Insights from financial institution leaders: Financial services boards are recalibrating oversight in an era of accelerating disruption

Tapestry Networks and EY recently convened a group of board chairs, lead directors, and other senior board leaders from global financial institutions to discuss the risks, opportunities, and oversight challenges they expect to dominate their agendas through the remainder of 2026 and beyond. The discussion suggested that nearly every issue on these boards’ agendas—artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, geopolitical fragmentation, digital assets—is moving faster than the structures charged with overseeing it. AI in particular has become a quandary as the focus shifts from revenue and productivity to some of the very real and immediate risks that the technology presents.