Donald Trump sacks director of financial regulator

Rohit Chopra led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

US President Donald Trump has sacked the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of Biden administration staff.

Mr Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still in the job since Mr Trump took office on January 20.