Agenda

8:30 – 9:00

Welcome and registration

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome remarks and introduction by Wim Mijs, EBF CEO

9:15 – 9:20

Opening remarks by Ayako Suwa, IBFed Chair, Japanese Bankers Association

9:20- 9:40

Keynote speech: How can banks help deliver sustainable growth in a more multi-polar world?  by Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets

9:40- 9:55

Keynote speech: Why the world needs strong banks – more than ever by Christian Sewing, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank and EBF President

9:55- 10:20

Keynote speech: To improve is to change by Klaas Knot, Chair, Financial Stability Board

10:20- 11:15

Competition and coordination in the global banking sector 

This panel of the IBS aims to discuss the dual challenge - for global banks, supervisors, and supranational authorities - of tackling competition in a deglobalized world, and coordination of efforts to ensure global financial stability. Banks are not only competing between themselves but also with non bank financial institutions. Yet, ensuring competition under coordinated global policy standards is not the only struggle faced by the banking sector. Given its importance in the current global agenda, the panellists will also assess the role of the banking system in delivering a significant part of the pressing financing needs for the green and digital transitions while ensuring financial stability at global and regional level. Lastly, the recent events of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse will also give an opportunity to reflect on lessons learnt for the key players of the global financial system, namely the need to join forces for stability purposes. 

Panel discussion: Competition and coordination in the global banking sector 

  • Cornelia Holthausen, Director General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability, European Central Bank
  • Ashok Bhatia, Director of the Offices in Europe, International Monetary Fund
  • Rob Nichols, President and CEO, American Bankers Association
  • Meghan Milloy, Managing Director of Strategic Communications, Financial Services, Public Affairs, FTI Consulting 

Moderated by Maria Demertzis, Bruegel Senior fellow and Professor at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

11:15- 11:30

Coffee break

11:30- 12:45

The Climate imperative: Addressing the global climate change and transition needs

This panel will explore what role banks play in addressing the global climate change and sustainable transition needs in the context of the current energy transition, deglobalization, fragmentation, protectionism and macroeconomic situation. The panelists will focus on the following questions:

  • How are banks incorporating climate change considerations in their business strategies and risk management? What are key challenges in the current context and what is needed to facilitate progress in the short, medium and long term?
  • How can reporting standards help deliver on sustainability commitments and facilitate risk management? How to ensure that the sustainability reporting rules across jurisdictions work well together to empower investors and incentivize an accelerated pace of transition?
  • What role does transition finance play in climate risk mitigation and how can it be reflected in the risk management and supervisory approaches? What is the risk of regulatory arbitrage in the absence of harmonized regulatory response around the globe to climate risks? 

Keynote interview with Tracey McDermott, Steering Group Chair, Net-Zero Banking Alliance, interviewed by Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA and EBF Chair of the Sustainable Finance Expert Group 

Panel discussion with: 

  • Sue Lloyd, Vice Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board
  • Bongi Kunene, Managing Director at Banking Association South Africa 
  • Thomas Allen, Deputy Head of the Climate Change Centre of the Banque de France & Senior Advisor to the Head of the NGFS Secretariat
  • Miriam S. Wrobel, Senior Managing Director, Global Leader of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability, FTI Consulting 

Moderated by Burçak Inel, Director of Financing Sustainable Growth, EBF

12:45- 13:00

Keynote speech: Global issues in financial services are best addressed at global level  by Jean-Paul Servais, Chairman, Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), and Chair of IOSCO Board

13:00- 14:15

Lunch break

14:15- 15:35

Digital finance

A major strategic topic for banks globally is their future in the digital economy. Sweeping changes are shaping the digital finance landscape, including in customer behavior and expectations, new technologies, increasing competition with non-banks, and external dependencies from all types of critical providers. The impact of digital innovations such as Central Bank Digital Currencies, crypto assets and tokenisation, data sharing and open finance, cloud computing and AI on banks and banking is still largely unknown. Moreover, as digitalization introduces new market actors in financial services, the role that these challengers, especially Bigtechs, play in the new financial ecosystem, both as providers of financial services but also as providers of critical technology for banks’ digital innovation calls for a deep rethinking around regulation and supervision. At the same time, cyber-security and resilience, the cornerstone of digital innovation, becomes more complicated in a geopolitically volatile and deglobalizing environment.

 

This session will bring together a unique C-level perspective on the challenges and opportunities of digitalization of finance.  The panel will explore what is the road agead for banks, and discuss how they can leverage digitalisation to innovate, create new business opportunities and better service their customers to stay competitive in the digital world, while mitigating risks.

Keynote speech: Investing in banking supervision by Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Panel discussion: Digital finance: How will banks fit in the world as we will know it?

  • Anna Bligh, CEO, Australian Banking Association 
  • Anthony G. Ostler, President and CEO, Canadian Bankers Association
  • Pietro Sella, CEO, Sella Group
  • Sunil Mehta, CEO, Indian Banks’ Association 

Moderated by Alexandra Maniati, Senior Director, Innovation & Cybersecurity, EBF

15:35- 15:55

Coffee break

15:55- 16:10

Spotlight presentation: Tokenisation – the future of money and the capital markets?  by Bob Wigley, Chairman, UK Finance 

16:10- 16:20

Concluding remarks by Eelco Dubbeling, Chairman, EBF Executive Committee, and General Manager, Dutch Banking Association 

16:20- 18:00

Networking cocktail

Speakers include:

Klaas Knot

Chair, 

Financial Stability Board

Mairead McGuinness

European Commissioner for Financial Stability,

Financial Services and Capital Markets

Christian Sewing

Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank

and EBF President

Ayako Suwa

Ashok Bhatia

Maria Demertzis

IBFed Chair,

Japanese Bankers Association

Director of the Offices in Europe,

International Monetary Fund

Bruegel Senior fellow and Professor at the School of Transnational Governance,

European University Institute

Tracy McDermott

Antoni Ballabriga

Sue Lloyd

Steering Group Chair,

Net-Zero Banking Alliance

Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA,

EBF Chair of the Sustainable Finance Expert Group

 

Vice-Chair,

International Sustainability Standards Board

Anthony G. Ostler

Cornelia Holthausen

Bongi Kunene

President & Chief Executive Officer, 

Canadian Bankers Association 

Director General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability,

European Central Bank

Managing Director,

Banking Association South Africa

Jean-François Despoux

Anna Bligh

Sunil Mehta

Deputy CRO,

Société Générale

CEO, 

Australian Banking Association 

Chief Executive, 

Indian Banks’ Association

Rob Nichols

Agustín Carstens

Jean Boissinot

President and CEO,

American Bankers Association

General Manager,

Bank for International Settlements

Deputy Director, Financial Stability, Banque de France, and Head of the Network for Greening the Financial System Secretariat 

Jean-Paul Servais

Meghan Milloy

Bob Wigley

Chairman, Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), and Chair of IOCSO Board

Managing Director of Strategic Communications, Financial Services, Public Affairs, FTI Consulting 

Chairman, UK Finance

Miriam S. Wrobel

Pietro Sella

Eelco Dubbeling

Senior Managing Director, Global Leader of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability, FTI Consulting

CEO, Sella Group

Chairman, EBF Executive Committee, and General Manager, Dutch Banking Association 

Thomas Allen

Deputy Head of the Climate Change Centre of the Banque de France & Senior Advisor to the Head of the NGFS Secretariat

Contact

This event is organized by the European Banking Federation (EBF)

For more information on the event content please contact:
Annet Kragt |  Events Officer | EBF

a.kragt@ebf.eu | +32 476230012

About EBF

The European Banking Federation is the voice of the European banking sector, bringing together national banking associations from across Europe. The federation is committed to a thriving European economy that is underpinned by a stable, secure and inclusive financial ecosystem, and to a flourishing society where financing is available to fund the dreams of citizens, businesses and innovators everywhere.