Donald Trump taps ex-Bitfury crypto exec to lead US banking regulator

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Trump nominated Jonathan Gould to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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The White House on Feb. 11 submitted its nomination of Gould to the Senate. If confirmed, he’d be the Comptroller of the Currency for a term of five years.

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Gould is the former chief legal officer of blockchain infrastructure firm Bitfury and is currently a partner at the law firm Jones Day. He previously served as the OCC’s senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel from late 2018 to mid-2021 in Trump’s first administration, and prior to that was a director at BlackRock from 2014 to 2018.

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