The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed Andrew Bowden as director of the agency's Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), which conducts the national exam programme. Bowden will succeed Carlo di Florio, whose departure was announced last week. Bowden joined the SEC in November 2011 as national associate director for the OCIE's investment adviser/investment company examination programme. He was appointed deputy director of the OCIE in September 2012 re