Brian Quinn, currently chairman of Scottish football club Celtic, was head of supervision at the Bank of England between 1986 and 1988.
Ota Kaftan, the central bank's head of supervision, says: "No one can say that Komercni is fully provisioned".
The head of enforcement role became vacant after Tracey McDermott was promoted to head of supervision at the start of the year during a reorganisation of the regulator.
Timothy W. Long, head of supervision for midsize and community banks at the office of the comptroller, said regulators were monitoring lenders closely.
As a commissioned examiner and head of supervision in the Fed's Kansas City district in the 1980s, I am a veteran of financial crises involving energy, real estate and agriculture in the Midwest and West.
Richard Spillenkothen, head of supervision at the Fed until 2006, attributed its reluctance to "a desire not to inject an element of contentiousness into what was felt to be a constructive or equable relationship with management".
When the Bank of England's deputy head of supervision for banks and insurance companies, Paul Fisher, warns, as he did this month: "As the world increasingly limits carbon emissions, and moves to alternative energy sources, investments in fossil fuels – a growing financial market in recent decades – may take a huge hit"?
Clive Adamson, head of supervision at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), met with incredulity among MPs on the Treasury select committee when he initially refused to concede that the appointment of Flowers – branded a "financial illiterate" by the committee's chairman, Andrew Tyrie – had been a mistake.
It is perhaps something of a surprise that the regulator did not give him a formal interview to become chairman in 2010 but he did have a fireside chat with Graeme Hardie, an adviser to the FSA, and Clive Adamson, who is still head of supervision at the new regulator.
