Acting SEC Head Remakes Agency Before Trump Pick Confirmed (2)

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency that regulates Wall Street has yet to be confirmed, but the sweeping changes to the watchdog from his temporary stand-in are starting to pile up.

Within a day of becoming interim chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission in January, Mark Uyeda made his first public move: starting a revamp to the regulator’s approach to cryptocurrencies, once a major source of agency battles. It was the first of many changes at the regulator under the acting chair, and a sign of things to come.

Mark Uyeda

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

In less than two months, the ...