Demographics of applications for regulatory approval for senior financial roles released

Report breaks down applications for regulatory approval by age, gender and country of origin. The Central Bank remains concerned by the continued evidence of a lack of diversity at senior level in regulated firms. Some small improvements in banking, asset management and credit union sectors, but overall percentage of applications for regulatory approval for female appointments to senior level roles is unchanged from 2016, at 22%. Today, the Central Bank of Ireland publishes an analysis of over 3,600 applications received in 2017 for approval to occupy senior roles within regulated firms in Ireland (under the Fitness and Probity regime).   The report breaks down the applications for regulatory approval by gender, age and country of origin.  This is the second time that the Central Bank has published such data, having published in 2017 a  breakdown by gender of applications received in the period 2012 to 2016. In the banking, credit union and asset management sectors there have been increases of between 5 and 6% in the proportion of women being offered senior level roles in 2017. A dis-improvement in the securities and markets sector, which has the largest number of...