What to Come and Talk to NatWest About at Sibos 2026
By Ali Paterson · 23 September 2026
Quick Summary
Simon Eacott, Head of Payments at NatWest Group, sets out what delegates should come and discuss on the NatWest stand at Sibos 2026: agentic payments and AI-enabled commerce, fraud, the growth in real-time payments, cross-border payments, where he is on stage, and tokenised deposits. He also argues that correspondent banking is alive and kicking, it just looks and feels different.
Who should visit the NatWest stand?
Eacott says the stand is well populated and he encourages everyone to come and talk: from the partner banks NatWest is connected to globally, to people who want to collaborate or simply understand more about NatWest's role in payments.
What will NatWest be talking about?
The headlines build on everything discussed in the interview:
- Agentic payments and AI-enabled commerce
- Fraud, which will always be a major topic
- The growth in real-time payments
- Cross-border payments evolution, where Eacott is on stage himself
- Digital assets, including domestic and cross-border examples of tokenised deposits
On digital assets, he says a former buzzword is starting to come of age, and NatWest is playing a major part.
What conversations does Eacott want to have?
He wants delegates to talk about what is genuinely changing in the customer world and what is really behind the headlines: less about technology and more about what it enables, and how organisations can work together to serve customers better.
He also highlights correspondent banking. Ten years ago many said it would be dead. Instead, it is alive and kicking and still underpins how transactions and information move around the world. It just looks and feels different, with greater transparency and greater trust.
FF NEWS TAKE:
A stand pitch that ends on correspondent banking is a nice corrective to the Sibos hype cycle. Eacott's list is ambitious, from agentic payments to tokenised deposits, but his framing keeps pulling back to customers and partners. That is the right order for a bank whose value sits in its network. If you are at Sibos, the cross-border session is the one to catch.