Trump Plans to Pick Quintenz as Head of US Derivatives Regulator.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, the head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz's a16z crypto arm, to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Quintenz, a former Republican commissioner at the CFTC, advocates for regulatory changes benefiting digital-asset firms and new financial technologies. The White House also plans to nominate Jonathan Gould as Comptroller of the Currency and Jonathan McKernan as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The fate of the CFPB has become uncertain as acting Director Russell Vought has halted much of the agency's work. [Extracted from the article]