The Central Bank of Ireland is the Irish member of the Eurosystem and had been the monetary authority for Ireland from 1943 to 1998,issuing the Irish pound. It is also the country's main financial regulatory authority,and since 2014 has been Ireland's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision.
Julius Bär Group AG,known alternatively as Julius Baer Group Ltd.,is a private banking corporation founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich,it is among the older Swiss banking institutions. In terms of assets under management,Julius Baer is number two among Swiss banks after UBS and the biggest pure-play private bank. The bank's reputation has been marred by various controversies and legal challenges. These include a legal dispute with WikiLeaks in 2008,allegations of aiding U.S. citizens in tax evasion in 2011,and a censure by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in 2020 for deficiencies in combating money laundering. The bank has also been implicated in money laundering scandals involving corrupt Venezuelan officials and has faced investigations for its role in the FIFA corruption case. These controversies have cast a shadow on its legacy and raised questions about its compliance and ethical practices.
Neil David Levin was an American businessman and political figure who was executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from April 2001 until his death during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center later that year.
Sir Callum McCarthy is the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority. He is also the former non-executive chairman of Promontory Financial Group's UK affiliate.
John M. Reich was a Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). He was sworn in on January 15,2001,following an appointment by President of the United States Bill Clinton and served on the FDIC Board for eight years. Reich served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the FDIC from November 2002 until he was nominated on June 7,2005 by President George W. Bush to be Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS),and the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on July 29,2005. He also served as Acting Chairman of the FDIC from July to August 2001. As Deputy Chairman,2001–2005,Reich served as the Chair of FDIC's Audit Committee during a time when the General Accounting Office issued reportable conditions regarding information security at the Corporation.
The New York State Banking Department was created by the New York Legislature on April 15,1851,with a chief officer to be known as the Superintendent. The New York State Banking Department was the oldest bank regulatory agency in the United States.
Ellen Rose Alemany is an American business executive. She is the Vice Chairwoman of First Citizens BancShares. She was formerly the chairwoman of CIT Group.
Ariane de Rothschild is a Salvadorean-French banker,CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group since March 2023. She is the first woman and the first person without Rothschild lineage to run a Rothschild-branded financial institution.
Eugene A. "Gene" Ludwig is an American business leader and expert on banking regulation,risk management,and fiscal policy. From 1993 to 1998 he served as Comptroller of the Currency.
Promontory Financial Group,a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM,is a global consulting firm that advises clients on a variety of financial services matters,including regulatory issues,compliance,risk management,liquidity,restructuring,acquisitions,due diligence,internal investigations and cyber security.
The New York State Department of Financial Services is the department of the New York state government responsible for regulating financial services and products,including those subject to the New York insurance,banking and financial services laws.
Benjamin Meier Lawsky is an American attorney and New York State's first Superintendent of Financial Services serving through June,2015,and former Acting Superintendent of Banks serving through 2011.
IntraFi,LLC,is a privately held firm with a network of more than 3,000 financial institutions,three-quarters of all U.S. commercial banks and thrifts as members. Among its members are 23 of 25 top U.S. banks and 95% of all U.S. community banks. The company’s headquarters is in Arlington,Virginia.
Jane Fraser is a British-American banking executive who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Citigroup,a position she has held since March 2021. Educated at Girton College,Cambridge,and Harvard Business School,she worked at McKinsey &Company for 10 years,rising to partner prior to joining Citigroup in 2004. In 2019,she was named president of Citigroup and CEO of its consumer banking division.
In 2014,$1 billion disappeared from three Moldovan banks:Banca de Economii,Unibank and Banca Socială. This bank fraud in Moldova was a coordinated effort involving all three banks working together to extract as much loan finance as possible from the banks without any obvious business rationale. Ilan Shor,a Moldovan businessman,together with Vladimir Plahotniuc and Serghei Iaralov "masterminded" the scam. Shor was chairman of the board at Banca de Economii up to November 28,2014.
OakNorth Bank is a British bank for scaling businesses that provides loans and both business and personal savings accounts. The bank,which gained regulatory approval in early 2015,was founded by entrepreneurs Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman,who had previously founded Copal Amba. The bank focuses on providing loans of £0.5m–£25m as well as business banking products,and retail savings accounts.
The Banking Standards Board (BSB) was a body established in April 2015 in the United Kingdom,to promote good practice among banks and building societies. The original idea for the body came from the work of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards and the subsequent Lambert Review,which called for a new type of organisation,different from traditional regulators,that would look at banking standards,culture and the root causes of poor behaviour. The BSB was renamed the Financial Services Culture Board and then closed in June 2023.
Mehrsa Baradaran is an Iranian-American law professor specializing in banking law at the University of California,Irvine. Baradaran is a noted proponent of postal banking to expand financial services to underserved communities. Baradaran has also stated that postal banking will not be enough to close the racial wealth gap and more recently,has proposed the necessity of a "Black New Deal."
Anne Finucane is an American banker who was vice chair of Bank of America and chair of Bank of America Europe until retiring from the bank in 2021,after which she became a senior advisor to TPG Rise Climate and chair of Rubicon Carbon. While at Bank of America,she led its socially responsible investing,global public policy,and environmental,social and corporate governance committee.
Kerstin Margareta af Jochnick is a Swedish banker and economist. She is currently serving as a member of the ECB Supervisory Board,and was the former First Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank,the central bank of Sweden.
