Extra episode: Live from the Leaders in Finance AI Event 2026 with Menno Bonninga, Bira Thanabalasingam, Kyriakos Fistos, and Yorick Naeff
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The episode features a discussion on the challenges and strategies of AI implementation in financial institutions.
Welcome to this extra episode of the Leaders in Finance Podcast, recorded live after the third Leaders in Finance AI Event at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. Following a day of keynotes and discussions, host Kees de Wit is joined by Menno Bonninga (Partner at EY Consulting and EY Netherlands AI Lead), Bira Thanabalasingam (Managing Director at Yellowtail Conclusion), Kyriakos Fistos (AI & Analytics Advisor at SAS), and Yorick Naeff (Chief Innovation Officer at ABN AMRO) to reflect on some of the biggest questions facing financial institutions as AI moves from experimentation towards everyday business. Why do so many AI initiatives still struggle to scale? Why is data quality often a bigger challenge than the AI models themselves? And how do large financial institutions balance innovation with governance, regulation and decades of legacy systems? The conversation explores the rise of agentic AI, the difference between trust and customer loyalty, why organisations should stop chasing the latest models and instead start with strategy, and how AI is forcing banks to rethink not only their technology, but also their operating models, workforce and long-term role in society. One…
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