Reminder: Invitation to the media: 10th RiskLab Finland, Bank of Finland and European Systemic Risk Board Joint Conference on AI and Systemic Risk Analytics, 27 June

Dear journalist,

You are invited to participate in the 10th RiskLab Finland, Bank of Finland and European Systemic Risk Board Joint Conference on AI and Systemic Risk Analytics on Friday 27 June 2025 online or at the Bank of Finland auditorium (Rauhankatu 19, Helsinki). The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing virtual participation.

The afternoon session starting at 14.00 will entail speeches from Governor Olli Rehn and Nobel Laureate in Economics Simon Johnson followed by an interview of Professor Johnson by Governor Rehn. In the registration form below, we ask you to indicate whether you will participate in the full programme or the afternoon session.

Kindly find the programme below. Please note that all times listed in the conference schedule are in Finnish local time (UTC+3 EEST).

Please register by 25 June 2025 at 15.00 by using link below:

Register here

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Full programme

Time: Friday, 27 June 2025
Place: Bank of Finland Auditorium, address: Rauhankatu 19, Helsinki / Virtual participation possible

8.30–9:00 Registration & coffee

9:00–9:15 Conference opening: Katja Taipalus (Head of Financial Stability and Statistics Department)

Session 1

9:15–9:45 Gaming the Test? Window-dressing and portfolio similarity around the EU-wide stress tests, Claudio Barbieri  (European Central Bank)

9:45–10:15 Cassandra: an automated AI-based surveillance system to forecast bank distress from financial news
Javier Arranz Barquero (European Central Bank)
Alexandros Kouris (European Central Bank)
Christoffer Kok (European Central Bank) (virtual)
Anastasios Petropoulos (European Central Bank) (virtual)
Luca Parafioriti (European Central Bank) (virtual)

Session 2

10:15-10:45 Conditional Forecasting of Margin Calls using Dynamic Graph Neural Networks, Gabriele Visentin (ETH Zurich)

10:45-11:15 Trusting Deep Learning Networks for Credit Default Predictions under Imbalanced Data: Investigation of Potential Bias, Alexie Alupoaiei (National Bank of Romania)

Session 3

11:15–11:45 Decomposing Systemic Risk: The Roles of Contagion and Common Exposures, Grzegorz Halaj (European Central Bank)

11:45–12:15 Can Large Language Models Trade? AI Agents Competing in Stock Markets, Alejandro Lopez Lira (University of Florida) (virtual)

12:15–13:15  Lunch (Poster session 1)

13:15–14:00 Expert Brief Speech: Sampo Pyysalo (University Research Fellow, TurkuNLP group, University of Turku) 

14:00-14:15 Intro: Olli Rehn (Governor, Bank of Finland and First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board) 

14:15-15:00 Keynote: Simon Johnson (2024 Nobel Laureate in economics, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Faculty Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work initiative, and Co-Chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council) 

15:00-15:30 Fireside Chat: Olli Rehn (Governor, Bank of Finland and First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board) interviews Simon Johnson (2024 Nobel Laureate in economics, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Faculty Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work initiative, and Co-Chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council) 

15:30–15:45 Refreshments

Session 4

15:45–16:15 Homeowners’ budgets and debt servicing capacity projections, Rikke Nissen (Danmarks Nationalbank)

16:15–16:45 Cyber mapping as a tool for monitoring cyber risk, Borut Poljšak (Banka Slovenija) (virtual)

16:45-17:00  Closing remarks

Posters (presented at lunch break)

The Role of Machine Learning in Enhancing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance, Muhammad Babar Shahzad

When and what level? Calibration of the countercyclical capital buffer using early warning models, Arthur Rutkowski