Factbox: Lacking leadership, U.S. financial regulators could be in slo-mo for a while

Wall Street firms waiting for President Donald Trump to usher in a new era of deregulation may have to wait a significant while longer. The agencies expected to unwind financial rules are so strapped for leadership they may not be able to get much done until they staff up. Nearly every major financial regulator currently has significant leadership gaps, in part because the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate has been reluctant to approve nominations that were made by former President Barack Obama,