Live - 10th annual conference of the European Systemic Risk Board (Day 2)

“ESRB@15: may you stay forever young”. Tenth annual conference of the European Systemic Risk Board, Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 October 2026, Frankfurt am Main. Physical event (by invitation only) with livestream. See the conference programme here: https://www.esrb.europa.eu/news/schedule/html/261001_10th_annual_conference.en.html - 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, Chairman, Toronto Centre 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, Deputy Director at SAFE, and Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt - 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, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management • Claudia Buch, Chair, Single Supervisory Mechanism • Antonio Gomes, Deputy Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) • Richard Portes, Member of the ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee and Professor at London Business School - Q&A - Closing remarks by Francesco Mazzaferro, Head of the ESRB Secretariat