On 14 July 2015, we examined how Cloud and Big Data transform banking. Indeed the bank and finance industries are not immune to the ICT-induced paradigm shift. They even had a head-start on addressing the related challenges and on leveraging the associated benefits: data security, data privacy, quality of service, trust, global reach, flash trading, etc. At a time when more and more people have a feeling that their familiar world of instinct, experience, intuition is on a collision course with one made of bits, bytes and algorithms, the Digital in Practice Programme decided to delve again into the state of play of a time-honoured industry whose fortunes have been based on trust from the outset. This is the purpose of our workshop to be held on 26 January 2016 with a panel of distinguished experts from the European Commission, the banking sector and our own membership. We hope that you will be able to contribute your comments and concerns to another rewarding discussion. Any reporting should go by the Chatham House Rule.

Speakers:

·         DG Connect, European Commission (Name tbc)

·         Xavier Lofficial, Head of information systems, processes and transformation, Société Générale

·         Jérôme Raguenes, Head, Digital issues, Fédération des Banques françaises