The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new chief innovation official comes to the agency from the fintech world.
Acting director Mick Mulvaney recently named Paul Watkins director of the bureau’s freshly minted Office of Innovation, where he will oversee the agency’s efforts to encourage consumer-friendly innovation, keeping with one of the bureau’s priorities it pursued through its Protect Catalyst initiative.
Find out more about Watkins and his background.