On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump nominated senior US Treasury official Heath Tarbert as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and US Vice President Mike Pence’s economic adviser, Mark Calabria, as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to the White House.
Tarbert, who is the assistant secretary for international markets at the Treasury, will replace the current CFTC head J. Christopher Giancarlo, whose term expires in April 2019, WSAU reported.
