Key themes
Our agenda covers the most critical themes impacting the banking and payments industry today. From technological advancements to regulatory changes, we provide a platform for in-depth exploration and discussion.
Agentic AI & banking strategy
- Agentic AI & changing consumer behaviour
- Banks as agentic orchestrators
- Governing responsible AI
Customer experience & engagement
- AI-powered customer journeys
- Money intelligence & PFM
- Marketing & acquisition in the AI era
Next-gen Payments
- Agentic & A2A commerce
- Cross-border payments
- Wallets, cards & alternative rails
Digital currencies & stablecoins
- A new Euro stablecoin
- Stablecoin regulation
- Tokenized deposits
Counter fraud & financial crime
- AMLR and the new AML authority
- AI in anti-financial crime
- Information sharing in counter fraud
Digital identity
- EU Digital Identity Wallets
- Corporate digital identity & KYB
- Combatting deepfake & synthetic identity fraud
Resilience & operations
- Cloud & digital sovereignty
- The EU Cyber Resilience Act
- Third-party risk management
Open finance
- Bringing open finance to fruition
- Data access & the open finance roadmap
- Building an open payments ecosystem
Lending innovation
- AI in credit risk & decisioning
- Mortgage innovation & rewards
- Embedded invoice financing
Business banking
- Strengthening SME services
- Sustainability & the energy transition for SMEs
- The SME lending & finance market
Startup City
- FinTech pitches
- NatWest’s new venture banking arm
- Driving AI innovation through FinTech ventures