Radhakrishnan to leave the CFTC

Head of clearing and risk understood to be moving into private practice

Ananda Radhakrishnan, head of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Clearing and Risk, is understood to be leaving the regulator to head into private practice.

Speaking at the Risk Derivatives Clearing Europe conference in London yesterday, John McPartland, senior policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said that Radhakrishnan was leaving the CFTC and will join an external law firm.

"We're losing a very bright young man who used to be a key part of the