Ex-Bear Sterns executive moves to Fed

From The Associated Press via money.cnn.com:

Former chief risk officer at the defunct brokerage is now overseeing U.S. banks for the Federal Reserve.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former chief risk officer at investment bank Bear Stearns Cos., which nearly collapsed in March, is now a senior official of the Federal Reserve division that supervises U.S. banks.

Michael Alix, who worked at Bear Stearns for 12 years and was its senior risk manager since 2006, was named a senior vice president in the bank supervision group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to an announcement by the Fed.

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