The key themes of 2026 edition:

• Savings & Investment Union as a lever for stability, simplification and digital innovation
• Evolution of internal models in light of the new ECB Guide to Internal Models (July 2025)
• Impact of AI on credit management, monitoring and control processes
• Dynamics of corporate crises, Board reporting and governance safeguards
• Management of exchange-rate and interest-rate risks in a highly volatile environment
• Regulatory and business developments regarding securitisations and other market instruments
• ICT & Cyber risk in the current geopolitical and technological scenario
• Updates to the EBA Guidelines EBA/GL/2019/04 and 2025 implementations
• New operational risk taxonomy, data collection and aggregation, COREP reporting
• Towards an integrated framework to overcome the fragmentation of operational risks
• New channels, new products and new risks: how the banking model is changing
• Competition and complementarity with non-banks, ICT providers and new market players
• Macroeconomic, geopolitical and environmental scenarios: impacts on banks’ competitiveness and resilience
• Semplification of European rules: ECB 2025 proposals, ABI 2026, SREP and stress test updates