President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has interviewed Paul Atkins, a veteran financial regulator and eminence grise of conservative financial circles, as a candidate to lead the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the matter. Atkins is a top contender for the job to replace outgoing SEC Chair Gary Gensler, the people said, who weren’t authorized to…
A startup stock exchange aiming to handle trades around the clock won a US watchdog’s approval to operate a venue 23 hours daily, five days a week. 24X National Exchange, which counts Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures fund as a backer, secured permission to start offering sessions that span the US daytime and later add overnight trading, the Securities and Exchange…