Holly Sraeel

Holly Sraeel

SVP, Strategy and Content

American Banker Live Media

Holly Sraeel is Arizent's Senior Vice President of Strategy and Content, Live Media, leading content creation and innovation for the events portfolio and introducing new multimedia and invitation-only experiences for senior executives that drive critical conversations and action around corporate strategy, innovation and financial performance. She is part of the company's operational leadership team and is focused on developing cross-platform programming that creates higher levels of engagement for subscribers, community participants and partners across the company's brands, including American Banker, The Bond Buyer, National Mortgage News, Accounting Today, Digital Insurance, Financial Planning and Employee Benefits News.

Sraeel is an award-winning editorial director, media executive and content strategist with expertise in developing influential content, communities, and events for C-level executives in the banking and financial services, insurance, and technology industries. Prior to joining Arizent, she held several content leadership and strategist roles, including for B2B media consultancy New York Ventures, capital markets management consultancy Opimas, Oxford University-incubated startup Wise Responder, and as cofounder of Genesys Partners' Agility First Forum.

This new role marks a return to the company for Sraeel. In her previous 12-year run, she was a member of the executive team and was pivotal in driving new cross-platform editorial, events and business innovation as SVP of Brand Management; Group Editorial Director of Banking and Technology magazines; and Founder, President and Editorial Director of The Most Powerful Women in Banking,™ the company's first-ever, community-based media platform, now part of Arizent's flagship American Banker.

Sraeel is an early honors graduate of Marist College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a concentration in journalism.

Featured Sessions

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
1:25 pm

This panel focuses on where agentic AI creates measurable competitive advantage: faster risk decisions, proactive client engagement, real-time liquidity management, and scalable growth without linear cost increases. Executives will explore how agentic systems enable banks to operate confidently in on-chain finance, instant payments, and global markets—while maintaining trust with clients and regulators. The discussion will focus on:

  • Agentic AI in fraud, AML, and real-time risk prevention
  • Always-on client service and relationship management
  • Treasury, liquidity, and balance sheet optimization
  • Operating digital assets and tokenized markets safely
  • Why speed itself is becoming a regulated capability
  • Separating leaders from fast followers in AI adoption
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
12:55 pm

Customers don’t care about rails—they care about speed, cost, and certainty. Banks must remove complexity or lose volume. The urgency is to create seamless user and client experiences that bridge FedNow, RTP, tokenized deposits, stablecoins and CBDCs. This one-on-one discussion will focus on how banks can approach:

  • Building orchestration layers
  • Harmonizing messaging (ISO 20022-compatible smart contracts)
  • Providing unified dashboards and treasury automation