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SEC Chair Clayton leaving post as top financial regulator

by Marcy Gordon
| November 17, 2020 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Clayton, a former Wall Street lawyer who has headed the Securities and Exchange Commission as the financial markets’ top regulator during the Trump administration, is leaving the position at year’s end, the SEC announced Monday.

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