Elizabeth McCaul

Elizabeth McCaul is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank.[1] McCaul previously served as Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York, the head of the New York State Banking Department and held several senior executive positions at Promontory Financial Group, an IBM company. She founded the New York office of the strategy, risk management, and compliance consulting firm, and most recently served as global head of strategy for Promontory and interim chair of Promontory Financial Group Europe.[2]

Elizabeth McCaul
41st New York Superintendent of Banks
In office
June 7, 2000 – June 10, 2003
GovernorGeorge Pataki
Preceded byNeil Levin
Succeeded byDiana Taylor
Personal details
Spouse(s)Frank Ingrassia
Children7
Alma materBoston University

Career

McCaul began her career in 1985 as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where she specialized in energy and project financing.[3]

New York State Banking Department

In 1995, she joined the New York State Banking Department as chief of staff to Neil D. Levin, a former Goldman Sachs colleague who had been appointed Superintendent of Banks. Ms. McCaul became Acting Superintendent in 1997 upon Levin's departure to head the New York State Department of Insurance, and she continued in that capacity for two years. While serving as Acting Superintendent, McCaul established the Banking Department's Tokyo office, its second permanent office outside the U.S.[4]

New York Governor George Pataki nominated McCaul in December 1999 to become Superintendent.[5] Her nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate on June 7, 2000.[6]

As Superintendent of Banks, McCaul regulated and supervised New York State's 3,500 financial institutions, including foreign institutions with offices in New York; New York banks with multinational operations; and state-chartered banks, savings and loan, trust companies, mortgage brokers, credit unions, and finance companies.[7]

During McCaul's tenure as Banking Superintendent, her office established a New York State Holocaust Claims Processing Office to assist and advocate on behalf of Holocaust survivors and their heirs who were trying to recover assets wrongfully held or stolen in World War II. Her office blocked a proposed merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998 until the banks promised to cooperate on the return of victim's assets.[8][9]

McCaul oversaw initiatives to ensure that the New York banking system functioned well in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.[10]

McCaul also was a key negotiator, along with several state attorneys general, of a $484 million multistate settlement with Household International Inc. regarding Household's residential mortgage lending practices. The settlement, which provided approximately $37 million in restitution to up to 25,000 New York borrowers, was at the time the largest predatory lending settlement ever recorded in the U.S.[11]

In March 2003, McCaul announced that she would step down as Superintendent after a short transition period, citing personal reasons. She had recently given birth to her fifth child. At the end of her tenure as Superintendent, McCaul had served eight years with the Banking Department and six years as its chief.[12][13]

Promontory Financial Group

In September 2003, McCaul joined Promontory Financial Group, then a new consulting firm established by former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig. She established the Washington, D.C.-based firm's New York office, which serves many of the nation's largest global banks and investment houses, and was its partner-in-charge until 2016. In that year, she became CEO of Promontory Europe, responsible or overseeing and directing the firm's operations in continental Europe. She became global head of strategy and chair of Promontory Financial Group Europe in 2019.[14][15] [16]

During 2012 and 2013, McCaul headed a federally mandated review of mortgage foreclosure practices at Bank of America.[17]

In 2013, the Vatican selected Promontory Financial Group to conduct a forensic review of the Vatican Bank, which McCaul led.[18] Within 48 hours of being hired, Promontory had a 25-person team in place in the bank president's ceremonial offices, charged with examining thousands of electronic and paper documents, including some that were written in Latin.[19]

In July 2016, McCaul discussed the Vatican's financial reforms at the annual meeting of the Leadership Roundtable, a Catholic 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes best practices and accountability in church management, finances, and administration.[20] McCaul said that in 2013, the year the Vatican hired Promontory, confidence in the church and its bank had been undermined by a lack of transparency, internal controls and adherence to international regulatory practices. The financial reforms advocated by Pope Francis helped to make the church and its institutions more transparent, better governed, compliant with regulations and sustainable, she said, adding, “the days of ripping off the Vatican are over."[21]

On July 11, 2019, the European Central Bank announced it had named McCaul to a non-renewable five-year term as a member of the Supervisory Board, the single supervisory mechanism for the European Central Bank. The Supervisory Board plans and carries out the European Central Bank's responsibilities in overseeing the Euro zone's 114 largest banks.[22]

Personal

McCaul is a graduate of Boston University.[23] She and her husband, Frank Ingrassia, are the parents of seven children.

Affiliations and honors

McCaul is a trustee of Hofstra University and of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and is a member of the board of directors of Accion International, a global nonprofit that supports microfinance initiatives and financial inclusion.[24][25][26] As New York State Banking Superintendent, she served as chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors from 2001 to 2002 and was a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council from 2002 to 2003.[27]

With her husband, McCaul received the 2012 Humanitarian Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's New York City chapter.[28]

References
  1. "New Members of the Supervisory Board Appointed," European Central Bank press release, July 11, 2019
  2. European Central Bank official biography, found at http://www.promontory.com/Bios.aspx?id=1039
  3. Liz Moyer (March 28, 2003). "McCaul Steps Down as N.Y.'s Top Bank Regulator," American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  4. James R. Kraus (December 26, 1997). "N.Y. Regulator to Set Up Tokyo Office; Move Said Unrelated to Asia Turmoil,"American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  5. Jacqueline S. Gold (March 16, 2000). "New York Regulator Proves She's Not Just 'Acting'," American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  6. Lynne Montgomery (December 2000). "Recent Developments Affecting Depository Institutions," page 41, FDIC Banking Review. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  7. Jacqueline S. Gold (March 16, 2000). "New York Regulator Proves She's Not Just 'Acting'," American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  8. Elizabeth McCaul (January 19, 2001). "Superintendent Elizabeth McCaul Testifies On Proposed Claims Resolution Process For Holocaust Victims' Claims Against Swiss Banks". Archived from the original on 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  9. Sanger, David (March 26, 1998). "Swiss Banks Face Deadline And Sanctions". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  10. Staff Reporter (March 31, 2003) "New York's Bank Regulator Will Give Up Her Post Soon," Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  11. New York State Banking Department Press Release (October 11, 2002).Governor Pataki, Attorney General Spitzer Announce Historic $484 Million Settlement with Household International Inc., Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  12. Liz Moyer (March 28, 2003). "McCaul Steps Down as N.Y.'s Top Bank Regulator," American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  13. Staff Reporter (March 31, 2003). "New York's Bank Regulator Will Give Up Her Post Soon," Wall Street Journal.. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  14. European Central Bank official biography
  15. https://www.promontory.com/our-firm/our-story
  16. Business Wire (June 1, 2011). "Promontory Expands European Presence with Addition of Brussels Office," Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  17. Jeff Horowitz and Maria Aspan (March 15, 2013). "How Promontory Financial Became Banking's Shadow Regulator," American Banker. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  18. Carol Matlack (July 2, 2013). "A Money-Smuggling Scandal Threatens to Sink the Vatican Bank," New York Times.
  19. "Vatican Bank agrees landmark tax treaty with Italian regulators," The Guardian, April 2, 2015
  20. https://leadershiproundtable.org/who-we-are/
  21. "Aiding the Church's Mission Through Better Management," Catholicphilly.com, July 2016: http://catholicphilly.com/2016/07/news/local-news/aiding-the-churchs-mission-through-better-management/
  22. "ECB Hires Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker as Watchdog," Reuters, July 11, 2019. Found at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-banks/ecb-hires-ex-goldman-sachs-banker-as-watchdog-idUSKCN1U626J
  23. http://www.promontory.com/Bios.aspx?id=1039. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
  24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  25. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory news release, "Three New Trustees Elected to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board," December 11, 2014
  26. Accion press release, "Accion Welcomes Two New Board Members," June 22, 2015, found at Accion.org
  27. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-02-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  28. https://jdrf-nyc.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/40thAnnualPromiseBallEventInformation/tabid/358867/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
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