Intellect Oxford
Executive Programme in
Wholesale Banking
3rd June to 5th June, 2026
Global Senior Executive / CXO platform for thought
leadership, peer exchange, transformation and ecosystem orchestration
Intellect Oxford
Executive Programme in
Wholesale Banking
- 3rd June to 5th June, 2026
Global Senior Executive / CXO platform for thought leadership, peer exchange, transformation and ecosystem orchestration
2026 Oxford Agenda
The course has a series of learning modules that cover specific topics and have defined learning objectives.
World Outlook & Strategic Consequences: From Global Shifts to Board-Level Choices
Core Economic Engines: Managing, Moving & Financing Money as One System
Growth Arenas & Market Structures: Deploying the Engine at Scale
Transformation That Delivers: Operating Models, Execution Discipline & AI at Scale
Programme Leadership
Meet the illustrious leadership behind this prestigious school.
Alumni of the Intellect Oxford Course
Our alumni have been from leading Financial institutions from Around the globe, providing an Important international Perspective to all discussions.
Location Highlight
The town of Oxford, is the setting for the first two days of the programme and home to an 800 year old institution bearing its name.
Participant Takeaways
By the end of the programme, participants will leave with:
A system-level understanding of how their bank’s growth engines actually work and where value is leaking
A framework to redesign liquidity, payments, trade, and sector strategies as a coherent economic system
A decision lens to prioritise corridors, clients, and platforms under capital and risk constraints
Clarity on which transformation initiatives to stop, not just which to start
A practical architecture for compounding advantage in a fragmenting global economy
Who This Programme Is For
The Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026 is designed for senior leaders responsible for shaping the future of wholesale and transaction banking, including:
CEOs and executive committee members
Heads of corporate, institutional, and transaction banking
CIOs, CDOs, and technology leaders accountable for platform strategy
COOs and transformation leaders responsible for execution and resilience
2026 Oxford Agenda
The course has a series of learning modules that cover specific topics and have defined learning objectives.
World Outlook & Strategic Consequences: From Global Shifts to Board-Level Choices
Core Economic Engines: Managing, Moving & Financing Money as One System
Growth Arenas & Market Structures: Deploying the Engine at Scale
Transformation That Delivers: Operating Models, Execution Discipline & AI at Scale
Programme Leadership
Meet the illustrious leadership behind this prestigious school.
Alumni of the Intellect Oxford Course
Our alumni have been from leading Financial institutions from Around the globe, providing an Important international Perspective to all discussions.
Location Highlight
The town of Oxford, is the setting for the first two days of the programme and home to an 800 year old institution bearing its name.
Programme Leadership
The programme is designed as an executive-level leadership forum that combines structured intellectual inquiry with practitioner-led insight. Participants engage with senior leaders from global and regional wholesale banks who bring direct experience in making strategic and execution decisions under constraint.
Faculty perspectives are complemented by peer dialogue and guided discussion, allowing participants to test assumptions, compare institutional choices, and examine how similar challenges have been addressed across different banking contexts. The emphasis is not on sharing best practices, but on sharpening judgement – helping leaders understand trade-offs, consequences, and design choices in complex wholesale banking systems.
Manish Maakan
School Sponsor
Dr. Theodore
Roosevelt Malloch
Program Director &
School Founder
Rajesh Mehta
Programme Director
Borna Ljubicic
School Director
Andrew England
School Founder
Event Highlights
Expert Guests
Session leaders from previous editions include
Lord Stephen Green
Former CEO,
HSBC
Ashok Vaswani
CEO, Barclays UK,
Barclays
Charles McManus
CEO,
Starling Bank
Lester Owens
Head of Operations,
Wells Fargo
Suresh Viswanathan
COO,
Lloyd TSB
Damaso Cebrian
Global CIO,
Santander
Tracy Black
CEO,
Payments Canada
Werner Steinmüller
Chairman, Deutsche Bank SPA Italy,
Deutsche Bank
Andrew Bester
Head of Wholesale Banking, Member of the Management Board, ING
Hendra Lembong
CEO,
CIMB Group
Etienne Bernard
Global head of Wholesale Banking, Credit Agricole, CIB
Rhomaios Ram
Founder, Digital Bank, Global Head of Product Management TB, Deutsche Bank
Michael Harte
Head, Group Innovation,
Barclays
Michael Spiegel
Global Head,
Wholesale Banking, Standard Chartered
José Luis Calderón
Head of Wholesale Banking, Santander Group,
Spain
Richard Jardim
CIO,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Mark Smith
Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions,
EMEA, Citi
Isaac Thomas
Head of Wholesale Banking Group,
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Ramana Kumar
Head Wholesale Banking,
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Rohit Joshi
MD, Head of Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC
Chiris Ward
Head of Wholesale Payments,
Truist
Brendon Reilly
Head of Wholesale Banking Products,
Silicon Valley Bank
Joydeep Sengupta
Senior Partner, Leader of Asia Pacific Banking Practice, McKinsey & Company
Davide Taliente
Managing Partner,
Oliver Wyman
Ludovic Tran
Co-head Strategy & Consulting France,
Accenture
Peter Hazou
Head of Business Development, Financial Services, Microsoft
Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer,
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Daniel Szmukler
Head, Innovation, Partnerships and Strategic Engagement, EBA
Intellect Oxford School of
Wholesale Banking
The Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026 is held annually in Oxford at Rhodes House, an architectural landmark of the early twentieth century, with the programme concluding at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.
A unique vantage point to spot opportunities and obstacles to operational excellence
A two and a half day face-to-face immersive learning experience
Designed to help wholesale banking executives develop winning strategies
Empowering improved decision making and change management
A Comprehensive Agenda of Topics
The course has a series of learning modules that cover specific topics and have defined learning objectives
~ Steve Jobs
1.World Outlook & Strategic Consequences: From Global Shifts to Board-Level Choices
2. Core Economic Engines: Managing, Moving & Financing Money as One System
Liquidity, payments and trade form the core yet in many institutions these capabilities are managed as separate functions. Reframe money as a system – one that must be visible, structured, and mobile across clients, platforms, and corridors to create economic advantage. Sustainable deposit growth and return on capital increasingly depend on system coherence, not balance-sheet size.
3. Growth Arenas & Market Structures: Deploying the Engine at Scale
4.Transformation That Delivers: Operating Models, Execution Discipline & AI at Scale
Examine AI as a lever to operate complex systems with greater precision, control and resilience. Particular attention is paid to why many transformation efforts stall: when decision rights, incentives, and talent systems remain designed for a different era.
2026 Oxford Agenda
Pre-course
NETWORKING AND CULTURAL PROGRAMME:
PRE-COURSE MORNING IN OXFORD
DAY 1 – HIGHLIGHTS
AM
9:30
DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY, 03 JUNE
- Personal Time: Opportunity to explore this stunning town
PM
14:10
Beyond the Balance Sheet: Designing Growth Architectures
DAY 2 – HIGHLIGHTS
AM
08:30
DAY 2 - THURSDAY, 04 JUNE
- The Battle for Balances: Liquidity, Visibility and Client Stickiness
AM
10:00
The New Circulation Layer: Payments, Collections and e-Commerce
DAY 3 – HIGHLIGHTS
AM
09:00
DAY 3 - FRIDAY, 05 JUNE
- Rewriting Money: Digital Assets, New Rails and Institutional Change
AM
09:40
Execution as Advantage: From Strategy to Institutional Delivery
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Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking — Past Editions
Here is the glimpse of the action at our past events.
Our 300+ Alumni
are leaders from leading financial institutions across four continents
Alumni of the Intellect Oxford Course
The course has a series of learning modules that cover specific topics & have defined learning objectives
Great experience! You’ve done a great job putting this programme in place, so I strongly recommend it.
Patrik Havander, Head of TxB Strategy &
Commercial Excellence, Nordea
It was a wonderful experience; I learned a lot and met many interesting people.
Henrik Lang, MD, Head of Liquidity, Global
Transaction Services, EMEA, Bank of American Merrill Lynch
It was amazing; it far exceeded my expectations. I got to see some of the world’s leaders in transaction banking speak.
Vipul Lalka, VP Enterprise Payments platform & Capabilities, TD Bank
I found that the group activities were an excellent way of drawing in different experiences. We could tackle a particular problem in perhaps a unique way that not many of us individually would have discovered on our own.
JD Penner, Senior Director, Cash Management and Payment Solutions, Commercial Solutions, CIBC
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Intellect Oxford, an exclusive invite-only education program covers fees, curriculum, materials and meals. The program also includes guest speakers and transportation between events. Participants fund their travel to Oxford and stay at special rates at Randolph Hotel, Oxford and Cavendish Hotel, London. Elevate your learning experience with us.
More than 70% of the of the world's top banks #winwith Intellect and its eMACH.ai technology.
For more information and to book your
reservation please contact
Jenny.McIvor@intellectoxford.com
Your Invitation to the Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026
Intellect works closely with many of the world’s leading wholesale banks as they confront structural change across growth, liquidity, execution, and operating models. Through this work, we see first-hand where traditional approaches no longer hold and where deliberate system design is becoming a source of advantage.
The Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026 brings senior leaders together to step back from day-to-day pressures and engage with first principles. The programme creates space for thoughtful dialogue, peer exchange, and rigorous examination of how wholesale banking must be redesigned in a fragmenting world.
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford.
More than 70% of the
of the world's top banks #winwith Intellect and its eMACH.ai technology.
For more information and to book your
reservation please contact
Jenny.McIvor@intellectoxford.com
Your Invitation to the Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026
Intellect works closely with many of the world’s leading wholesale banks as they confront structural change across growth, liquidity, execution, and operating models. Through this work, we see first-hand where traditional approaches no longer hold and where deliberate system design is becoming a source of advantage.
The Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking 2026 brings senior leaders together to step back from day-to-day pressures and engage with first principles. The programme creates space for thoughtful dialogue, peer exchange, and rigorous examination of how wholesale banking must be redesigned in a fragmenting world.
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford.
More than 70% of the
of the world's top banks #winwith Intellect and its eMACH.ai technology.
For more information and to book your
reservation please contact
Jenny.McIvor@intellectoxford.com
