美參議院批准證交會主席任命

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton, the Wall Street attorney chosen by President Donald Trump, to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The vote was 61-37 to give Clayton the job of running the independent agency that oversees Wall Street and the financial markets. Nine Democrats and one independent, Maine's Angus King, joined 51 Republicans in backing the nominee.

Clayton, a partner in the prominent law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, has done significant legal work for Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs and an array of other financial giants and corporations.

In line with Trump's pledge to ease many rules that flowed from the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law, a Clayton-led SEC would be expected to take a comparatively loose approach to regulation. At his confirmation hearing in March, Clayton sought to reassure senators that he would act only in the public interest.美國參議院星期二批准由川普總統挑選的華爾街律師傑伊·克萊頓出任美國證券交易委員會主席。

證券交易委員會負責監督華爾街和金融市場，九位民主黨人，一位獨立黨派參議員與共和黨議員一道，以61比37票的表決通過了克萊頓的任命。

克萊頓是著名律師事務所“蘇利文-克倫威爾”的合夥人之一，曾經爲包括高盛公司在內的衆多華爾街金融巨頭和大公司提供過出色的法律服務。

川普總統再三呼籲要取消2010年《多德-弗蘭克》金融改革法案中部分內容。克萊頓領導下的證交會預計在法規方面會採取相對放鬆的態度。克萊頓在三月份批准任命的聽證會曾向參議員保證，他會把公衆利益作爲行動的唯一準則。