Sources: Elizabeth Warren wins Senate Banking Committee seat

Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It’s a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations. …

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Warren’s ascension to the panel gives her influence over regulators and the industry that non-panel members don’t enjoy.

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