Late breaking  news:

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced more hires for senior positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Raj Date was picked to serve as associate director for research, markets and regulations for the bureau, which is part of the sweeping financial regulatory overhaul that Congress approved last summer. Date has worked at Capital One Financial, Deutsche Bank, and the Cambridge Winter Center, a nonprofit organization.

Patricia McCoy will head the mortgage- and home-equity markets team. McCoy previously worked as the director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She also was a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown in Washington, D.C., and served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board.