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Payments & Digital Assets Risk Forum | May 18, 2026

Integrating Risk, Regulation and Innovation Across Payments, Stablecoins and Digital Currencies

8:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee

OPENING REMARKS
09:00 Positioning payments, stablecoins and digital assets withintheevolving regulatory, technological and risk landscape

9:15 Navigating the Convergence of Traditional Payments, Stablecoins and Digital Assets

  • Understanding the reshaped financial ecosystem amid policy and regulatory reform
  • How tokenization and digital wallets are redefining financial intermediation
  • Managing settlement, custody and counterparty risks in hybrid infrastructures
  • Supervisory priorities for 2026 and cross-agency coordination on digital finance

10:30 Morning Refreshment Break

11:00 Managing Fraud, Financial Crime and Sanctions Exposure in a Digital-Currency World

  • Addressing emerging typologies in crypto, wallets and instant payments
  • Integrating AML and transaction monitoring across on-chain and off-chain environments
  • Managing sanctions and tracing asset movement across multiple blockchain networks
  • Strengthening collaboration between compliance, cyber, and fraud-risk functions

11:45 Understanding Regulatory Expectations for Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits

  • Implications of the Clarity and Genius Acts for banks, issuers and custodians
  • Supervisory focus on reserve management, transparency and systemic risk
  • How tokenized deposits differ from stablecoins – and what both mean for liquidity and balance-sheet management
  • Designing governance and assurance frameworks for digital-asset operations

12:30 Networking Lunch and Peer Discussion Tables

1:45 Strengthening Operational Resilience Across Digital and Tokenized Infrastructure

  • Managing 24/7 operations, interoperability and dependency risk across payment and blockchain networks
  • Ensuring cyber resilience and recovery planning for tokenized environments
  • Third-party and cloud risk in custody and settlement architecture
  • Measuring resilience maturity across legacy and distributed-ledger systems

2:45 Building Trust and Control in Digital Wallets, Custody and Identity Frameworks

  • Establishing digital identity as the cornerstone of secure transactions
  • Managing wallet-level risk, authentication and consumer protection obligations
  • Embedding privacy, traceability and ethical data principles in blockchain-enabled ecosystems
  • Cross-border alignment on KYC, digital identity and reporting standards

3:30 Afternoon Refreshment Break

4:00 Positioning Payments and Digital Assets as Strategic Drivers of Risk and Profitability

  • Linking payments innovation to liquidity, funding and capital strategy
  • Using digital-asset infrastructure for efficiency, transparency and margin optimization
  • Leveraging data from payments and crypto channels for enterprise-wide risk insight
  • Understanding how risk excellence enables profitable innovation and competitiveness

 5:00 Chair’s Closing Remarks

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08:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

08:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks

 KEYNOTE SESSIONS:

09:00 Understanding Global and U.S. Economic Outlook in an Era of Stagflation and Policy Uncertainty

  • Understanding the reshaped financial ecosystem amid policy and regulatory reform
  • How tokenization and digital wallets are redefining financial intermediation
  • Managing settlement, custody and counterparty risks in hybrid infrastructures
  • Supervisory priorities for 2026 and cross-agency coordination on digital finance

09:45 The Regulatory and Supervisory Landscape for 2026 and What It Means for Market Stability

  • Basel Endgame capital and leverage implications
  • Expected liquidity reform and intraday exposure monitoring
  • How deregulation and political turnover reshape supervisory expectations
  • Integrating regulatory change into enterprise strategy and risk appetite
  • Understanding the implications for compliance, treasury, and board oversight

10:30 Morning Refreshment Break & Networking

Non-Financial & Operational Risk

AI & Model Risk

Balance Sheet Management & Treasury

Market & Global Trends

GRC
11:00 Bringing Governance, Risk and Compliance Together to Create an Integrated Control Framework

  • Merging governance, risk, and compliance into unified decision-making
  • Addressing renewed board-level accountability and oversight expectations
  • Linking financial controls, NFR and strategic risk under one structure
  • Governance lessons from recent regulatory actions and enforcement trends

AI
11:00 Making AI Work in Practice and Scaling from Pilot to Enterprise Adoption

  • Real use cases within risk, compliance and finance
  • Managing transition from experimentation to scaled deployment
  • Change-management lessons for embedding AI responsibly
  • Overcoming internal resistance and skill-set barriers

BSM
11:00 Integrating Capital, Liquidity and Funding for a Unified Balance Sheet Strategy

  • Creating dashboards linking capital, liquidity and profitability
  • Aligning treasury, finance and risk incentives
  • Translating regulatory metrics into commercial decisioning
  • Lessons from 2025 market volatility

GEOPOLITICS
11:00 Assessing the Political and Regulatory Landscape Ahead of the 2026 Election

  • Projecting how policy shifts will reshape financial regulation
  • Anticipating leadership changes across supervisory agencies
  • Preparing compliance strategies for multiple outcomes
  • Managing uncertainty around fiscal and monetary direction

PANEL DISCUSSION
11:35 Embedding Accountability and Conduct Culture Throughout the Organization

  • Translating tone-from-the-top into measurable outcomes
  • Designing incentive structures that reinforce ethical behaviour
  • Managing conduct risk in a looser regulatory environment
  • Sustaining engagement once remediation fatigue sets in

PANEL DISCUSSION
11:35 Managing Model Risk for AI and Machine Learning with Greater Transparency and Control

  • Establishing controls for opaque and adaptive models
  • Meeting regulatory documentation and validation expectations
  • Embedding AI into existing MRM frameworks
  • Ensuring ongoing oversight throughout the model lifecycle

PANEL DISCUSSION
11:35 Managing Interest-Rate Volatility and Portfolio Duration in a Changing Policy Cycle

  • Positioning portfolios amid uncertain rate trajectories
  • Hedging and asset-liability strategies under persistent volatility
  • Assessing duration risk within deposits and securities
  • Aligning rate views with earnings objectives

PANEL DISCUSSION
11:35 Embedding Geopolitical Scenarios into Enterprise Risk and Capital Planning

  • Mapping global flashpoints impacting markets
  • Evaluating tariff and supply-chain implications
  • Integrating geopolitical variables into stress testing
  • Strengthening contingency planning

RESILIENCE
12:20 Strengthening Operational Resilience Through People, Process and Partnerships

  • Re-engineering the three-lines model to embed risk within operations
  • Enhancing workforce capability through scenario testing and cross-training
  • Integrating resilience into transformation programmes and vendor ecosystems
  • Measuring the return on investment in resilience initiatives

GEN & AGENTIC AI
12:20 Agentic AI Risk Governance

  • Examination of Agentic AI Risks with a risk and compliance Framework
  • Focus on Controllability and Third-Party Risk
  • Implementation Case Studies
  • Regulatory Adaptation: Guidance on responding to regulatory developments

LIQUIDITY RISK
12:20 Advancing Liquidity Risk Management Through Behavioral and Intraday Analytics

  • Anticipating regulatory updates on liquidity measures
  • Incorporating intraday exposures and deposit-flight analytics
  • Applying behavioural modelling to improve stress realism
  • Aligning liquidity buffers with client behaviour

PRIVATE CREDIT
12:20 Understanding Systemic Risk and Growth Dynamics in Private Credit and Shadow Banking

  • Evaluating data opacity and contagion channels
  • Supervisory attention on non-bank leverage build-up
  • Strategic responses from traditional lenders
  • Potential regulatory convergence with funds

12:55 Lunch Break and Roundtable Discussions

BUSINESS CONTINUITY
1:55 Redefining Business Continuity and Crisis Preparedness for Complex Multi-Hazard Events

  • Designing next-generation continuity plans for cyber, geopolitical and liquidity shocks
  • Table-top simulations and live crisis playbooks
  • Coordinating response and recovery across internal teams and third parties
  • Insights from institutions that endured 2025 disruptions

AI FLUENCY
1:55 AI Fluency: The New Mandate for Responsible Innovation and Risk Resilience

  • Why AI Fluency is critical to successful AI implementation and use
  • Embedding AI fundamentals into risk and control training
  • Defining usage policies and monitoring for responsible deployment
  • Building trust and confidence among non-technical staff

TREASURY & FUNDING
1:55 Optimizing Treasury and Funding Strategies to Balance Cost and Resilience

  • Building diversified, stable funding structures
  • Exploring secured, repo and synthetic financing
  • Managing cost of funds and transfer-pricing frameworks
  • Integrating treasury insights into business planning

PROFITABILITY
1:55 Profit Through Prudence and the Role of Risk in Driving Commercial Value

  • Turning regulatory efficiency into business advantage
  • Using risk insight to support growth and innovation
  • Reframing risk functions as strategic partners
  •  Encouraging board-level ownership of risk intelligence

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Turning Risk Culture and Appetite into Measurable Business Discipline

  • Converting culture assessments into actionable data points
  • Aligning appetite statements with business-line KPIs and growth targets
  • Balancing risk tolerance and profitability in a deregulated landscape
  • Using RCSA evolution to enhance transparency and accountability

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Improving Data Quality, Traceability and Lineage to Strengthen Model Reliability

  • Establishing robust data-quality metrics and traceability
  • Managing real-time data flows while containing cost
  • Linking data lineage to model validation confidence
  • Benchmarking governance maturity across peers

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Enhancing Stress Testing to Strengthen Enterprise-Wide Resilience

  • Integrating liquidity, credit and capital scenarios
  • Using AI to accelerate scenario design and computation
  • Moving beyond compliance to strategic insight
  • Enhancing collaboration across functions

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Keeping Ahead of Financial Crime and Sanctions in a Fragmented Global Environment

  • Responding to cross-border enforcement collaboration
  • Embedding AI into AML and KYC monitoring
  • Identifying emerging typologies in trade and digital channels
  • Strengthening alignment between financial crime and reputation risk

3:15 Afternoon refreshment break

ENTERPRISE RISK
3:45 Building a Holistic Enterprise View of Risk Across All Functions

  • Integrating credit, liquidity, operational and compliance assessment
  • Leveraging AI to unify risk data and enable real-time visibility
  • Translating disparate reports into a single institutional view
  • Case studies of successful convergence projects

MODEL VALIDATION
3:45 Modernizing Model Validation for the AI Era

  • Applying innovative validation techniques for machine-learning models
  • Leveraging synthetic data and automation for continuous testing
  • Anticipating regulator expectations for explainability and control
  • Aligning validation resources with model complexity

ENTERPRISE STRESS TESTING
3:45 Expanding the Scope of Enterprise Stress Testing

  • Exploring broader impacts of Geopolitical Events
  • Considering impacts to Liquidity and Capital Contingency Plan triggers and Actions
  • Assessing impacts to Business Strategies and Initiatives
  • Assessing operational readiness of key capabilities ( i.e. Settlement, Sanctions, Third Party Risks, Cyber)

FRAUD
3:45 Preventing Fraud in an AI-Enabled Economy

  • Understanding convergence of fraud, cyber and AML risk
  • Deploying machine-learning for early detection
  • Managing synthetic identity and social-engineering threats
  • Coordinating industry and law-enforcement responses

FIRESIDE CHAT: INFOSEC
4:20 Managing Data Privacy, Cyber Resilience and Digital Ethics in a Connected Ecosystem

  • Protecting data integrity while enabling innovation
  • Balancing AI advancement with privacy and ethical considerations
  • Strengthening collaboration between CISOs and risk leads
  • Preparing for supervisory scrutiny of digital-ethics programmes

FIRESIDE CHAT: INFOSEC
4:20 Managing Data Privacy, Cyber Resilience and Digital Ethics in a Connected Ecosystem

  • Comparing financial-sector MRM maturity with technology peers
  • Lessons in lifecycle monitoring and retraining
  • Avoiding pilot paralysis through standardised production
  • Building agile governance that scales with AI demand

BASEL ENDGAME
4:20 Adjusting to Basel Endgame and Evolving Capital Adequacy Requirements

  • Reconciling fewer formal rules with greater scrutiny
  • Ensuring agility amid policy oscillation
  • Monitoring state-level and international divergence
  • Defining meaningful compliance success metrics

DEREGULATION
4:20 Evolving Compliance Practices for a Deregulated but Politically Sensitive Market

  • Evaluating data opacity and contagion channels
  • Supervisory attention on non-bank leverage build-up
  • Strategic responses from traditional lenders
  • Potential regulatory convergence with funds

REGULATION
4:55 Supervisory Expectations for NFR Programs in 2026 and How Firms Can Get Ahead

  • Insights from regulators on control effectiveness and governance trends
  • Addressing weaknesses observed in recent examinations
  • Building proactive, forward-looking risk identification processes
  • Evaluating resilience maturity post-implementation

AI REGULATION
4:55 Preparing for Global AI Regulation and Supervisory Expectations

  • Reviewing the global regulatory landscape for financial AI
  • Anticipating the documentation and transparency to needed ensure AI systems are safe and legal
  • Implementing necessary documentation and controls to establish audit readiness
  • Mapping forthcoming AI legislation and preparing for cross-border supervision of AI governance

ALM AUTOMATION
4:55
Integrating ALM Strategy & Automation for Margin Preservation

  • Modelling deposit behaviour and duration with real-time analytics
  • Automating liquidity monitoring through dashboards and intraday data
  • Applying AI to forecasting, hedging, and funding decisions
  • Building agile, data-driven teams through fintech partnership

INNOVATION
1:35 Driving Innovation in Financial Products While Balancing Risk and Return

  • Reviewing evolution of synthetic repo, SRT and structured credit
  • Embedding control frameworks in product-development cycles
  • Balancing speed-to-market with risk oversight
  • Exploring investor appetite and transparency demands

 5:30 Chair’s Closing Remarks and Networking Drinks Reception

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08:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

08:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks

 KEYNOTE SESSIONS:

09:00 Using AI in Risk Management to Separate Hype from Practical Opportunity

  • Reviewing how firms are applying AI beyond proof-of-concept
  • Understanding where AI delivers measurable return versus operational noise
  • Building controls and accountability for algorithmic decisioning
  • Re-defining the risk professional’s role in an AI-augmented environment

09:45 Managing Strategic Risk Amid Regulatory Shifts and Changing Market Expectations

  • Balancing risk appetite and growth in a deregulated but uncertain landscape
  • Anticipating supervisory priorities for the next 12–18 months
  • Integrating strategic and operational risk for enterprise resilience
  • Building board-level oversight that links regulation, innovation and profitability

10:30 Morning Refreshment Break & Networking

Non-Financial & Operational Risk

AI & Model Risk

Balance Sheet Management & Treasury

Market & Global Trends

11:00 Enhancing Third-Party and Outsourcing Governance for End-to-End Resilience

  • Moving beyond vendor risk to ecosystem risk management
  • Applying proportionate oversight to critical and non-critical providers
  • Managing concentration and geographic risk in supplier portfolios
  • Integrating resilience requirements into procurement and contracts

11:00 Managing Model Risk for AI Governance and Machine Learning with Greater Transparency and Control

  • Understanding the “Black Box” problem and why opacity matters for lending or investment decisions.
  • Preventing algorithmic bias via active auditing systems
  • Defining the necessary human oversight roles within automated AI decisions
  • Managing the risk of AI mistakes and hallucinations

11:00 FIRESIDE CHAT: Reviewing Credit Quality and Market Exposures as Macroeconomic Conditions Tighten

  • Assessing corporate, consumer and CRE credit trends
  • Monitoring early warning indicators across portfolios
  • Integrating credit data into liquidity and capital forecasting
  • Adjusting underwriting standards for late-cycle risk

11:00 Understanding the Impact of Deglobalization and Onshoring on Financial Markets

  • Assessing macroeconomic implications of supply-chain re-orientation
  • Identifying sectors most exposed to deglobalisation risk
  • Evaluating capital-flow and FX-volatility trends
  • Incorporating trade and political dynamics into stress scenarios

11:35 Developing Regulatory Readiness for Non-Financial Risk Reviews

  • Understanding current supervisory focus and testing expectations
  • Preparing documentation, evidence and data narratives
  • Conducting internal mock-reviews to identify weak points early
  • Creating a feedback loop between audit, compliance and business teams

11:35 Integrating AI and Stress Testing to Enhance Scenario Design and Forecasting Control

  • Applying machine learning to expand scenario coverage and realism
  • Combining historical and synthetic data to stress portfolios
  • Measuring performance of AI-driven stress tools against traditional methods
  • Aligning results with governance and board reporting

11:35 Addressing Commercial Real Estate Refinancing and Portfolio Concentration Risk

  • Quantifying exposure to high-risk sectors and maturities
  • Stress testing for valuation declines and refinancing gaps
  • Evaluating collateral quality and geographic distribution
  • Considering regulatory expectations for CRE risk management

11:35 FIRESIDE CHAT: Managing Climate and Environmental Risk as Insurers and Investors Re-price Exposure

  • Assessing concentration of assets in climate-sensitive regions
  • Understanding insurance-withdrawal implications for lenders
  • Incorporating physical and transition risk into capital planning
  • Leveraging data for portfolio heat-mapping and disclosure

PANEL DISCUSSION
12:10 Strengthening Risk Accountability and Ownership Across the Three Lines of Defense

  • Embedding clear ownership from first-line to board
  • Aligning accountability frameworks with incentive structures
  • Addressing skill gaps and overlapping responsibilities
  • Practical approaches for measuring effectiveness of the model

PANEL DISCUSSION
12:10 Evolving Model Validation Practices for Next-Generation Models

  • Managing continuous validation for adaptive and self-learning systems
  • Using challenger models and parallel runs for benchmarking
  • Understanding expectations around explainability and bias control
  • Prioritising resources based on model criticality and complexity

PANEL DISCUSSION
12:10 Optimizing Balance Sheet Resilience Through Scenario Planning and Capital Buffers

  • Aligning capital allocation with plausible stress outcomes
  • Testing interconnected risks across credit, liquidity and rates
  • Embedding reverse-stress testing into strategic planning
  • Balancing shareholder return with prudence and optionality

PANEL DISCUSSION
12:10 Exploring Digital Assets and Payments Innovation as Risk and Opportunity

  • Tracking progress toward U.S. market-structure and stablecoin rules
  • Assessing operational and counterparty risks in crypto
  • Evaluating tokenised payments and settlement options
  • Implementing effective control frameworks

12:55 Lunch Break and Roundtable Discussions

1:35 Building a Stronger Risk Culture Through Communication and Leadership Visibility

  • Translating risk strategy into relatable messaging for all levels
  • Encouraging transparency and challenge within teams
  • Training leaders to model appropriate risk behaviours
  • Tracking cultural change through surveys and qualitative feedback

1:35 Third Party Risk Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

  • Session details TBC

1:35 Embedding ESG and Sustainability Metrics into Treasury and Funding Decisions

  • Integrating climate and sustainability data into asset allocation
  • Evaluating green funding instruments and disclosure obligations
  • Managing reputation and regulatory risk around ESG claims
  • Linking sustainability goals to cost of capital and investor relations

11:35 Navigating the Growth of Private Credit and Alternative Financing Models

  • Exploring regulatory responses to non-bank credit expansion
  • Comparing return profiles and risk transmission channels
  • Evaluating partnership opportunities between banks and funds
  • Understanding liquidity and valuation challenges in private markets

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Using Scenario Analysis to Prepare for Emerging Operational Risks

  • Designing forward-looking scenarios for complex, cross-functional threats
  • Linking scenario testing to capital and liquidity assessments
  • Coordinating response planning across technology, finance and HR
  • Turning scenario outcomes into concrete mitigation actions

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Creating Enterprise Model Inventories and Risk Taxonomies for Greater Transparency

  • Developing inventories that capture ownership, purpose and validation status
  • Tagging AI and ML models with risk tiers and dependencies
  • Enabling portfolio-level oversight of model concentration risk
  • Using inventory insights to drive prioritisation and resource planning

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Adapting Capital and Liquidity Strategies to Evolving Supervisory Expectations

  • Preparing for potential recalibration of liquidity coverage and NSFR
  • Reviewing capital planning frameworks under Basel Endgame evolution
  • Enhancing dialogue with regulators on model-based approaches
  • Integrating supervisory feedback into funding strategy

PANEL DISCUSSION
2:30 Embedding Strategic Risk Practices to Support Decision-Making and Long-Term Resilience

  • Integrating strategic and emerging-risk identification into planning
  • Aligning business strategy with risk appetite and metrics
  • Using board engagement to bridge risk and performance dialogue
  • Monitoring reputation and policy risk in dynamic markets

3:15 Positioning Operational Risk Functions for the Next Wave of Digital Transformation

  • Adapting roles and frameworks to support agile delivery and innovation
  • Using automation to improve incident reporting and root-cause analysis
  • Embedding risk control in product and technology design
  • Preparing operational-risk teams for AI-driven environments

3:15 Operationalizing AI Risk Management Frameworks and Lifecycle Oversight

  • Integrating AI risks into the existing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) taxonomy
  • Establishing automated and manual continuous monitoring thresholds for key AI performance metrics
  • Developing specific Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) questions for data provenance and model explainability
  • Designing specialized compliance training for the first line of defense

3:15 Re-imagining Treasury Operating Models for Digital Speed and Strategic Insight

  • Implementing automation and predictive analytics in daily liquidity management
  • Consolidating systems for real-time visibility and decisioning
  • Building cross-functional teams combining risk, data and technology
  • Re-training treasury professionals for a digital environment

3:15 Managing Digital Transformation and Technology Change Without Creating Hidden Vulnerabilities

  • Balancing innovation velocity with control strength
  • Addressing obsolescence, technical debt and data migration risk
  • Coordinating risk oversight during large-scale transformations
  • Establishing clear ownership of end-to-end technology risk

3:50 Afternoon refreshment break

16:20 The Future of Risk Management in an Integrated and Innovative World

  • What risk leadership will look like by 2027 and beyond
  • Redefining value creation through integrated risk thinking
  • Balancing AI, governance and profitability in decision-making
  • The evolution of the Chief Risk Officer as a strategic business partner

16:50 Redefining the Purpose of Risk Leadership in 2026

  • Elevating risk functions as commercial strategists
  • Balancing profitability, trust and compliance
  • Leveraging data, AI and human judgement for foresight
  • The evolving profile of tomorrow’s Chief Risk Officer

 5:20 Chair’s Closing Remarks and End of Risk Americas 2026!

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