHI could come with heavy penalties, the agency has told the GSA Staff will telework if new space isn’t found by fall. https://t.co/ZPminTNGEP

The SEC is offering $50K to employees who'll resign by March 21, @nicola_m_white & I report. Employees would have to leave the agency by April 4. Full story: https://t.co/UrUUiKEuGQ

RT @JasonLeopold: SCOOP: A high-ranking SEC official asked enforcement staf in January to declare that a case they wanted to bring against…

RT @nicola_m_white: Cuts at the @CFTC. With @ElleBeyoud https://t.co/hx6U53GPnI

NEW: White House plans to nominate a16z’s Brian Quintenz as permanent CFTC chair. Also planned: Jonathan Gould as permanent OCC & Jonathan McKernan for CFPB director. More on @TheTerminal, With @PaigeSmithNews & @nicola_m_white https://t.co/LlhrEFghjf

RT @MikeDorning: How https://t.co/veXM0g59vO fashioned sports bets into "swaps contracts" and launched sports wagers in 50 US states withou…

In other big crypto regulatory news today, the SEC yanked a Biden-era SEC staff accounting guidance that discouraged banks from working with crypto firms, @nicola_m_white reports. https://t.co/RyANqXfOlQ

Trump has selected Caroline Pham, the junior Republican at the CFTC, to serve as acting chair. More on @TheTerminal https://t.co/yG3Kp0lqUf