Rik Coeckelbergs

Founder and CEO The Banking Scene

Rik Coeckelbergs is the Founder and Managing Director of The Banking Scene, a network organisation for bankers and is passionate about building communities and conceptualising ideas, enabling sustainable business models.

Over the years, the community has grown to 5 inspirational events in Luxembourg, Amsterdam and Brussels, the biggest for 400-500 attendees.

He advises financial services firms on their strategic challenges and is a frequent moderator and speaker at industry events. Since 2025, Rik is also a renowned book author, of the bestseller “A New Ethos in Banking – Embracing Values and Ethics for a Meaningful Transformation”.

Before his entrepreneurial journey, Rik was a Payments and Management Consultant at Clear2Pay (now FIS), Business Controller at Colruyt and Senior Product Manager Daily Banking at bpost bank. In 2009, he created a LinkedIn community called “Innovation In Payments”, which today has +140,000 active global members.

This unique mix of multi-year experiences in Finance, Strategy and Marketing within Financial Services and Retail has given Rik a holistic view of today’s challenging financial services market. At the same time, he has this hands-on approach that allows him to tackle critical challenges and put dilemmas into the right context.

Available for speaking engagements, workshops and advisory services on the future of banking, payments, financial wellbeing and the emotional relationship people have with money.