In 2026, financial institutions are navigating a perfect storm: regulatory pressure, margin compression, rising client expectations, relentless demands for innovation – while governance is stretched thin.

As complexity increases, cognitive biases quietly distort decisions, weaken oversight and trigger unintended conduct outcomes.

Not so rational after all!

In this session we explore how forward-looking GRC leaders can leverage behavioural economics and debiasing techniques to build smarter systems – without adding more rules.

WE WILL TACKLE

• How the 3 behavioural economics foundations and most common biases for GRC, can help us to up our game
• Whether AI reduces bias or risks embedding biases and heuristics deeper in policies, supervision and control frameworks
• How to integrate actionable debiasing tools and techniques as an alternative solution into GRC supervision practices and culture – without adding training overload

Effective GRC isn’t necessarily about more control, it’s about better thinking, by design