Elaine Byrne

Elaine Byrne was appointed acting Registrar of Credit Unions on 30 May 2022. Prior to this she held the position of Deputy Registrar of Credit Unions with functional responsibility for Policy and Restructuring. Elaine is Chair of the International Credit Union Regulators Network (ICURN).

Elaine joined the Central Bank in 1987 as a Banking Supervisor in the Banking Supervision Division and has held a number of team leadership positions in regulation and supervision . She represented the Central Bank at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for a number of years up to 2006, while holding responsibility for anti-money laundering policy in the Bank. Elaine has participated in and lead a number of peer reviews on behalf of international organisations (FATF, Council of Europe and ICURN). Elaine was appointed as the Central Bank nominee to the board of the statutory organisation, the Credit Union Restructuring Board (ReBo), on its establishment in 2013.