Host sponsor
OVERVIEW
This high-impact, half-day symposium will bring together senior leaders from the financial services sector for a straight-talk session on navigating through a complex risk landscape. The goal: outline key drivers and trends when it comes to risk in the FS sector, where banks and funds are encountering challenges, and how to define and build innovative approaches that protect and enable the business instead of slowing it down.
Participants will engage in discussions designed to unpack the realities of today’s risk landscape in financial services and uncover valuable peer-driven insights. Together, we’ll explore how to build a robust, forward-looking framework that not only mitigates risk but also creates resilience and competitive advantage in a market defined by transparency and trust.
PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM
- Examine the critical forces reshaping the financial services ecosystem when it comes to risk
- Explore emerging practices transforming risk-focused functions (legal, compliance + risk management) and learn how leaders can adopt agile, future-ready strategies
- Share best practices from financial services organizations on building resilience through innovation, technology, and data-driven decision-making
- Cultivate a connected community of legal and business leaders in the financial services sector committed to exchanging insights, accelerating transformation, and driving meaningful change across the ecosystem
Who’s attending
This series is designed for senior professionals from across the financial services ecosystem who are leading on risk and compliance, including:
- General counsel and associate general counsel at financial institutions
- Chief Compliance Officers + compliance leaders
- Leaders responsible for fund governance, reporting, and cross-border structuring
- Professional advisors supporting alternative funds and institutional investors
- Attendance is capped to ensure meaningful interaction and peer-to-peer learning.
STRUCTURE
A half-day, senior-level forum crafted for legal, risk, and compliance leaders, featuring:
- Executive panels
A series of candid conversations with industry leaders on the themes outlined below.
- Fireside chat
A focused discussion with an industry expert on an emerging topic in financial services.
- Networking reception
Curated introductions and informal peer exchange among senior risk, legal, finance, compliance, and advisory leaders.
THEMES + AGENDA
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Panel | Governance in a complex operating and regulatory landscape
- Generative AI and the financial services sector: Drivers + trends, use cases, and emerging risk and compliance considerations
- Regulatory recalibration vs. global fragmentation
- Navigating other evolving and emerging risks (external and internal) in financial services organizations
Panel | leading at the intersection of business + law: the legal function as a driver of innovation in the financial services sector
- The key role legal leaders are playing in leading financial services organizations
- Navigating regulatory shifts and changes in enforcement priorities
- Adjusting to opaque market conditions
- Protecting the business and enabling growth
- Balancing risk + opportunities in tokenization, digital assets and cryptocurrency
FIRESIDE CHAT | INNOVATION IN ACTION
Real-world examples of innovation in action from risk leaders in financial services institutions. In this candid conversation, our speakers will share their hard-earned lessons and practical insights on turning innovation strategy into measurable results.
- The challenges driving change: Key pressures, constraints, and barriers shaping legal and financial innovation today
- From strategy to results: Real-world examples of innovation delivering measurable impact
- Looking across the FS ecosystem: Buy-side and sell-side perspectives on change and innovation
- Turning innovation into action: Practical lessons and takeaways for integrating technology, data, and new operating models into risk and compliance workflows
Panel | Building the RISK MANAGEMENT function of tomorrow
- The evolving role of people, process and technology in driving risk management outcomes (legal, compliance, risk)
- Collaboration between GCs, CCOs + Risk Leaders: Best practices
- Elevating risk + compliance from a checkbox exercise to strategic partnership with the business
- Leveraging the technology + automation revolution in risk management in financial institutions
- Developing talent in a competitive market
CLOSING REMARKS + NETWORKING RECEPTION
host sponsor
GLOBAL STRATEGIC PARTNER
SPONSORSHIP
Partner with The Legal Innovation Forum to engage senior legal leaders and innovators shaping the future of the industry.
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