White pushes bigger SEC role in regulating U.S. Treasuries

The Securities and Exchange Commission should play a bigger role in regulating the market for U.S. Treasuries, the head of the SEC said on Monday in what appeared to be a push for a bigger role for her agency in a market largely overseen by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. "I believe our regulation of the equity markets can and should be deployed to strengthen the U.S. Treasury market," SEC Chair Mary Jo White said in prepared remarks to a conference on the health of the government b