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World Banking Forum

30 - 31 October 2025  |  Athens, Greece

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Conference

Connecting Innovators Worldwide

World Banking Forum brings together senior banking executives, regulators, and technology leaders for two days of focused discussions and practical insights.
 

Built on independent research and real-world experience, the program delivers clear perspectives on the trends shaping modern banking — from digital transformation, security and payments innovation to regulation, risk, and customer experience.
 

Designed for decision-makers, Forum provides space for meaningful dialogue through keynotes, leadership workshops, panels, roundtables, and satellite networking events.

With its focus on quality content and high-level interaction, World Banking Forum has become a trusted meeting place for decision-makers seeking reliable information, valuable contacts, and informed perspectives.
 

Join an international community of banking leaders,

gain practical insights and connections

to support your next strategic decisions.

Headline Speakers

Autumn Edition 2025

Agenda

Thematic Tracks

30 - 31 October 2025  |  Autumn Edition

Banking and
the World

How to Effectively Manage Geo-Political Crises and Economic Uncertainty​​

Building banking resilience: lessons from recent crises. Future-proof strategies that really work​


Crisis preparedness: integrating scenario planning and stress testing

Current and Future Trends & Challenges

 

Strengthening operational and financial resilience against global shocks​​

Global and EU Regulatory Outlook 2025-2026

Implementation status of key regulations — DORA, MiCA, Basel IV, Genius act, the AI Act, and more — what early enforcement reveals

Banking 2030: What — if anything — will fundamentally reshape banking in the next decade? Will the core of banking really change that much?

How will evolving customer expectations redefine banking products and services globally?

Is there a mindset, governance model, or institutional culture that builds true resilience — even when the next crisis is unknown?

​Building a Future-Proof Bank

 

Beyond Digital Transformation

What's Beyond Digital Transformation?

The Myth of “Cloud-First” — What Banks Learned the Hard Way

What slowed us down, what no one tells you about integration, and what finally turned the corner

Platform Thinking That Works – Rewiring for Agility Without Replacing the Core


Modular APIs, cross-functional delivery, and ecosystem orchestration in action

How banks use platform logic to launch new products without legacy replacement

Microservices in the Real World – Lessons from a Bank That Didn’t Collapse Under Its Own Complexity

What we’d do differently today if we started from scratch

Rip & Replace vs. Adaptive Modernization – What’s Actually Working in 2025?​​

What are the true cost and risk of full core replacement?

What hybrid models are emerging that allow banks to modernize without breaking everything?

How are boards and regulators reacting to long-term transformation roadmaps?

Banking for
People

Invisible, Intuitive, Addictive:
Designing Banking That Doesn’t Feel Like Banking

 

How the best fintechs use psychology, behavior loops, and micro-interactions to create addictive financial experiences

What a "3-second user journey" really means

Has self-service UX gone too far? Are humans making a comeback?

Why frictionless UX sometimes hurts engagement (and how to balance it)
 

Case studies: using behavioral science to create sticky daily habits


We Rewired Our UX Around Emotion, Not Features – Here’s What Changed: 


A radical rethinking of the bank app — based on emotion mapping, not tech trends
 

Engagement metrics pre/post shift: login frequency, NPS, product cross-sell


Designing for Loyalty When Your App Is Their 5th Finance Tool

How to stay relevant in a multi-app world where customers don't think about their bank — until it fails

Why Banking Still Feels Cold – Can Design Save Customer Loyalty?

Banking for All Generations

Payments

Brand Loyalty Is a Payment Experience – Whether You Like It or Not

What Starbucks, Apple, and Revolut teach about turning transactions into trust

Liquidity in the Fast Lane: Managing Risk in an Always-On World

Beyond the Payment: How Embedded

Finance is Displacing Traditional

Revenue Models

Banks as enablers vs. owners: what happens when payments disappear from view?

Real-Time Payments, Real Margins: Can Banks Still Win the Race They Started?

Are real-time rails reshaping the economics of banking — or just raising the cost of staying relevant?

AI and Machine Learning in Payments Through the Hype Lens
 

The Future of Digital Identity in Banking: Navigating EUDIW Integration

When Fraud Thinks Faster Than You: The Dark Side of AI in Payments

Stablecoins, Fragmented Money & the Fight for Monetary Power

Wero Takes Off: Leading the Way in Payment System Conversion

Fraud, Crisis Management, and Cybersecurity

RISK RECODED: Anticipating the Unthinkable, Acting Ahead​

Designing Fraud Resilience Into the Business – Not Just the Tech

How we embedded dynamic risk thinking into product, marketing, and frontline ops

Why risk must sit in product sprints, not just audit committees

Real-world cross-functional response playbook (fraud incident case)

From Synthetic to Signal: How We’re Detecting the Undetectable

Why device, behavioral, and network telemetry are replacing legacy authentication

Beyond Risk Management — Building a Culture of Resilience Across the Bank
 

Deepfakes & Synthetic Everything: Are We Building Systems for Criminals?

Why customer education isn’t enough — and what must change

Innovation and Banking Tech

Platform or Partner? How We Transformed into an Ecosystem-Oriented Bank

Strategic lens: when to build, when to embed, when to walk away

The Infrastructure Behind the Curtain: Building Secure, Scalable, Monetizable Embedded Finance

Architectures that support plug-and-play finance without sacrificing control

The compliance and trust layer: why embedded ≠ unregulated

Banking the Invisible: Winning When You’re Not the Brand the Customer Sees

 

Who’s Shaping the Future of Banking Better? A live debate between experts and AI

What is the #1 mistake banks are making in their technology strategy today? 

What banking function is most likely to be fully automated by 2030?


THE RISE OF AGENTIC AI: When Machines Start Making Moves

Data & AI

Beyond the Black Box: Designing Auditable, Accountable, and Agile AI Systems​

Balancing automation with human oversight in high-stakes decisions

The Prediction Bank: How We’re Using Data to Anticipate, Not React

The biggest cultural shift: trusting the signal over the instinct

AI at Scale: From Sandbox to Systemic Transformation

Our enterprise AI blueprint: teams, governance, use cases

Avoiding ‘pilot purgatory’: how we industrialized our most successful models

 

AI vs Human Judgement: Who Do You Trust with High-Stakes Decisions? And When Do We Pull the Plug?

A customer is denied a mortgage by AI model. The score is low, but the reason isn’t fully explainable. Do you override it? Who gets the

final say — and what happens when regulators ask why?

Lending

Eliminating Bias at Scale – How We

Rebuilt Our Credit Models for a Post-

Bureau World

The case for ditching legacy rulesets:

The challenge of regulatory transparency vs. model complexity

Lending in 3 Clicks: How Embedded

Finance Redefined the Speed-Risk

Equation

How banks can reinsert themselves into value chains they've been cut

out of

When the Models Break: What Rising Rates Taught Us About Real Resilience

Lessons from turbulent markets: who paid, who defaulted, and what models were wrong

What indicators now matter more than income or repayment history?

Credit Models Are Dead – What’s Replacing Them, and Who’s Actually Doing It

Forget theory. Who has already deployed real-time underwriting using behavioral or contextual data — and

what happened?

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7 Main Reasons Why
Global Leaders choose World Banking Forum

  • Smart Networking
    Unique Gamified Networking agenda with a line-up of Satellite Networking Events for quality connections and knowledge exchange
     

  • Deep Dive into Learning and Development
    Real-life experiences and case-study presentations from practitioners. Experts vs. AI sessions. Debates. Round Tables. Workshops: all in main programme

     

  • Practice
    Open microphone with analysis of your cases and feedback from Speakers, Consultants and best experts

  • Access to Industry Leaders
    Premium C-level conference. Top industry voices, world-known practitioners from all around the globe
     

  • Concentrate of Innovation
    Featured presentations on new technologies and Innovations that are transforming Banking

  • Unique Interactive Format
    Well-known to be the most interactive financial conference. All attendees are involved in debates, open panels, round tables and other engaging group sessions

     

  • Global Perspective
    Broaden your understanding of different markets and cultures, and identify potential opportunities for global expansion

Early Bird Tickets

Autumn Edition 2025  | 30 - 31 October | Athens, Greece

Bank / Regulator

EARLY ACCESS

EUR 800

full conference ticket 
+

satellite networking events

Sale ends 15.10.2025

Bank / Regulator

SMART DEAL

EUR 1000

full conference ticket 
+

satellite networking events

+
2 nights accommodation in venue hotel

Sale ends 15.10.2025

Fintech

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EUR 2000

full conference ticket 
+

satellite networking events

Sale ends 15.10.2025

Fintech

SMART DEAL

EUR 2499

full conference ticket 
+

satellite networking events

+

2 nights accommodation in venue hotel

Sale ends 15.10.2025

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