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The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, has pushed out the chief US audit regulator, who came under fire for imposing tougher sanctions on big accounting firms during her tenure.
Erica Williams told staff at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Tuesday that Atkins had asked her to resign and that she would be leaving the agency she has led since 2022.
This is a developing story