Treasury Secretary Paulson appoints a veteran federal interim CFO to oversee the finances of the office that will buy banks' illiquid securities. Sarah Johnson - CFO.com | US Veteran federal CFO Thomas Bloom has been appointed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as interim finance chief of the newly created Office of Financial Stability. Bloom currently is CFO for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. According to the OCC, Bloom will leave his current job for three to four months and report to Neel Kashkari, interim assistant secretary of the Treasury, whom Paulson appointed to head the new office on Monday. Kashkari, whose appointment is subject to Senate approval, is one of Paulson's senior advisers and formerly served as a Goldman Sachs vice president. Paulson has acted quickly to fill the leadership roles of the...
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