Pre-conference Day: Summits & WorkshopsMonday, 16 November 2026 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)

Harmonization initiatives like AMLA and deregulation packages like the EU’s Omnibus on digital, sustainability or investment simplification are reshaping the regulatory and supervisory landscape. Financial institutions are facing increasing accountability across key areas, including financial crime, cyber risk, and the rapid expansion of private credit. At the same time, advances in AI are equipping CROs and CCOs with more predictive, scalable, and cost-efficient tools to manage these emerging risks. This panel discussion explores how leaders at leading institutions need to rethink their risk management and compliance approach, shifting toward AI-enabled, forward-looking models that strengthen controls while keeping pace with regulatory change and market evolution.

• Addressing cross-border regulatory divergence and its impact on risk management frameworks
• Strategies for maintaining compliance amid evolving supervisory expectations across EU jurisdictions
• Geopolitical environment for international corporation
  
  

As AI enters liquidity and interest rate risk decisions, supervisors want to know how those decisions were reached. Many figures that go to ALCO also go to the supervisor, so an AI-assisted number has to hold up in both places.

• Tracing AI-assisted figures back to governed source data
• Keeping human accountability clear in liquidity and IRRBB decisions
• Ensuring consistency between internal decision-making and regulatory reporting
• Questions risk leaders should put to any AI proposal, whether from a vendor or in-house

The decision to pursue FRTB IMA has always involved a trade-off between capital efficiency, implementation cost and regulatory complexity. But that equation is changing. With the UK framework evolving and implementation diverging internationally, banks are reassessing not only where IMA makes sense, but the role internal models should play more broadly where regulatory approval is not pursued.  

This panel will bring together firms taking different paths to discuss how they are navigating these choices: what now drives the IMA business case, what it means for risk management and economic capital where internal models sit outside the regulatory framework, and the challenges of taking a consistent approach across jurisdictions.

In the past, stress tests have been an important tool for regulators and Boards alike to assess risks. However, they face challenge for being resource intensive and for producing tick-the-box results bearing little value or credibility. The regulatory, industry and academic experts, drawing on recent stress test contributions to the LSE Forum on Financial Supervision, will discuss how supervisory and internal stress tests need to evolve to remain a relevant and value-adding element of the risk tool kit.

What does it mean for your business and risk management?

How will the Risk function evolve over the next five years? Join KPMG and industry leaders for a forward-looking discussion on how Risk functions are being reshaped for 2030. The panel will explore how operating models, organizational structures, technology, data, and talent strategies are evolving to help institutions navigate growing complexity while remaining resilient, efficient, and strategically relevant. Panellists will share their perspectives on the key priorities, capabilities, and decisions that will define leading Risk organizations over the next five years.

New regulations and AI are reshaping the economics of bank capital, as deeper global debt markets expand the options for transferring risk and recycling balance-sheet capacity. As product and portfolio economics shift, banks that continuously deploy and redeploy capital toward its highest value uses will capture a premium. This will strengthen shareholder value, expand capacity to fund the next wave of AI investment, build strategic distance from peers, and create a profit-accretive flywheel for first and fast movers.

• The role of internal models: Assess their value, viability and interaction with standardised approaches and the output floor
• Implementation in practice: Discuss the key challenges, strategic choices and lessons emerging as the framework is put into effect
• Preparing for ongoing evolution: Anticipate supervisory expectations, technical amendments and regulatory clarifications

When stable meets stress: managing stress scenarios for issuer, participant and observer banks

How a new era of energy geopolitics is reshaping financial, regulatory and sanctions risk, and what risk leaders can do to respond.  

As mentioned, the session would walk through four key pressure points - the Middle East, Venezuela, Russia and China’s energy strategy, and close with the practical steps risk and compliance leaders can take as the post-Hormuz energy order takes shape.