New York Senate Confirms New Top Financial Regulator

New York Senate Confirms New Top Financial Regulator
The New York Department of Financial Services officially has a new head.The state Senate confirmed Adrienne Harris, a former federal official and professor, to run the Wall Street regulator on Tuesday. Harris has been serving as the acting Superintendent of NYDFS since her nomination in August 2021.Harris was a special assistant to the Barack Obama White House on economic policy, as well as a senior advisor to then-Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Sarah Bloom Raskin, currently a nominee to be Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve. She was also recently on the board of the Digital Dollar Foundation,…