Sibos 2026 — Miami

Sibos 2026, Swift's annual conference for the global financial industry, runs 28 September to 1 October 2026 at the Miami Beach Convention Center — the first time the flagship event has been held in Miami. The 2026 theme is 'Digital finance for AI-driven economies', and the programme carries more than 500 expert speakers across 250-plus sessions organised into streams on payments, securities and FX, trade, AI and innovation, digital assets and ESG. AI runs through all of them rather than sitting in a side track: the published stream outlines include 'AI in payments: promise vs readiness', 'AI as market agent and counterparty', 'Agentic AI: identity, control and compliance' and 'Blockchain–AI convergence', alongside quantum applications, ISO 20022 migration and T+1 alignment. Citi chair and chief executive Jane Fraser opens the conference and Serena Williams closes it. Innotribe runs as a conference within the conference, next to the Swift Hackathon, Discover Perfect Pitch and a returning Policy Lab on the implications of emerging technology.

Date

September 28 – October 1, 2026

Location

Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida

Format

Hybrid

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Swift

Added

Jul 9, 2026

Updated

Aug 15, 2026

• ✓Bank CIOs and CTOs
• ✓Heads of payments and transaction banking
• ✓Securities operations and post-trade leaders
• ✓Financial crime, compliance and risk officers
• ✓Fintech and paytech founders
• ✓Central bankers and financial regulators
• ✓Corporate treasurers

For a bank or market-infrastructure CIO, Sibos is the only week where counterparties, correspondent banks, regulators and core vendors are all reachable in the same building — and the 2026 edition puts AI at the centre of that conversation rather than in a side track. Attendees can pressure-test agentic-AI identity, control and compliance questions against the supervisors who will have to sign them off, benchmark ISO 20022 and T+1 readiness against peer institutions instead of against a vendor's slide, and take tokenisation and digital-asset roadmaps directly to the counterparties whose participation decides whether those roadmaps work at all.

• ✓'View from the Top' CEO interviews — Citi chair and CEO Jane Fraser opens the conference
• ✓Closing keynote from Serena Williams
• ✓Innotribe, Swift's 'conference within a conference' on emerging technology, with startup challenges and future-of-finance debates
• ✓Swift Hackathon and Discover Perfect Pitch
• ✓Policy Lab, returning to examine the regulatory implications of emerging technology
• ✓Payments stream, including 'AI in payments: promise vs readiness', cross-border innovation and real-time payments
• ✓Securities & FX stream, including 'AI as market agent and counterparty' and T+1 alignment
• ✓AI & Innovation stream, including 'Agentic AI: identity, control and compliance' and quantum applications
• ✓Digital Assets stream on tokenisation and 'Blockchain–AI convergence', plus Trade and ESG streams
• ✓Exhibition floor and a Digital Pass streaming mainstage content live with on-demand recordings

• ★The 2026 theme is explicitly AI — 'Digital finance for AI-driven economies' — so agentic AI, model governance and AI-in-payments readiness are threaded through the payments, securities, trade and digital-asset streams rather than confined to an innovation corner
• ★The first Sibos held in Miami, and the first US East Coast edition in recent years, which changes who travels: Latin American and US regional institutions that skip European and Asian editions
• ★Scale that no other financial-infrastructure event matches — 500+ speakers across 250+ sessions, with the correspondent-banking network, market infrastructures, regulators and core vendors in the same week
• ★Innotribe operates as a conference within the conference on the intersection of technology, society and finance, with startup challenges, future-of-finance debates and speculative content on quantum readiness and future-of-identity
• ★A Digital Pass streams sessions live with recordings afterwards, so a team can cover the programme without four days of travel per person

Swift does not publish the Sibos pass table on the open web — the prices-at-a-glance page sits behind the registration portal and is not readable without signing in, so budget from the vendor directly rather than from a listing. The independent PayTech Events listing puts in-person delegate passes from EUR 3,400, with rates varying by delegate category (Swift member institution, vendor, regulator, press). Swift confirms a Digital Pass for remote attendance that streams sessions live and gives access to recordings afterwards. Conference hours are 09:00–18:00 Monday to Wednesday and 09:00–17:00 on Thursday. Confirm current rates at sibos.com before committing travel budget.

When is Sibos 2026?

Sibos 2026 takes place September 28 – October 1, 2026 in Miami Beach, Florida.

Where is Sibos 2026 held?

Sibos 2026 is held in Miami Beach, Florida. The event format is hybrid.

How much does Sibos 2026 cost?

Sibos 2026 is paid. Swift does not publish the Sibos pass table on the open web — the prices-at-a-glance page sits behind the registration portal and is not readable without signing in, so budget from the vendor directly rather than from a listing. The independent PayTech Events listing puts in-person delegate passes from EUR 3,400, with rates varying by delegate category (Swift member institution, vendor, regulator, press). Swift confirms a Digital Pass for remote attendance that streams sessions live and gives access to recordings afterwards. Conference hours are 09:00–18:00 Monday to Wednesday and 09:00–17:00 on Thursday. Confirm current rates at sibos.com before committing travel budget.

Who should attend Sibos 2026?

Sibos 2026 is aimed at Bank CIOs and CTOs, Heads of payments and transaction banking, Securities operations and post-trade leaders, Financial crime, compliance and risk officers, Fintech and paytech founders, Central bankers and financial regulators, Corporate treasurers.

What topics does Sibos 2026 cover?

Sibos 2026 covers AI in payments, Agentic AI identity, control and compliance, Cross-border and real-time payments, ISO 20022 migration, Tokenisation and digital assets, Securities settlement and T+1 alignment, Financial crime and cyber resilience, Quantum readiness in financial services, Trade finance digitisation.

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