Cyber Risk, Financial Power, and Economic Security

Monday, 18 May 2026, 5pm to 6pm

Join us for an expert talk with Dr. Ashley Sweetman exploring how financial institutions have become a critical arena where cyber security, operational resilience, and national economic security intersect. As modern finance has grown increasingly dependent on complex digital systems that process vast volumes of transactions and move capital across borders, cyber risk has emerged as a core strategic challenge with implications that extend well beyond the banking sector.
Drawing on historical insights from the transformation of banking in the City of London and themes from his book Cyber in the City, the talk examines what this experience reveals about the enduring relationship between technological innovation, systemic risk, and the security of critical financial infrastructure.

Dr. Ashley Sweetman is author of "Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age." He is a Director of cyber security for a London-based global bank. Alongside this, Sweetman is a Visiting Research Associate in the Emerging Threats Group at Oxford University and an Affiliate Fellow at the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), the UK's first academic research institute to focus on understanding the overall cyber security of organisations, funded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and hosted at the University of Bristol.

Speaker(s): Ashley Sweetman

Series: Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Venue: Manor Road Building - Manor Road OX1 3UQ - Manor Road OX1 3UQ Manor Road Building Manor Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3UQ United Kingdom

Department: Politics & Int Relations (Department)

Host: Oxford Emerging Threats Group

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