Cyril who?

A year into his job, the new financial regulator is largely anonymous in public. But what's he been up to behind the scenes?

A speech on effective banking and securities regulation, even in the ultra-modern settings of the Convention Centre in Dublin’s financial heartland, isn’t the most enticing proposition for non-banking experts.

Yet, a year ago, members of the media descended on the venue for the early-morning conference to hear the first public words of Cyril Roux. The deputy governor of the Central Bank for financial regulation had taken up his role just a few days ...