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# The New Financial Stack: AI, Agents and Trust


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 10:10–10:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100002-the-new-financial-stack-ai-agents-and-trust)

## Description

Finance is being rebuilt around AI and agents, in a domain with almost no tolerance for getting it wrong. This panel explores how the sector is changing and how much trust it demands before it adopts anything new. Technology and finance leaders on what is moving and what still holds it back.

## Speakers

### [Annabella Bassler](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@annabella-bassler)

Group CFO of Ringier 
### [Daniele Tonella](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniele-tonella)

CTO of ING
### [Peter Bakenecker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@peter-bakenecker)

President Central Europe at Mastercard
### [Klaus Fiala](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@klaus-fiala-2)

Editor-in-Chief at Forbes


## Related talks at this congress

- [The integrated AI experience: A New Paradigm in an Agentic World](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1088-the-integrated-ai) — Loredana Crisan, Markus Rautert, Stefan Ostwald, Anna Heim
- [The Missing Layer Between Enterprise Data and AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1328-the-missing-layer) — Jannis Eickenroth, Sebastian Klenke
- [From AI Assistance to Agentic Systems: Scaling Sovereign AI in Banking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1075-from-ai-assistance) — Julia Koch, Markus Hacker
- [The 8th Layer: Building the Open AI Stack Before It Builds You](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1067-the-8th-layer) — Raffi Krikorian