Preconference Day: Summits & Workshops - 2025 Agenda - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
What were the key drivers of the 2025 regulatory agenda? What can we expect for 2026 in the current climate?
What role does the rise of a multipolar global landscape play in cross-border regulation and policy? What are the potential implications on risk strategies and supply chains?
- Katharina Hefter - Managing Director and Partner; Global Compliance and Crisis Management Leader, BCG
What are the expectations for the future of regulation? What are the impacts on banking and financial institutions? Will regulation adjust to the new realities as credit risk and supply chain disruptions evolve? What policies and changes can be expected?
Exclusive technology showcase
How is this reframing the risk landscape? How are financial institutions unpacking digital complexity?
How are risk managers building cyber resilience through integrated security frameworks, preparing for the increasingly complex risk environment anticipated ahead?
How is risk management mitigating sophisticated state sponsored threats and digital warfare through advanced intelligence and proactive monitoring systems?
How is the industry implementing comprehensive third-party risk management frameworks including continuous monitoring protocols and contractual security requirements in addressing the growing challenge of supply chain vulnerabilities?
What does this mean for risk management?
- Mapping the global patchwork of emerging climate and ESG disclosure requirements (TCFD, ISSB, SEC, CSRD)
- Building compliance systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving regulatory frameworks
- Developing strategies to address conflicting regional requirements and reporting standards
- Preparing for increased regulatory scrutiny and enforcement actions in ESG reporting
- Investment priorities in climate transition and strategic capital deployment
- Portfolio construction approaches and forward-looking assessment frameworks
Intensifying AI governance and digital regulations, consumer duty protection and ESG integration
How can insurance companies transform compliance challenges into strategic advantages?
What is the outlook on growth and inflation in an increasingly competitive marketplace?
Examining transformative pricing strategies, more efficient claims processing, higher accuracy in detecting fraudulent claims and overall customer experience transformation
A regulatory milestone and pivotal framework for AI – Is this addressing the real risks?
How is the industry responding?
What opportunities lie ahead that firms can leverage?
The dual nature of AI in the financial services industry
- Expanding risk frameworks to incorporate biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation
- Implementing TNFD recommendations and nature-related disclosure requirements
- Developing methodologies to assess dependencies and impacts on natural capital
- Assess how firms are developing frameworks to assess social impacts of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Create stakeholder engagement approaches that address community concerns
- How are businesses implementing governance structures that balance climate objectives with social responsibility?
What do risk managers need to know?
Industry outlook for 2026
Tips on building a resilience-focused culture, investing in technology, creating a sound operational framework to strengthening your business
As cyber-attacks grow ever more sophisticated, how are companies building digital protection and avoiding exposure?
As global supply networks grow increasingly complex, how are insurers switching gears to keep on top of hidden risks?
How are we tracking with shifting timelines across various jurisdictions?
How can banks maintain internal risk integrity, whilst playing catch up with moving targets?
Use cases of deadline, implementation strategy since January 2025 – how are banks adjusting?
What is the current state of play?
How the power outage that paralyzed Spain and Portugal's critical infrastructure, exposed vulnerabilities and deep flaws in even the most sophisticated business continuity plans
How can the industry learn from this and build on digital resilience to protect banking systems, payment networks, and financial operations in their organisations?
How is this being re-assessed?
Top tips for risk management
IAIS Guidelines, implementation, expectations and industry best practices
From stress-testing portfolios, to adapting underwriting strategies and engaging with policymakers, we’ll discuss how CROs of the largest insurers are strengthening resilience, aligning with evolving regulations, and ensuring adaptability in an increasingly volatile global landscape
- Jacob Palmer - Managing Director and Partner, BCG
Balancing regulatory expectations across both sides of the pond
Top tips across banking with use cases
Recent developments, considerations and decision-making processes
As tokenisation returns to the forefront, what are the regulatory considerations? How is regulation evolving to protect banking and asset management? What are the expectations from global governments?
CROs face a rising threat: AI-powered employees who aren’t real. From deepfake candidates passing interviews to LLM-driven workers extracting internal data, attackers are using synthetic identities to breach trust, not just firewalls. This talk breaks down the new infiltration playbook—real cases, dark web tactics, and a live demo—to help risk leaders stay ahead of threats their models never saw coming
How are firms developing a strategic quantum readiness roadmap that balances immediate preparatory measures with long-term security architecture transformation?Examine how quantum computing capabilities are fundamentally altering encryption standards and creating new vulnerabilities - How do we ensure critical data remains protected?
How will the financial services industry redefine the mandate, increase capability and stakeholder engagement?
- Financial penalties and market value impacts
- Consumer trust erosion metrics
- Developing strategies to address data gaps and inconsistencies in ESG reporting
- Creating systems to manage the increasing volume and complexity of ESG data requirements
Mapping the evolving climate litigation risk landscape across jurisdictions
Capital constraints and pressures, geopolitical uncertainty and rising claims costs
- Building resilient talent pipelines for Insurance risk functions
- Attracting and retaining risk professionals in a competitive insurance landscape
Primary insurers require the reinsurance giants to participate in their underwriting risks of meteorological and other catastrophic impacts to be able to address the market. The reinsurance market is currently heavily in favour of reinsurers both with respect to price and to underwriting terms. The catastrophe bonds market has printed substantial profits since the last serious meteorological event (which occurred September 2022).
Risk management rests on analysis of historic events (such as Miami 1926) and advanced simulation. A number of techniques and critical uncertainties around climate modelling and adverse weather modelling from first physical atmospheric principles as well as mathematical and computational bottlenecks will be investigated.