Digital finance for AI-driven economies
This year from 28 September to 1 October, the Sibos community gathered at the Miami Beach Convention Center to discuss the most pressing issues facing the financial industry. Our theme for 2026, Digital finance for AI-driven economies, sat at the heart of this vital conversation.
With over 500 expert speakers across 250+ sessions, our 2026 proWith over 500 expert speakers across 250+ sessions, leaders, policymakers, technology experts and innovators explored exactly how AI is reshaping global finance — from payments, securities and trade to digital assets, regulation and resilience.
This year, Jane Fraser, Chair and CEO of Citi, set the scene. Jane’s opening plenary provided insight into exactly how technology is reshaping global finance and reflected on how this year’s theme shaped the Sibos conversation throughout the week.
The programme continued to feature a host of popular Sibos formats, including View from the Top, Industry sessions, Discover Perfect Pitch and the Swift Hackathon, alongside Innotribe, our ‘conference within a conference’. Elsewhere, Policy Lab returned, bringing together regulators, financial institutions and technology experts to discuss the policy implications of emerging technologies.
As ever, Miami witnessed a spectacular close to the week. Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time and a global business leader, brought her perspective on leadership, resilience and long-term success as our closing speaker.
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Topics in focus included:
Payments
- The future of cross‑border payments
- Scaling cross‑border innovation
- Trust, safety and speed in real‑time payments
- Embedded B2B and treasury payments
- AI in payments: promise vs readiness
Securities & FX
- The future of global settlement
- T+1 and settlement alignment
- AI as market agent and counterparty
- Cross‑border regulation for digital markets
- Shifting reserve and settlement currencies
Trade
- Who leads digital trade?
- Trade tokenisation at scale
- Data, AI and policy in global trade
AI & Innovation
- Trust, security and resilience in AI finance
- Agentic AI: identity, control and compliance
- Building the AI‑ready enterprise
- Managing AI dependency and fragmentation
- Quantum and AI: redesigning financial architecture
ESG
- Climate finance and resilience
- Workforce resilience and skills
Digital Assets
- Tokenisation: scale and value creation
- Trust and interoperability
- From accounts to wallets
- Blockchain–AI convergence