AI & Trusted Finance
Day 1 · 23 November 2026 · 14 sessions
AI-native banking, governance, model risk, data foundations, and the path from pilots to enterprise value.
International Banking Summit · 23–27 November 2026
Banking Frontier 2026
Five days in Amsterdam, one published theme a day, two rooms running in parallel throughout.
Day 1 · 23 November 2026
AI & Trusted Finance
Day 2 · 24 November 2026
Identity & Cyber Resilience
Day 3 · 25 November 2026
Payments & Digital Assets
Day 4 · 26 November 2026
Customer Growth & Platform Banking
Day 5 · 27 November 2026
Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030
The line above is a drawing, not a measurement. All five of its segments are the same height on purpose, so no day can look bigger than another. Nothing on this page is a recording.
Five themes, as plain chapters
Each chapter opens with one segment of the same drawing and then gets out of the way. The words are the programme's own.
Identity & Cyber Resilience
Day 2 · 24 November 2026 · 16 sessions
Digital identity, fraud prevention, authentication, cyber resilience, and real-time trust across banking journeys.
Payments & Digital Assets
Day 3 · 25 November 2026 · 20 sessions
Instant payments, wallets, tokenization, Open Finance, digital assets, and the future of money movement.
Customer Growth & Platform Banking
Day 4 · 26 November 2026 · 23 sessions
Omnichannel journeys, AI-assisted service, smart branches, SME banking, and platform-based growth.
Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030
Day 5 · 27 November 2026 · 16 sessions
Post-quantum readiness, sovereign AI, and the technologies shaping banking to 2030.
Session details
Ten published sessions, two from each day, with their own times, rooms and attributions exactly as the official timetable gives them.
Day 1 · 23 November 2026
AI governance & model risk
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rita Gnutti · Head of Internal Validation and Controls · Intesa Sanpaolo · Italy
Day 1 · 23 November 2026
Data, AI enablement & intelligent automation for bank operations
09:30–10:00 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Gladson Baby · VP & Director of Data & AI Enablement · Fifth Third Bank · US
Day 2 · 24 November 2026
Corporate digital identity management
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Stephan Wolf · Chair of the Board · Verifiable.Trade Foundation · Germany
Day 2 · 24 November 2026
Digital trust in AI-led banking · risk, audit and cyber oversight at board level
09:30–10:00 · Room A · Main Stage
Dr. Björn Lenzmann · Member of The Supervisory Board · DenizBank · Turkey
Day 3 · 25 November 2026
Instant payments and interoperability
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Domenico Scaffidi · CEO & Founder · DS Payments Ltd · UK
Day 3 · 25 November 2026
The new payments landscape · instant, interoperable, invisible and built on trust
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Paul Walvik-Joynt · VP Commercialization Real-Time Payments · Mastercard · Norway
Day 4 · 26 November 2026
Human-AI banking experience
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria
Day 4 · 26 November 2026
AI-augmented service and product-led banking at scale
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Speaker TBC
Day 5 · 27 November 2026
Systemic Risk in European Banking 2027–2030: Geopolitics, AI and Structural Vulnerabilities
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Ulf Holmberg · Functional Lead and Senior Analyst · Swedbank · Sweden
Day 5 · 27 November 2026
Preparing banks for systemic threats: cyber, geopolitical disruption and operational concentration risk
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Naji Freiha · Risk Appetite, Strategy and Governance · Konsilium · France
Speakers, beside their sessions
A small portrait, a prominent name, and the session that person is published against — one from each day.
Rita Gnutti
Executive Director, Internal Validation and Controls, Group Chief Risk Officer Area
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy
AI governance & model risk
Day 1, 23 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rita Gnutti · Head of Internal Validation and Controls · Intesa Sanpaolo · Italy
Stephan Wolf
Chair of the Board, Verifiable.Trade Foundation; Leadership Team, LEI Worldwide
LEI Worldwide / Verifiable Trade Foundation, Germany
Corporate digital identity management
Day 2, 24 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Stephan Wolf · Chair of the Board · Verifiable.Trade Foundation · Germany
Domenico Scaffidi
CEO and Founder / Independent Consultant, Global Payments Innovation Practice
DS Payments Ltd, United Kingdom
Instant payments and interoperability
Day 3, 25 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Domenico Scaffidi · CEO & Founder · DS Payments Ltd · UK
Rudolf Stefanich
Senior Manager - Product Insights
Bitpanda / New Design University, Austria
Human-AI banking experience
Day 4, 26 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria
Ulf Holmberg
Functional Lead and Senior Analyst
Swedbank, Sweden
Systemic Risk in European Banking 2027–2030: Geopolitics, AI and Structural Vulnerabilities
Day 5, 27 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Ulf Holmberg · Functional Lead and Senior Analyst · Swedbank · Sweden
Attending
In person
Both rooms run at Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam, across all 5 days, 23–27 November 2026.
Online
Online participation runs alongside the in-person forum. Current passes and terms appear only on the official registration page.
Real event scenes
Three photographs from previous Zenith Group events, in their own colour, uncropped and unfiltered.
Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers
- Venue
- Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers
- Address
- Hoogoorddreef 66a, 1101 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Nearest station
- Bijlmer ArenA · 4-min walk
- From Schiphol
- Train Schiphol → Bijlmer ArenA, approx. 15 min
- Parking
- P1 ArenA · paid, on-site
- Accessibility
- Step-free access; accessible WCs on every floor
- Registration desk
- Ground floor lobby, signposted on arrival
- Published times
- Central European Time (CET)
Questions and legal
Does the waveform show anything real?
No. It is a drawing. All five of its segments have exactly the same height, so it cannot suggest that one day is bigger, busier or more important than another, and it is hidden from screen readers. The day names beside it are ordinary text.
Is anything on this page recorded or streamed audio?
No. Nothing here is a recording, a podcast, a transcript or a live feed. The forum's own online participation is described on the official registration page.
What is on each day?
AI & Trusted Finance, Identity & Cyber Resilience, Payments & Digital Assets, Customer Growth & Platform Banking, Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030 — one theme per day across 5 days, 89 sessions, two rooms, all times Central European Time (CET).
Can I attend online?
In-person and online participation are both available. Current passes, terms and any group conditions are shown on the official registration page.
Where do the photographs come from?
Previous Zenith Group events. Each one is captioned as such, and Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026.
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