Programme

Coffee/Tea and Registration

Introduction to the Forum by Dennis Philip, Durham University Business School and Klaus Schaeck, University of Bristol Business School

Research Paper Session 1: AI and bank lending (organised by Durham University Business School and University of Bristol Business School) 

Chair: Min Park (University of Bristol Business School)

“Artificial intelligence and relationship lending” by Leonardo Gambacorta (Bank for International Settlements), Fabiana Sabatini (Bank of Italy), and Stefano Schiaffi (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Yushi Peng (Tilburg University) 

“Birds of a Feather Flock Together: The coupling of Innovative Banks and Innovative Firms” by Silvia Del Prete (Bank of Italy), Stefano Schiaffi (Bank of Italy), and Giovanni Soggia (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Clement Mazet-Sonilhac (Bocconi University) 

Coffee Break 

Industry Panel:  “How do Banks Ride the Rise of AI?”

Moderator: Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Deputy Dean, University of Bristol Business School

Diana Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer, Natwest Group

Simone di Castri, CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Transformation Solutions & GovSpace

Trystan Davies, Group Head of Data Science, Lloyds Banking Group

Mehmet Bakkaloglu, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Lunch Break 

Research Paper Session 2: (organised by International Banking Research Network) 

Chair: Guillem Ordonez-Calafi (University of Bristol Business School)

“Digital Rails and Bank Deposits” by Bjorn Imbierowicz (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Rui Santos Almeida (Deutsche Bundesbank) 

Discussant: Valerie Laturnus (Durham University Business School)

“Data-driven Technologies and Local Information Advantages in Small Business Lending” by Wilbur Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jung Koo Kang (Harvard Business School), Aditya Mohan (Analysis Group)

Discussant: Joe Gong (Bayes Business School)

Coffee Break 

Policy Panel: “AI Risk: Facing the Challenges and Finding Opportunities”

Moderator: Daniel Flatt, The Banker, Financial Times

Domhnall Cullinan, Director of Banking and Payments, Central Bank of Ireland 

Stefan Kerbl, Principal Supervisor of Financial Stability and Macroprudential Supervision Department, Austrian National Bank 

Marine Krasovska, Head of Financial Technology Supervision Department, Latvijas Banka

Giuseppe Bruno, Director of Economics and Statistics Department, Bank of Italy 

Closing Remarks

Francesco Vallascas and Yue Xu (Durham University Business School)