For Wall Street, McHenry's Retirement Means Losing a Key Ally in Raucous House

Also, Chopra's ready to start designating non-banks; FDIC looks to hire new firm to probe workplace misconduct; bank CEOs get ready for long day in Senate

It was the surprise that wasn’t. Even when Financial Services Chairman Patrick McHenry recently said he was running for re-election, few believed it was a final decision. So his announcement today that he would leave Congress after this term was met with a lot of head nodding and I-told-you-so in financial policy circles. But there was also a good amoun…