Main Conference Day 1 - Leadership Forum - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
- Louis Theroux - Documentarian, Journalist, Author, Broadcaster and Host, The Louis Theroux Podcast
Chief risk officers today face an unprecedented convergence of systemic, interconnected risks that defy traditional risk management frameworks. How are CROs operating across multiple domains and staying on top of this ongoing threat landscape?
- Marie-Claude Nadeau - Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Christine Palmer - Group Chief Risk Officer, ANZ
The real-time risk imperative and the collapse of traditional risk horizons – what do risk leaders need to be acting on now for real-time exposure management?
Exhibition - Play a few hands of poker, dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry, who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
How are Chief Risk Officers protecting institutions from quantum threats, whilst harnessing for competitive advantage?
Exploring new global criminality and the world of cyberattacks
- Misha Glenny - Broadcaster, Cybercrime Specialist and former Central Europe correspondent, The Guardian and BBC
The resilient bank: Operationalising regulatory expectations and protecting critical services in an era of continuous disruption
- Marcus Chromik - Group Chief Risk Officer, Deutsche Bank
- Automated control testing & exception management
- Integration of CCM with enterprise GRC architecture
- Probabilistic risk modelling using factor analysis of information risk (FAIR)
- Integration of cyber value-at-risk (CVaR) with economic capital models
- Deep learning models for net interest margin (NIM) prediction and scenario analysis
- Reinforcement learning for optimal capital allocation and liquidity buffer calibration
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
- Anne Kleppe - Global Lead Responsible AI and Managing Director and Partner, BCG
- Anna Schneebeli - Chief Model Risk Officer, UBS
- Keivan Navaie - Chair Professor of Intelligent Networks, Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications
- Konstantina Kapetanidi - Senior Data and AI Leader, VISA
- How Enterprise Risk Management frameworks are evolving to deliver growth
- Innovative approaches to non-financial risk management
- What the ERM frameworks will look like in 5 years?
- Daniel Butler - Head of EMEA Financial Institutions Industry, Aon
- Serena Fioravanti - Member of the Executive Board and Group Chief Risk Officer, ABN AMRO
- Jason Forrester - Group Chief Risk Officer, Standard Chartered Bank
- Shiro Miyamoto - Head of Corporate Risk Management, MUFG
- Anselmo Marmonti - Vice President, Pre-Sales for Banking Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions,, SAS
Abstract For decades, commercial lending decisions have been guided by the 5 Cs of Credit: Character, Capacity, Capital, Collateral, and Conditions. While these principles remain foundational, today's operating environment demands a more dynamic approach to decision-making.
In an era of economic volatility, changing behavioural dynamics, and increasing regulatory expectations, commercial banks must move beyond periodic credit assessments toward continuous, risk-adjusted decisioning. Advances in data, analytics, and AI are enabling the new generation of capabilities that help banks understand not only where risk has been, but where it is likely to emerge.
This session explores practical innovations transforming commercial banking, including risk-adjusted pricing, early warning systems, portfolio optimization, relationship intelligence, and the use of synthetic data to support scenario generation and model development. Through real-world use cases and industry examples, attendees will see how leading institutions are combining traditional credit expertise with modern techniques to improve decision quality across the lending lifecycle.
Attendees will leave with a framework for transforming commercial banking decisioning to drive profitable growth, enhance resilience through changing economic cycles, and strengthen the alignment between risk, capital, and business strategy.
- Terisa Roberts - Global Director and Global lead Risk Modeling & Decisioning, SAS
Implementing hybrid VaR frameworks that combine variance-covariance approaches (delta-normal method) with historical simulation and Monte Carlo techniques
- Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and microsegmentation for hybrid cloud environments
- Homomorphic encryption and confidential computing for data sovereignty and privacy preservation
Play a few hands of poker, dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry, who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds International 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
Keep an eye out for a sprinkle of magic while you network!
- Tom Elliot - Comedy Magician, Tom Elliot
Decision-making, scrutiny, and change management in high-risk, pressurised environment
- General Sir Richard Shirreff KCB CBE - Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO
- Managing interest rate volatility, inflation pressures, and unpredictable central bank policy shifts in ALM decision-making
- Building adaptive balance sheet strategies to withstand geopolitical disruptions, market dislocations, and evolving customer behaviour patterns
- Stress testing and scenario planning
- Davide Alfonsi - Senior Advisor to the CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Richard Blackburn - Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, HSBC
- Michael Frawley - Chief Risk Officer, Allied Irish Banks (AIB)
The perception that emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) are high-risk destinations for investment stems largely from uncertainty about repayment prospects and limited historical data on default and recovery rates. Statistics published by the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database (GEMs) Consortium, a community of practice comprising all the major multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) that pool their credit risk data, provide more clarity around these risks, separating fact from perception. The GEMs statistics offer valuable insights into the behavior of loans to emerging markets over the past four decades.
This high-level panel discussion, on Day 1 of the RiskMinds International conference, will highlight the importance of transparent, accessible data in helping institutional investors make informed decisions. CROs leading the GEMs Consortium will share the results of 40+ years of EMDE credit risk data. Private sector CROs will share their experience managing risks in EMDEs, including how data can help.
- What (mis)perceptions exist about investing in EMDEs?
- What insights do GEMs statistics provide?
- How can investors use GEMs statistics to better leverage investment opportunities and manage risks in EMDEs?
- Fatoumata Bouaré - Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- General Sir Richard Shirreff KCB CBE - Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO
Examining how jurisdictional differences in FRTB internal model standards are creating compliance complexity, capital arbitrage opportunities, and strategic dilemmas for banks navigating multiple approval processes.
3 x DEMOs
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
Play a few hands of poker dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds International 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
Keep an eye out for a sprinkle of magic while you network!
- Tom Elliot - Comedy Magician, Tom Elliot