New Risks and Opportunities for Bank Boards: Levelling Up

24/10/2025 - 25/10/2025

Location

EUI Premises in Florence

Registration Deadline

26/09/2025

Approach

Qualitative

Delivery mode

Residential

Register here

Who should apply?

Participants profile:

  • Banks’ Non-Executive Directors (current and prospective)
  • Banks’ Executive Directors
  • Board secretaries and secretariat officers
  • Members of board committees
  • Regulatory and government affairs managers
  • Board Advisory consultants

The BBA program puts a high priority on participant diversity, also in geographic terms. Our intention is for participants to interact and discuss with peers to get a valuable learning, sharing and networking experience thanks to an outstanding international faculty of regulators, supervisors, and academics together with bank and finance professionals.

Course Faculty

Friday 24 October 2025

09:30 – 09:45 Introduction & tour de table

09:45 – 10:30 Session 1: Blueprint for Excellence: Crafting the Pillars of a High-Performance Board

10:45 – 11:30 Session 2: Behind the Boardroom Doors: Real-World Cases of Elite Board Dynamics

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 Session 3: Building Excellence Together: A Collaborative Workshop on Mastering Board Structuring and driving Board effectiveness

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Session 4: Risks of geoeconomic fragmentation

15:00 – 16:30 Session 5: Strategic steering amid geopolitical risks

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:00 Session 6: Risk Data Aggregation

18:00 – 19:30 Tour of the historical archives of the EU Institutions at the EUI

19:30 – 20:00 Dinner and Keynote speech

Saturday 25 October 2025

08:30 – 10:00 Session 7: Consolidation of the banking sector – best practices

10:00 – 11:30 Session 8: Machine learning, emerging technologies, and risk management (TBC)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 Session 9: Shaping risk culture

13:30 Closing light lunch

 

FEES*:

  • € 2550 – New participants
  • € 2250 – Returning participants from previous editions

*Please note that payment must be settled within 48 hours of registration into the course. .

The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities, as well as a certificate of attendance after the course has been completed. The fee does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).

 

GROUP DISCOUNT (-10%) for minimum 2 participants from the same institution:

A group discount is available for institutions registering two or more participants. To qualify, the names of all participants must be submitted together in a single email to FBF. Please note that this offer cannot be applied retroactively to individual registrations completed at different times. Those wishing to take advantage of the group discount must write an email to fbf@eui.eu, stating the full names of the proposed participants.

 

CANCELLATION POLICY

In case you can no longer attend the course, you are required to inform the organisers by sending an email to fbf@eui.eu in order to free a seat for participants on the waiting list.

In case of frequent cancellations, FBF reserves the right not to accept further registrations from the same person.

Cancellation before 30th July: 100 percent refund.

Cancellation from 1 August until 1 October: 50 percent refund.

Cancellation from 1 October until 22 October: No refund possible.

For more details, please contact fbf@eui.eu

Accommodation

Participants are responsible for their own accommodation during their stay in Florence. Below are some hotels that are conveniently located either for the city centre or for the course venue.

Fiesole (closer to the European University Institute)

Florence Historic Centre – Santa Maria Novella Train Station area

ph.+39 055 271840, booking@wtbhotels.com

Florence Centre – Piazza della Libertà area

Nearby airports

Pisa International Airport (Galileo Galilei Airport), is located 85 km from Florence. The shuttle Pisa Mover connects Pisa Airport to Pisa Railway Station, and it is in service every day from 6.00 a.m. to midnight with variable frequencies. The average travel time between the airport and the railway station, including the intermediate stop, is about 5 minutes. From Pisa Railway Station it is possible to take a train to Florence Railway Station (average travel time is one hour). Timetable and ticket options are available at Trainline.

Guglielmo Marconi Bologna International Airport is located 105 km from Florence. It is connected to Bologna Central Station by the shuttle train “Marconi Express” that leaves every 7 minutes. Tickets can be purchased on this website. From Bologna Central Station, Florence can be reached with a high-speed train in about 40 minutes. Timetable and ticket options are available at Trainline.

IT information

  • Upon arrival, you will be provided with temporary Wi-Fi access for the duration of the event.
  • If using your company laptop, please check with your company IT department regarding firewall protections before your departure. EUI uses a Captive Portal authentication to access the EUI Wi-Fi network.

On-site contact points

For any practical questions, please feel free to contact the Florence School of Banking and Finance to the attention of Shauna Kavanagh (fbf@eui.eu).

Restaurants

Below you can find a few suggestions on restaurants located in Fiesole or the city centre, which might be useful for your free night(s).

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