Challenge Rowan-Warsh as Trump’s potential Treasury secretary | EUROtoday

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Marc Rowan, a billionaire due to a personal fairness agency, Apollo Global Management, emerges as a contender for the position of US Treasury secretary, writes the Financial Times. He should cope with – they’re nonetheless within the operating – hedge fund supervisor Scott Bessent, the previous governor of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh (credited for the position by Bloomberg), Tennessee senator Bill Hagerty.

Trump desires somebody actually “big” for the job and is trying on the standing the candidate enjoys on Wall Street. In Rowan’s favor not solely is his immense wealth but in addition his outspoken stance in help of Israel.

Rowan referred to as on University of Pennsylvania leaders to resign and donors to shut their checkbooks over an alleged failure to sentence anti-Semitism and hatred. Rowan would doubtless reassure many on Wall Street.

During Trump’s first presidency, Rowan had the position of recommending emergency measures to the administration to tame monetary markets within the early phases of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Rowan’s Apollo has greater than $700 billion in belongings underneath administration. Any transfer into authorities could be complicated for the corporate. Rowan, born on Long Island and finding out on the Wharton School of Business on the University of Pennsylvania, desires to reshape Wall Street: we’re, in his opinion, he advised the Financial Times, on the cusp of a brand new period on Wall Street, through which the facility of the banking sector is lowering.