ESRB@15: may you stay forever young

Registration and coffee

Welcome address

Christine Lagarde, in her capacity as Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), will open the conference with a welcome address.

Panel discussion: Us in the mirror: How to ensure that the EU financial system contributes to a strong EU?

The EU is currently confronted with a challenging macroeconomic environment, coupled with a complex geopolitical landscape. This highlights the need for a financial system that effectively contributes to a strong EU. This panel will discuss how to achieve this.

Chair: Christine Lagarde, Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board and President of the European Central Bank

Special speakers:

• Klaas Knot, Former President, De Nederlandsche Bank
• Jean-Claude Trichet, Former ECB President and ESRB Chair

Keynote speech

Hélène Rey, Lord Raj Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School, will deliver a keynote speech.

Response by Luc Laeven, Director General Research, European Central Bank

Reception

Registration and coffee

Keynote speech

Olli Rehn, Governor Bank of Finland, ESRB First Vice Chair, will deliver a keynote speech.

Response by Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director, Bruegel

Panel discussion: Don’t look back in anger: how the EU financial system has changed in the last fifteen years and how to continue to develop its resilience for the future

The EU financial system faced severe strain and lacked sufficient resilience to the global financial crisis, which led to an ambitious global regulatory reform. This panel will explore the key lessons learned and how to ensure that the EU financial system continues to be resilient to emerging challenges.

Chair: Olaf Sleijpen, President of De Nederlandsche Bank and Chair of the ESRB Advisory Technical Committee

Panellists:

• Gabriel Bernardino, Chair, Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority, Portugal

• Andrea Enria, Former Chair of the ECB’s Supervisory Board and of the European Banking Authority

• Stefan Ingves, Former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank and Senior Fellow, Swedish House of Finance

• Verena Ross, Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority

Q&A

Winner of the 2026 Edition of the Ieke van den Burg prize

The ESRB’s Advisory Scientific Committee awards the Ieke van den Burg prize to recognise outstanding research conducted by young scholars on a topic related to the ESRB’s mission. Xu Lu (University of Washington) and Lingxuan Wu (NYU Stern, New York University) will present their award-winning paper entitled “Banking on Inattention” which has been selected as the winner of the 2026 edition of the prize.

Chair: Loriana Pelizzon, Chair of ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee and Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt

Lunch

Keynote speech

Boris Vujčić, Vice President of the European Central Bank, will deliver a keynote speech.

Response by Stephen Cecchetti, Vice-Chair of ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee and Rosen Family Chair in International Finance, Brandeis International Business School

Panel discussion: ¿Qué será, será? The financial system in the next fifteen years

The EU financial system is challenged by a range of new vulnerabilities and emerging threats, many of which originate outside traditional financial intermediation activities. This panel will explore how these structural shifts could transform the financial system and consider its possible evolution over the next fifteen years.

Chair: Thorsten Beck, Vice-Chair of the ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee, and Director and Professor at European University Institute

Panellists:

• Ulrich Bindseil, Professor, Technische Universität Berlin
• Claudia Buch, Chair, Single Supervisory Mechanism
• Audrey Plonk, Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
• André Sapir, Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Q&A

Closing remarks by Francesco Mazzaferro, Head of the ESRB Secretariat

End of conference

Thursday, 1 October, to Friday, 2 October 2026

Physical event (by invitation only) with livestream

English

European Systemic Risk Board: Tuomas Peltonen, Antonio Sánchez Serrano, Shirley Simmons-Nocca

Conny Lotze

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