Matthew Elderfield

Matthew Elderfield was appointed to the position of the Head of Financial Regulation in the restructured Central Bank in January 2010. In his current role, Matthew Elderfield will also combine the roles of Head of Financial Regulation and Consumer Director.

Prior to taking up this role, he was Chief Executive of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) from 2007-2009. The Bermuda Monetary Authority is the integrated financial regulator for Bermuda's financial markets, with responsibility for supervision of insurance and reinsurance, banking, funds, investment firms and trust companies. Mr Elderfield represented the BMA on the Technical Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

Prior to joining the BMA, he spent eight years at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a Head of Department in a variety of posts, responsible for exchange and clearing house supervision, for secondary markets and listing policy and for banking supervision. In this latter role, he represented the FSA on the Basle Accord Implementation Group and chaired the FSA panel responsible for economic capital model review.

Before joining the FSA, Matthew Elderfield established the European operations of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and held posts at the London Investment Banking Association, the British Bankers Association and a Washington-DC based consultancy firm, the Institute for Strategy Development.

He is the Consultant Editor of 'A Practitioners Guide to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive' and has contributed chapters on exchange, derivatives and capital adequacy regulation for a number of publications.

Matthew Elderfield graduated from Cambridge University in 1988 with a Masters degree in International Relations, and earned a Bachelors degree in Foreign Service, cum laude, from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University in 1987.

He is a British citizen and is married. His interests are cycling, Leeds United and music.