What is the public good of banking and banking supervision? Is there a trade-off between shareholder value and the wider public interest? How does the creation of private value in banking align with the public interest? What roles do regulation and supervision play in maintaining a balance?
• Richard Gnodde, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
• Jella Benner-Heinacher, President, Better Finance
Moderator: Naomi Lloyd, TV journalist
Every two years the Forum brings together high-level policymakers, academics, financial executives and experts to exchange views on current developments in banking and supervision.
What disruptors are challenging our status quo, and how should banks respond to prevalent uncertainty? How are geopolitics shaping the financial sector? Have a look at the programme and join inspiring discussions.
The conference took place on 13 and 14 November 2025 in Frankfurt am Main.
Watch all sessions from the conference: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLnVAEZuF9FZntfWjUXWUomE2ws12ca_6I/edit
See the conference programme here:
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/20251113_6th_ECB_Forum_Banking_supervision.en.html
How have banks progressed in identifying, quantifying and managing the risks stemming from the climate and nature crises? How do ever more frequent extreme weather events and the degradation of ecosystem services affect the risks that banks are facing? What is the role of transition plans and transition finance going forward?
• Patrick Amis, Director General, European Central Bank
• Michala Marcussen, Group Chief Economist, Société Générale
• Kevin Stiroh, former Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Moderator: Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB
Every two years the Forum brings together high-level policymakers, academics, financial executives and experts to exchange views on current developments in banking and supervision.
What disruptors are challenging our status quo, and how should banks respond to prevalent uncertainty? How are geopolitics shaping the financial sector? Have a look at the programme and join inspiring discussions.
The conference took place on 13 and 14 November 2025 in Frankfurt am Main.
Watch all sessions from the conference: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLnVAEZuF9FZntfWjUXWUomE2ws12ca_6I/edit
See the conference programme here:
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/20251113_6th_ECB_Forum_Banking_supervision.en.html
Business life has become more uncertain. Banks and supervisors must keep pace with various global dynamics, but staying the course is challenging when conditions are changing fast. What are the main disruptors and challenges for banks right now? What is driving the disruption: geopolitics, climate change, artificial intelligence, cyber security? What strategies should banks pursue to remain competitive, sound and stable?
• Andrea Orcel, Group Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit
• Sharon Donnery, Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB
• Britta Schmidt, Senior Analyst, Autonomous
Moderator: Nicholas Comfort, Finance reporter, Bloomberg
Every two years the Forum brings together high-level policymakers, academics, financial executives and experts to exchange views on current developments in banking and supervision.
What disruptors are challenging our status quo, and how should banks respond to prevalent uncertainty? How are geopolitics shaping the financial sector? Have a look at the programme and join inspiring discussions.
The conference took place on 13 and 14 November 2025 in Frankfurt am Main.
Watch all sessions from the conference: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLnVAEZuF9FZntfWjUXWUomE2ws12ca_6I/edit
See the conference programme here:
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/20251113_6th_ECB_Forum_Banking_supervision.en.html
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Defence, security, Russia and China are on the agenda in the latest Lord Speaker’s Corner. Former Nato Secretary General, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, and former First Sea Lord, Lord West of Spithead, speak to Lord McFall of Alcluith.
In this episode, Lord Robertson, who was also Defence Secretary from 1997 to 1999, warns that the UK is “under-prepared and under attack”. He also discusses Russian-organised sabotage in Europe, explaining “They can’t do it themselves. So they are now contracting out, a good capitalist principle, to organised crime. Our undersea cables, which carry 99% of all the data we use, are vulnerable and they’re watching them and, in some cases, attacking them.”
Lord West, the UK’s first Security Minister from 2007 to 2010, reflects on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying “It’s quite difficult to see how one’s going to get out of this [conflict] because one doesn’t want a full war between Nato and Russia. They [Russia] would lose it. And the danger with them losing it is – would they then make that stupid mistake of going nuclear?”
Both also share their thoughts and experience of dealing with China. Lord West discusses his experience commanding a battle group as he dealt with a challenging Chinese navy during the handover of Hong Kong: “out at sea it was very different from the pictures coming from Hong Kong. The Chinese Navy were trying to ram our ships. They were opening missile doors.”
Lord Robertson suggests a careful approach, saying “We’ve got to engage with China, but recognise that it is going to be the future challenge – militarily, commercially and diplomatically – and therefore be very, very cautious about what we do… I think it’s probably better to call the Chinese a problem rather than a threat at the present moment.”
Lord West also discusses his experience in the nuclear chain of command on 9/11, sharing “I remember getting a phone call from our nuclear firing cell, the guys who finally – when all the codes go – press the buttons, and they said, unbelievably, on my red phone [linking to the UK deterrent]: ‘Sir… the Americans are starting to move to immediate readiness for nuclear weapon release in all three systems.’ That’s strategic air, intercontinental ballistic missiles and subsurface …’What do you want me to do?’”
See more from the series https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/house-of-lords-podcast/
The world’s nations have pledged to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land – an area larger than China.
The UN’s World Restoration Flagships highlight the most ambitious and promising nature-restoration projects worldwide. Here, we profile four of them, including a Jordanian botanic garden, fast-growing bamboo, and the revival of Korea’s fire-damaged forests.
1t.org is the World Economic Forum’s platform for the trillion trees community. It aims to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees worldwide by 2030.
Building #resilience means protecting lives, livelihoods and the natural systems we all depend on. By investing in nature’s protective power – from #forests and wetlands to oceans, food and water systems – we can reduce climate shocks, strengthen stability and secure long-term well-being. Join the conversation by following #PeoplePlanetProgress
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0:14 – 3 ways to get back to 1.5°C – A climate scientist’s message to COP30: In the next 5-10 years, it’s ‘inevitable’ the planet will breach 1.5°C of global warming on a more permanent basis, after it touched the boundary for the first time in 2024, says Johan Rockström, Joint Director of PIK Potsdam.
3:38 – Protecting the most at-risk tropical forests would save 25 million jobs: Every year, the planet loses an area of tropical forest equivalent to the size of South Korea. And overall, almost one-quarter of all tropical forests are at high risk of being lost, according to a new report by the UNEP.
5:29 – Extreme weather harms 9 in 10 migrants in Southeast Asia: Lost wages, absenteeism, poor health: the impacts of extreme weather on workers in Southeast Asia are both severe and rising. A survey of workers by People’s Courage International found that extreme heat is the biggest challenge they face. But there are effective, low-cost ways to lessen the impacts of heat stress on workers. Here are 4 of them.
7:07 – Saving the planet requires money. This expert explores how to finance the green transition: ‘We need to think about what we place value on,’ says Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer of Standard Chartered. A host of financial instruments are springing up to smooth the capital flows required for the sustainable transformation of the global economy. Here, she talks us through some of the main ones.
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The 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) opened Monday 10 November in Brazil with leaders urging faster action to keep 1.5°C within reach. UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell said global emissions are bending downward and set priorities: a just, orderly transition away from fossil fuels; tripling renewable energy; doubling energy efficiency; and mobilizing US$1.3 trillion annually for developing countries.
