BPI's Baer Talks Bank Capital, His Crypto Skepticism and D.C.'s Anti-Wall Street Views

Also, a top manager plans to leave SEC; Treasury research office discusses financial risks

Being one of the banking industry’s main faces in Washington may sound like a cushy job where you wine and dine lawmakers, dole out political contributions and squire CEOs around to meetings at the Fed and other regulators. But that’s not how Greg Baer, or his group, the Bank Policy Institute, operates. Formed in 2018 with the merger of  two other trade…