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Last week, Koen attended The Banking Scene Conference Brussels 2026 at the iconic Tour and Taxis venue, joining more than 450 senior finance professionals for what is widely regarded as Belgium's largest annual banking conference. This year's theme, "Rethinking Relevance," set a deliberately provocative tone. The question at the heart of the day was not how banks should adapt to change, but whether they are doing enough to remain genuinely relevant in a landscape reshaped by

Every so often, an event comes along where the room itself is the story. Point Zero Forum 2026, taking place from 23 to 25 June at Kongresshaus Zurich, is one of those gatherings, and we wouldn't miss it. This year, the Forum frames its agenda around a sharp, timely premise: the foundations of European finance are being rebuilt in 2026. Three inflection points are driving that transformation, and each will be unpacked across three days of plenary sessions, deep dive workshops

Cybersecurity has stopped being a parallel conversation to the one financial institutions are having about payments, data, agentic AI and regulation. It is the same conversation. The threat surface has moved with the rails, the models and the third parties. Any innovation meeting we run for a bank, a PSP, an insurer or an asset manager in the second half of 2026 will sit downstream of what is being said in Brussels this week. What we are listening for The 2026 programme has b

Some events you attend. Others you genuinely look forward to. For us, Money20/20 Europe 2026 falls firmly in the second category, and we're already counting down the days until we land in Amsterdam. From 2 to 4 June 2026, the RAI Amsterdam will once again become the beating heart of European fintech, and we'll be right there in the middle of it. If you're going too, we'd love to find a moment to connect. Why Money20/20 Europe 2026 Matters Money20/20 Europe is widely recognise

Sean is attending the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum 2026 on 11 June 2026 at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin, one of Europe's most dynamic technology and financial services hubs. If you'll be there, we'd love to meet. What the Forum is about A focused, one-day programme at the crossroads of payments, compliance and RegTech. The agenda explores the forces reshaping the European payments ecosystem: instant and real-time payments, A2A rails, open banking, digital identity, agentic

On 22 April 2026, the IMF published a note titled "How Agentic AI Will Reshape Payments." It outlined a future where autonomous AI agents initiate, route, and reconcile transactions with minimal human oversight. That same week, SWIFT reminded the industry that 65 percent of cross-border payment messages still contain unstructured address data, six months before the November 2026 ISO 20022 deadline that will reject those messages entirely. And buried in the EU Instant Payments