Kristin Johnson emerges as a leading candidate to be new US FDIC chair, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) – Kristin Johnson, a Democratic commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has emerged as a leading candidate to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing a person familiar with the matter.

(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)