Acting SEC Head Remakes Agency Before Trump Pick Confirmed (2)

March 18, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency that regulates Wall Street has yet to be confirmed, but the sweeping changes to the watchdog from his temporary stand-in are starting to pile up.

Within a day of becoming interim chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission in January, Mark Uyeda made his first public move: starting a revamp to the regulator’s approach to cryptocurrencies, once a major source of agency battles. It was the first of many changes at the regulator under the acting chair, and a sign of things to come.

Mark Uyeda
Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

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