Innovating With Stability and Trust in an Age of AI

Finextra
FinextraMay 28, 2026

Why It Matters

Temenos’s emphasis on trustworthy, regulated AI gives banks a clear path to modernize without sacrificing compliance, shaping competitive dynamics in the financial services industry.

Key Takeaways

  • Banks must modernize or risk losing market share to agile competitors.
  • Trust remains core; Temenos leverages 33‑year reputation for AI integration.
  • AI in banking requires auditable, deterministic core to satisfy regulators.
  • Stable innovation hinges on trusted vendor, governed AI, progressive modernization.
  • Temenos positions itself as a defensible moat offering stability and trust.

Summary

The video captures Temenos CEO Takis Spiliopoulos speaking at the Temenos Community Forum in Copenhagen, where he frames the current banking landscape as a defining moment driven by AI and new digital competitors.

Spiliopoulos warns that banks that fail to modernize risk falling behind, while those that embrace AI can capture market share. He emphasizes that trust, built over 33 years, is the foundation for integrating AI responsibly, insisting on auditable, deterministic core systems that satisfy regulators.

Key quotes include, “Trust is key,” and “AI must be auditable, deterministic, and governed.” He outlines three pillars of stable innovation: a trusted vendor relationship, governed AI deployment, and a progressive, rather than “big‑bang,” modernization path.

The implications are clear: banks adopting Temenos’s AI‑ready core can meet regulatory demands, reduce error risk, and differentiate themselves in a crowded market, positioning Temenos as a defensible moat in the fintech ecosystem.

Original Description

Following his morning keynote, Takis Spiliopoulos, CEO, Temenos joined the FinextraTV studio at the Temenos Community Forum 2026 to discuss the defining moment banks currently face. Spiliopoulos explained that this defining moment is neither an optimistic nor pessimistic one, but both. He raised the fragmented adoption of AI and the various complications modernisation offers for companies of varying sizes. Crucially, Spiliopoulos describes how it is possible to push for an exponential growth of innovation, whilst retaining a consistent level of stability with no margin for error.
00:00 - 00:26 - Introduction
00:26 - 01:26 - Banks Modernising
01:26 - 04:29 - Trust and AI
04:29 - 06:01 - Stable Innovation
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