White House nominates four to SEC and CFTC as CLARITY Act stalls

  • On November 12, the White House nominated four candidates to fill vacancies at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
  • As of Friday, the SEC only had two commissioners and the CFTC had one commissioner.
  • The nominees are introduced at a time when the CLARITY Act is still stuck in Congress.