Former Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC) Paul Atkins will be nominated by President-Elect Trump to chair the SEC. Experienced at the SEC, Atkins served as one of the agency’s commissioners from 2002 to 2008 and worked as an SEC staffer during the 1990s.

If confirmed, Atkins will replace outgoing SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who announced last month that he would step down from the SEC chairmanship on January 20, a year ahead of the expiration of his term.

Currently the CEO of Patomak Partners, Atkins is a proponent of eased market regulation. He is also a supporter of cryptocurrency. In announcing the Atkins nomination, President-Elect Trump said Atkins “believes in the promise of robust, innovative capital markets that are responsive to the needs of investors and that provide capital to make our economy the best in the world.”

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