European Central Bank appoints Thomas Broeng Jorgensen as Director General overseeing specialised and less significant banks

The European Central Bank’s Executive Board has appointed Thomas Broeng Jorgensen as Director General for Specialised Institutions and Less Significant Institutions, making him responsible for the direct supervision of banks with specialised business models and for overseeing national supervisors’ supervision of less significant banks. He will take up the role on 1 March 2026. He succeeds Patrick Amis, who has been appointed Director General Horizontal Line Supervision. Jorgensen has served as Deputy Director General responsible for the direct supervision of systemic and international banks since 2021, after several years as Head of Division in the same area; he joined the ECB in 2014 as Head of Division for supervisory policies and previously held senior roles at the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and in Denmark’s economy and finance ministries. Bank-specific supervision at the ECB is organised across three directorate generals aligned to supervised banks’ business models: systemic and international banks, universal and diversified institutions, and specialised institutions and less significant institutions.