Politics

Biden lines up Raskin for top Fed banking regulator role

White House closes in on appointments that will break a current stalemate

President Biden is considering Sarah Bloom Raskin for a top role at the Federal Reserve as part of a slate of three nominees for central bank board seats, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration is eyeing Raskin, a former Fed governor and onetime Treasury Department official, to become the central bank’s vice chairwoman of supervision, the government’s most influential overseer of the US banking system, the people said.

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