Perhaps lost a bit in the recent comings and goings of Mary Schapiro, Elisse Walter, Mary Jo White, Robert Khuzami and Lanny Breuer was the SEC's announcement on Tuesday of this week that Vincente L. Martinez has been named Chief of the Enforcement Division's Office of Market Intelligence (OMI). Martinez rejoins the SEC following a stint at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he has served since 2011 as the first director of the CFTC's new whistleblower office. Prior to joining the CFTC, Martinez was one of the SEC's first assistant directors in OMI, which was created in 2010.

As discussed here, OMI was a pet project of Khuzami's after he joined the SEC in 2009. It was created to oversee and drastically improve upon the SEC's “collection, analysis, risk-weighing, triage, referral, and monitoring of the hundreds of thousands of tips, complaints, and referrals that the agency receives each year,” Khuzami said in a 2009 speech. OMI was recently described in a DealBook article as having become "the central intelligence office for the whole agency,” with a staff of more than 40 former traders, exchange experts, accountants and securities lawyers.

Lori Walsh, who has been serving as the Acting Chief of OMI, will become Deputy Chief of the office after Martinez returns to the SEC in February 2013. 

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