TARP Head Gets Nod to Chair CFTC

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Former TARP Head Tapped for CFTC Post: President Obama Tuesday will nominate Timothy Massad, the assistant Treasury secretary who oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to serve as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, Massad will take over an agency in the midst of a massive post-financial crisis overhaul led by current chairman Gary Gensler, whose term ends at the end of the year. As head…