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Finra names new CEO to replace Ketchum

Robert W. Cook, the former director of the division of trading and markets for the SEC from 2010 to 2013, will take over the reins of the brokerage industry regulator.

Finra has turned to a former top Securities and Exchange Commission official, Robert W. Cook, to replace the outgoing Richard Ketchum as chief executive.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. on Monday morning said it had tapped Mr. Cook, 50, the former director of the division of tradin

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