How Banks Are Preparing for AI-Driven Software Delivery
Date: May 20th, 2026
Location: Morgan Stanley, Canary Warf, London
Vibe: Breakfast through Lunch | Informal | Real-talk
A morning seminar for technical leaders working on the practical implementation of automated SDLC governance.
Banks and financial institutions are under the same pressure: deliver software faster without compromising on risk controls. Most are tackling this in isolation — developing their own interpretations, their own standards, their own tooling.
The result is an industry-wide pattern that’s hard to ignore: vague control requirements, standards that are difficult to justify to auditors, and implementations that don’t scale across the organisation.
We think there’s a better way. The Control Group exists to stop reinventing this wheel behind closed doors — and to build shared definitions, common standards, and a collective understanding of what good looks like in software delivery governance.
At this second gathering, we’ll dig into how AI is shaping the SDLC governance conversation, and explore the practicalities of controls evidencing and reporting.
Agenda
Introducing controls can be a disruptive process, we will discuss how by adopting a product centric mindset and apply engineering practices we can roll out and establish new controls by minimising disruption while balancing risk.
Aaron Searle - Executive Director at Morgan Stanley
Matthew Savage - Director of Data & Tooling at Deutsche Bank
Adam Chappell - Executive Director, Core Platform Engineering at UBS
Speakers
Aaron Searle
Morgan Stanley
Executive Director
Matthew Savage
Deutsche Bank
Director of Data & Tooling
Adam Chappell
Executive Director, Core Platform Engineering
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