If nominated and confirmed, Omarova will be the first full-term Comptroller since Joseph Otting, who headed up the federal bank regulator between 2017 and 2020. Former Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks took over the regulator last year, overseeing a handful of guidance letters and conditional approvals allowing crypto companies to have greater access to banking services and letting banks interact more closely with cryptocurrencies.
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