Speakers’ and Guests’ Feedback on the European Digital Finance Conference – June 2, Amsterdam

Tjeerd Hunnekens, Global IT Platform Transformation Lead at ING  

Still energized from the European Digital Finance Conference this Monday!

It was a real pleasure to share thoughts on building the bank of tomorrow — and I’m grateful for the many kind and thoughtful reactions afterward.

A big thank you to Elena Kriek and Morten Kriek for organizing such a forward-looking and inspiring event.

To all participants: wishing you lots of success as you continue your company and personal digital transformation journeys. Let’s keep shaping the future — from within.

#EDFC2025 #DigitalTransformation #InnovationFromWithin #FinanceForward

Francesco Aghemio, Head of Belgium & Netherlands Branches at Revolut

It was great to be back at the Banking50 conference in Amsterdam last week and exchange with such excellent panelists. Thanks a lot Morten Kriek and Elena Kriek for the invitation.

We had a lively discussion about challengers reshaping the financial landscape in Europe. 

A few takeaways I shared:

Regulation vs. “Gold-Plating”: We must be cautious of ‘regulatory gold-plating’—where well-intentioned rules unintentionally slow down innovation and diminish the very customer value they are meant to protect. The goal should be better outcomes, not just more rules.

The Customer is the Compass: In the race to innovate, the most crucial success factor remains unchanged. Keeping the customer at the absolute center of every initiative isn’t just a mantra; it’s the only reliable key to long-term success.

CC Thomas Vles Marijus Plančiūnas Frans van Bruggen

#Benking50 #Innovation #Fintech #Regulation #CustomerValue #CustomerCentricity #Amsterdam

Aleksandra Brdar Turk, Director Banking Operations, OTP banka 

Truly honoured to have had the opportunity to speak at the European Digital Finance Conference in Amsterdam last week. I had some amazing coffee time chats with participant and connected with so many new professionals!

Morten Kriek and The Banking 50 thank you so much for the invite and warm welcome!

Elena Kriek you are the best event and party planner!

Wultra 

Bringing our post-quantum expertise to yet another event! This time, we’re visiting Amsterdam. 

Organized by The Banking 50, this year’s European Digital Finance Conference brings together top minds in banking and financial services to explore the future of finance.

Looking at our fellow sponsors, we’re really happy to be in such a great company!

Today, our CEO Petr Dvorak took the stage with a presentation on post-quantum authentication – diving into what quantum resilience really means for digital identity and trust in tomorrow’s financial systems 

From cutting-edge tech talks to meeting incredible leaders across Europe, this event is packed with inspiration, insights, and big ideas.

Marijus Plančiūnas, CEO at Paysera 

Sharing a few photos from the European Digital Finance Conference, where I took part in a panel discussion about challenger banks. Many thanks to the organizers, 

Elena Kriek and Morten Kriek, for a well-organized and productive event.

Francis Marinier, ICA, CAMS, Compliance Industry Practice Lead,  Moody’s 

HuHumans remained very much in The Loop at the #EuropeanDigitalFinanceConference in Amsterdam, where the Moody’s Analytics team engaged with EU FinCrimeCompliance Leaders.

Thank you Bart De Haan, Denis Kalyapin & Ivar Lammers for your trust and engagement. Building this panel between #Banks & #NBFIs has been a chance to look into some of the current challenges of our industry and share best practices.

Key take aways:

Lessons learned from an #APP crisis: Enriching your KYC to enhance Fraud prevention, activate your data and augment the mitigant power of your control framework by building a trusted partnership with your data office to foster a culture of #datainteroperability.

#EntityVerification: Build feedback loops throughout your processes from #pKYC to #networkinvestigations to identify current limitations and escalate new golden source requirements to your data hub/MDM. #AMLpackage focus on live and currated data triangulation, away from self declarative sources.

#KYCc* is the new KYC. 

*customer’s customers

#FATFREC16: Following the second round of consultations, it is clear that a fine comb, auditable,explainable, risk based approach is required for #screening frameworks to deliver on G20 agenda (drop cost of payment), prevent derisking and debankarization, as well as enable activities such as remittance or bundled payments to be sustained. #AgenticAI evidences a strong ability to meet these objectives. 

#Crypto& #DeFi: can no longer be kept out of FIs risk appetite; data/systems architecture must be open ended to consider tighter reg&supervision to come (eg. 2025 rush of FIs to stablecoins). #GeniusAct #MiCA

Thank you Leila Sid Morten Kriek, Elena Kriek,  Will Morris Anastasiya Semenova #Thebanking50 Moody’s Analytics

We have many more conference reviews, all shared on our LinkedIn pages.

The Banking 50: 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/thebanking50/

European Digital Finance Conference: 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/europeandfc

Upcoming events:

– The Banking 50 AI TRANSFORMATION IN BANKING & FINANCE Retreat, September 24-26, 2025 – Jávea, Spain

– European Digital Finance Conference Lending, October 2025, Amsterdam

– European Digital Finance Conference AI, innovation, digital transformation, fraud prevention, November 2025, Amsterdam