The Agentic Bank: Closing the Gap Between Insight and Action
What happens when AI agents start acting on behalf of your customers—but your infrastructure isn’t built to support them?
Banks and wealth managers have spent decades optimizing for transactions, control, and compliance. Those strengths still matter. But as AI moves from insight to action, the way customers engage with financial services is fundamentally changing — from navigating products to simply expressing intent and expecting outcomes.
AI is reshaping financial services — from product design and customer experience to infrastructure, risk, and governance.
Senior leaders from banks and technology firms will explore how to support AI-driven financial activity without replacing existing systems, what it takes to enable intelligent, real-time execution safely, and what separates institutions that are ready for this shift from those that aren’t.
Followed by cocktails, light bites, and networking.
This is an official event of #NYFTW26.
Panelists:
• Rob Rooney — Co-Founder & CEO, Hyperlayer
• Christine Tu — Head of AI & Data, Wealth Management Technology, Morgan Stanley
• Alexandra Mousavizadeh — Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Evident
• Dipendra Malhotra — Head of Wealth Technology, Citi Bank
About Hyperlayer:
Founded in 2023, Hyperlayer is the intelligent banking platform that enables financial institutions to innovate at pace without replacing the core systems that safeguard stability. Its modular and customizable design enables banks, wealth managers, merchants, and businesses to launch new and highly innovative financial products at pace, without replacing costly back-end systems. It's the tech behind the award-winning B2C money app, Hyperjar, in the UK.
Less than three years since launch, Hyperlayer is already working with Tier 1 financial institutions on transformation projects. In September 2025, Hyperlayer was announced as one of the 'Emerging Fintech' cohort in the prestigious and highly competitive global Mastercard Start Path programme. In Q3 2025, the firm closed one of the biggest early-stage funding rounds for a European fintech that year, raising $40m/£30m to expand its product and engineering teams, and support international expansion as demand grows for its plug-and-play financial technology.