Tim Massad Taps Aitan Goelman For CFTC Enforcement Chief

Timothy Massad, the newly appointed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, made one of his first major decisions at the agency with the appointment of a new enforcement chief Tuesday. Mr. Massad named Aitan Goelman, a Washington, D.C.-based trial lawyer with the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, head of the agency’s enforcement division. He replaces acting enforcement chief Gretchen Lowe and will inherit a full plate of cases, ranging from ongoing probes into manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, currency manipulation and derivatives-rigging investigations. More in the Wall Street Journal here.