The Senate Banking Committee today advanced a group of five nominees for banking-related posts, including Lisa Fairfax and Hester Peirce as Securities and Exchange Commission members, Amias Gerety as assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions and Jay Lerner as inspector general at the FDIC. Voting “no” to the group of nominees were Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), David Vitter (R-La.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Senate Banking Committee postpones vote on crypto market structure bill
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) delayed a scheduled committee vote on cryptocurrency market structure legislation. More than 10,000 bankers have sent letters to Senate offices in recent days calling on Congress to use the bill to...









