[Two-time consecutive Peer Forum guest] "Mark Calabria, who headed up a key mortgage regulator during the first Trump administration, has taken a post involving financial reviews of government entities, according to multiple reports.

Calabria told members of the Exchequer Club on Wednesday that he is working with the Office of Management and Budget, and will be a liaison to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Free-market think tank Cato Institute, where he most recently was a senior advisor, confirmed he has left the organization.

[Washington Post reporter Andrew] Ackerman said Calabria will be 'bringing all the independent agencies into OMB' and will be at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until Jonathan McKernan, a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board member and Trump's CFPB nominee, can be confirmed. The CFPB and Calabria had not responded to inquiries about the details at deadline."