BANKING
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Bank Regulator Reports Confirmed: The White House is acknowledging publicly that James E. Gilleran, California’s bank superintendent since 1989, is President Bush’s leading candidate to be the next comptroller of the currency. Reports that Gilleran was the Administration’s choice for the job, which involves supervising the nation’s biggest banks, surfaced earlier in the week. Gilleran would succeed Robert L. Clarke, whose nomination for a second term was rejected by the Senate.
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