WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Thursday approved the nomination of investor Randal Quarles as a Federal Reserve Board governor in charge of banking oversight.

Quarles, 60, who served as undersecretary of the Treasury under former President George W Bush and previously worked in private equity, was confirmed by a vote of 65 to 32.

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