FT Global Banking Summit 2026
1 December 2026 – 3 December 2026
Convene Sancroft, London, United Kingdom
Join three days of debate, dialogue and networking uniting banking professionals, investors, fintech innovators and financial services operators to shape the future of global banking. FT Live’s Global Banking Summit runs main-stage CEO keynotes and panels alongside parallel content streams on leadership, financial crime, capital strategy, AI and technology, payments and the future banking model, plus a Day 3 Performance Lab of leadership simulations. It is held in person at Convene Sancroft in London, with digital attendance also available.
57 sessions · 76 speakers
Media Partner (1)
Sponsors (13)
Elavon · CDW · CostPerform · Adobe · Enfuce · Diebold Nixdorf · Model ML · Freedom Bank Kazakhstan · Kyndryl · Banking Circle · Rogo · Salesforce · Oracle
Association Partners (6)
Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB) · Building Societies Association · European Banking Federation · Association of Foreign Banks (AFB) · Women In Banking And Finance- Uk · Innovate Finance
Exhibitors (2)
Knowledge Partner (1)
Strategic Partners (3)
Supporting Partner (1)
Speakers (76)
- Laith Al-Khalaf Banking and fintech reporter, Financial Times
- Martin Arnold Financial Regulation Editor, Financial Times
- Joshua Franklin US Business Correspondent, Financial Times
- Ortenca Aliaj Banking editor, Financial Times
- Patrick Jenkins Deputy Editor & Chair of the Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign, Financial Times
- Nikou Asgari Digital Markets Correspondent, Financial Times
- Ivan Levingston European deals reporter, Financial Times
- Oliver Ralph Project Publishing Editor, Financial Times
- Ali Miraj Broadcaster, financier, social entrepreneur and DJ
- Naveen Mallela Global Co-Head Kinexys, Standard Chartered Bank
- Richard Davies Allica Bank
- Lloyd Hutchinson Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Enfuce
- Umar Farooq Global Co-Head, J.P. Morgan Payments, J.P. Morgan
- Rishi Khosla Co-founder and CEO, OakNorth
- Ali Niknam CEO, bunq
- Jaidev Janardana CEO, Zopa
- Kristo Käärmann CEO, Wise
- Derya Matras Vice President, EMEA, Meta
- Steven van Rijswijk ING
- George Osborne OpenAI
- Marguerite Bérard CEO Abn Amro, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
- Ron van Kemenade Group Chief Operating Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
- Jennifer Barker Global Head of Payments & Trade and Depositary Receipts, BNY
- Patrick Green Chief Compliance Officer, Banking Circle
- Tanuj Kapilashrami Group Chief Operating Officer, Standard Chartered
- Murat Kalkan Global Head of Digital Banks, BBVA
- Diana Layfield Group CEO, Monzo
- C.S. Venkatakrishnan Chief Executive Officer, Barclays
- Jenna Wright Managing Director, Digital Assets, LMAX Group
- David Rice Chief AI Officer, HSBC
- David Howes Group Head, Compliance, Financial Crime and Conduct Risk, Standard Chartered
- Daniele Tonella CTO, Member of the Management Board, ING
- Paul Thwaite Chief Executive Officer, NatWest Group
- Scott Marcar Chief Information Officer, NatWest Group
- Ruth Leas Investec
- Eran Agrios SVP & GM, Financial Services, Salesforce
- Rafael Cavalcanti Bradesco
- Marc Armengol Chief Executive Officer, Banco Sabadell
- Joe Myers Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Diebold Nixdorf
- Andrew Marshall Chief Financial Officer, Atom bank
- Megan McDonald Chief Executive Officer, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd
- Vakhtang Butskhrikidze Executive Director, TBC Bank Group PLC
- John Schindler Secretary General, Financial Stability Board (FSB)
- Stephen Smart Joint Executive Director of Enforcement & Market Oversight, Financial Conduct Authority
- Chaz Englander Co-Founder, Model ML
- Kirsten Renner Group Chief Information Officer & Head of Group Technology, Nordea
- Vathany Vijayaratna CEO, Deutsche Bank UK & Ireland
- Clare Woodman CEO, Morgan Stanley & Co. International
- Matthew White Chief Executive Officer, VARA
- Aaron Kirchfeld Chief European Business Correspondent, Financial Times
- Simon Foy European Banking Correspondent, Financial Times
- Amit Bhasin Head of Sales- Banking, UK & Western Europe, Oracle Financial Services
- Beata Javorcik Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Carolina Garces Global Head of Financial Crime Risk, Citi
- Christos Megalou CEO, Piraeus Bank
- Daniel Leiter Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
- John Lilly Director of FSI, UK&I & SA, Digital Experience, Adobe
- Michel Bernard Colbert Global Head of Correspondent Banking, Trade & Cash Clearing, Societe Generale
- Phil Adams President of Europe, Houlihan Lokey
- Phil Roberts Deputy Regional Executive and Head of Global Corporate & Investment Banking Division for EMEA, MUFG
- Rob Kaplan Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
- Roland Boekhout CEO & Chairman of the Executive Board, ASN Bank
- Sander den Hartog CEO, CostPerform
- The Rrt. Hon. Sir David Hanson Minister of State, Home Office, UK Government
- Amit Bhaskar Head of Banking Business Unit, Capgemini Intelligent Business Operations
- Antonio Bravo Global Head of AI Transformation, BBVA
- Beth Gaspich Chief Financial Officer, NiCE
- Clotilde L'Angevin Deputy General Manager, Crédit Agricole S.A.
- Fernando Rivas CEO of Corporate & Investment Banking, Wells Fargo
- Paul Ridge Global Head, Financial Services Solutions, SAS
- Richard Oldfield Group CEO, Schroders
- Slawomir Krupa CEO, Societe Generale
- Todd Handcock Chief Commercial Officer, Collinson International (Priority Pass)
- Bob Diamond Atlas Merchant Capital
- Lisa McGeough CEO of DBUSA, Head of Americas Region, Deutsche Bank
- Tom Braithwaite Deputy editor, Financial Times
Agenda
- Chair's introduction 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Opening Keynote interview 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- CEO Keynote interview 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Opening Presentation 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Opening Panel: CEO perspectives on the state of global banking — Returns in a high risk world 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Keynote Interview: The new politics of capital allocation 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Stage 3 - Dual perspective: Reassessing capital allocation after rate shocks, valuation resets and market volatility 1 December 2026 · Capital Strategy Stage
- Stage 2 - Panel: Can banks still control financial crime at scale? 1 December 2026 · Financial Crime Stage
- Stage 1 - Panel: When growth is elusive, where do banks turn? 1 December 2026 · The Leadership Agenda Stage
- Stage 3 - Keynote interview: Inside the modern central bank - funding, investment and transformation 1 December 2026 · Capital Strategy Stage
- Stage 1 - Panel: The new map for financial competition - capital, technology and power 1 December 2026 · The Leadership Agenda Stage
- Stage 2 - Panel: Can regulators and banks keep up with financial crime? 1 December 2026 · Financial Crime Stage
- Stage 1 - Keynote Interview 1 December 2026 · The Leadership Agenda Stage
- Stage 3 - Keynote Interview: The new dealmaking economy 1 December 2026 · Capital Strategy Stage
- Stage 2 - Keynote Interview 1 December 2026 · Financial Crime Stage
- Stage 3 - Panel: Banks vs Asset managers - Is private credit still structurally advantaged? 1 December 2026 · Capital Strategy Stage
- Stage 2: Keynote Interview 1 December 2026 · Financial Crime Stage
- Stage 1 - Panel: The new alliance - where big tech meets banking 1 December 2026
- Stage 1 - Keynote interview: What Basel III endgame means for banks 1 December 2026 · Capital Strategy Stage
- CEO Keynote Interview 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Panel: Macro shocks, disruption and business models - how can banks prepare for the end of the decade? 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Chair's closing remarks 1 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Chair's Introduction 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- CEO Keynote interview 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Panel: Competing in the AI economy - Strategy, power and leadership in global banking 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Keynote Exchange 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Keynote Interview 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Stage 2 - Keynote Interview 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 1 - Dual Perspectives: Banking infrastructure in the age of Al can legacy systems still compete? 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Stage 3 - Dialogue: Neobanks at Scale - Breakthrough or Structural Limit? 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 2 - Panel: The economics of seamless payments - is the overhaul worth it for margins? 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 1 - Panel: Trust, autonomy and the agentic bank of 2030 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Stage 3 - Stage Panel: Profit under pressure and the fight for the customer 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 2 - Dialogue: What are the limits of data optimization, visibility and value extraction today? 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 3 - Dialogue: The next wave of neobanking- can challengers win in the US? 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 1 - CEO Keynote interview 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Stage 2 - Dual Perspectives: Can interoperability win over fragmentation? 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 3 - Dialogue: Neobanks grown up Innovation without the safety net 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 1 - Dual Perspectives: Cloud concentration, vendor power and systemic risk 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Stage 3 - Panel: Now we know the risks, can disruption retain its appeal? 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 2 - Dual Perspectives: Embedded payments and the fight for customer ownership 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 1 - Panel: Al at scale - why the operating model now matters more than the technology 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Stage 2 - Dual Perspective: The seamless payments endgame 2 December 2026 · Payments Stage
- Stage 3 - Keynote Exchange 2 December 2026 · The Future Banking Model Stage
- Stage 1 - Keynote Exchange 2 December 2026 · AI & Technology Stage
- Panel: The effect of agentic Al on the commercial value equation - who pays, who benefits, who gets displaced? 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Chair's closing and welcome remarks to the networking drinks 2 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Chair's Introduction 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- CEO Keynote interview 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Panel:The transformation trade-off - modernising the bank while delivering for customers 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Dual Perspective: Inside modern banking culture - leading when technology, people and performance collide 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Keynote Interview 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Scenario one: Culture vs strategy - when the organisation doesn't follow the plan 3 December 2026 · The Performance Lab
- Scenario two: Inside the Al rollout - control, credibility and consequences 3 December 2026 · The Performance Lab
- Scenario three: The boardroom test - decisions under scrutiny 3 December 2026 · The Performance Lab
- The FT debrief 3 December 2026 · Main Stage
- Closing remarks 3 December 2026 · Main Stage