Sustainability risk is moving into the core of capital markets decision-making, closely tied to conduct risk, counterparty exposure and reputational impact. For senior leaders across risk, investment, compliance, sustainability, and supply chain functions, the question how to interpret complex signals from vast quantities of data and apply them with confidence in credit, investment, and operational decisions.
To address these challenges, RepRisk is sponsoring a Sustainability Breakfast Roundtable, hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight at the Embassy of Switzerland in London on 11 June 2026. The agenda focuses on three areas where firms are under increasing pressure to improve outcomes: applying trustworthy AI to risk identification, improving visibility across private markets, and reassessing sustainability in a changing geopolitical and environmental context.
From Black Box to Bank-Grade – Effective AI for Regulated Workflows
The agenda centres on practical questions around trust, explainability and usability. What makes AI effective in risk management? How should firms assess its accuracy and auditability? Where does human judgement remain critical? These are the questions investment, compliance, risk, and operations teams must resolve as adoption accelerates.In the opening keynote, Effective AI and Agentic AI – through a client lens, Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, Vice President and Global Head of Market Development at RepRisk, addresses a central challenge for banking, capital markets, and non-bank financial services: using AI at scale without sacrificing trust. The discussion will examine how artificial intelligence can be combined with human oversight to identify material risks more reliably, and how firms can ensure AI-powered data is accurate, auditable, and fit for regulated workflows.
Firms need broader coverage of external risk signals, and data insights that can be challenged, reproduced, and defended. The session sets out how AI is being applied in practice and under which conditions it delivers measurable improvements in risk identification.
Into the Blind Spot – Uncovering Hidden Risk in Private Markets
The second session, Seeing What Others Miss – Conduct, Reputational, and Operational Risk in Private Companies, turns to one of the most persistent challenges: visibility into private-market exposure. Private credit, alternatives, and supply-chain financing all rely on data that is often incomplete, fragmented, or difficult to interpret.
Moderated by Jupe Hulkko, Senior Key Account Manager at RepRisk, this session explores how firms can improve visibility beyond financial statements, including mapping ownership structures, understanding borrower, and lending chains, and identifying indirect exposure across counterparties and suppliers. These are areas where traditional due diligence approaches can fall short, particularly when dealing with complex corporate structures or cross-border dependencies.
By linking borrower chains with supply-chain risk and external conduct signals, firms can build a more complete picture of exposure with direct implications for credit assessment, portfolio construction, and fiduciary oversight.
From Hype to Hand-Off – Scaling Sustainability AI
The roundtable concludes by turning ambition into execution – with a candid discussion on how firms are actually scaling sustainability operations with AI. Bringing a practitioner lens to what it takes to move from experimentation to measurable impact, Anna-Marie Tomm, Senior Data Scientist at Man Group, and Louise Dudley, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Federated Hermes, will share how agentic AI workflows are starting to reshape day-to-day sustainability integration.
Moderated by Rebecca Bleasdale, Chief Marketing Officer at RepRisk, the conversation will focus on where agentic AI can unlock real productivity and efficiency. Panellists will tackle what “AI-ready data” looks like in practice, which organisational hurdles still stand in the way of scale, and how firms are preparing their operating models, governance, and teams for the next phase of AI-driven sustainability workflows.
This is a practical, experience-led discussion for firms looking to move beyond pilots – and into production.
A Focused Discussion for Senior Decision-Makers
The roundtable is designed as a curated discussion for senior practitioners across risk, compliance, sustainability, investment, and treasury functions. The smaller setting is intentional – creating space for direct, practical exchange on implementation challenges, rather than high-level or conceptual commentary. For firms looking to strengthen how sustainability risk is identified, assessed, and managed across capital markets workflows, the emphasis is on practical insight and peer exchange.
Join senior risk and investment leaders to explore private-market exposure, reputational risk, and AI-driven decision intelligence – and what it takes to operationalise them at scale. Places are limited – registration is required to secure participation.
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