Office of Financial Research Director Richard Berner is interviewed at the Reuters Financial Regulation Summit in Washington, US May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
November 6, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of a U.S. government agency created to monitor financial markets after the 2007-2009 financial crisis will resign from the post at the end of this year.
Richard Berner, director of the Office of Financial Research, will be leaving that agency on Dec. 31, the Treasury Department announced on Monday. Berner helped create the agency as a Treasury official under President Barack Obama, and has led it since its creation in 2013.
(Reporting by Pete Schroeder; Editing by Frances Kerry)
