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Impact of AI on Economy, Finance and Supervision 5-6 November 2025
Bank of Finland and Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority are pleased to announce an upcoming seminar focused on a critical and timely topic:
The Impact of AI on Economy, Finance and Supervision
This seminar will bring together central bankers, financial supervisory authorities, as well as industry experts to explore the transformative effects of artificial intelligence on the economy and financial sector and to discuss its practical implications for financial supervision.
Programme and speakers
Times in Finnish local time (EET, UTC +2)
Wednesday 5 November
9:30-9:45 Opening remarks, Tuomas Välimäki, Member of the Board, Bank of Finland
9:45-10:30 AI and Financial Stability: FSB Findings and Supervisory Considerations, Sibel Oezcan, Member of Secretariat at the Financial Stability Board, focusing on AI-related risks, operational resilience, and supervisory preparedness for non-bank financial intermediation, FSB
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 The Bank of England’s approach to AI, Mohammed Gharbawi, Senior Advisor, Bank of England
11:45-12:30 AI in Finance and Supervision: From Market Practices to Supervisory Applications, Tuomas Ritola, Chief Specialist, FIN-FSA
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 TBC Juha Vesanto, Chief AI Officer, OP Financial Group
14:15-15:00 Using AI for customer benefit and internal efficiency in a retail bank, Heikki Henttu, Head of AI, Nordea
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 SAFE artificial intelligence methods in finance (its application to credit lending, asset allocation and cyber risk management), Paolo Giudici, Professor of Statistics, University of Pavia
16:00-16:30 Regulation of AI in Finance, Dirk Zetzsche, Professor in Financial Law, ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance), Universite du Luxembourg
16:30-17:15 EU AI Strategy: Excellence – Trust – International, Juha Heikkilä, Adviser for International Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, European Artificial Intelligence Office, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission
Thursday 6 November
9:00-9:30 VolkerCTA - Prototyping Agentic AI in the Context of Central Banking, Sebastian Lutterer, AI- and Dashboard-Developer, Deutsche Bundesbank
9:30-10:00 TBC, Theodoros Mastrokostopoulos, Team Lead in Supervisory Technology - Technology and Innovation Division, European Central Bank - Single Supervisory Mechanism
10:00-10:30 AI in Banking Supervision: Challenges and Lessons from Sweden, Jakob Knejp, Senior Advisor, Mid-size and Small Banks, Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority
10:30-11:00 From AI Ambition to Execution: AI, Governance and Change Management at DNB, Muriël Serrurier Schepper, Program manager AI, De Nederlandsche Bank
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Avalanch: an adversarial validation tool to compare populations of loans, Alberto Cancela Carollo, Supervisor, Banco de España
12:00-12:30 The use of GenAI in assessment of WTP transition, Mirjam Keizer, Supervisor Operational and IT risks, De Nederlandsche Bank
12:30-13:00 Monetary policy communication according to AI, Philipp Lieberknecht, Principal Economist, Deutsche Bundesbank
13:00-14:00 Lunch
End of seminar
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
Please note that registration is required to participate. A link to the registration page will be added here shortly.
For questions related to the seminar, please contact Event Coordinators at fs.events@bof.fi