Ronald Cathcart

Ronald J. Cathcart (born 1952) is a Canadian-born American banking executive and financial regulator. He is currently Managing Director, Head of Risk Practice at Promontory Financial Group. Cathcart is also a member of the U.S. Risk Committee of the board of directors of French corporate investment bank Natixis, and is a former U.S. representative to the Policy Development Group of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Cathcart has previously served as the Head of Enterprise Risk Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Chief Enterprise Risk Officer at Washington Mutual. He has held risk management positions at the executive level at a number of other North American banks including the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank One, and the Royal Bank of Canada. Cathcart served as Washington Mutual's highest-ranking risk management officer in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

His tenure was notable for his efforts to reduce sub-prime loan origination and tighten underwriting standards at the bank as market conditions deteriorated. In early 2008, Cathcart was terminated by Chairman and CEO Kerry Killinger after escalating concerns about weak controls and rising losses to the bank's board of directors and regulators.