EuroFinance Africa & Middle East

• Razia Khan | Chief economist and Head of Research, Africa and Middle East, Standard Chartered

Treasurers are concerned with regional risks that might potentially impact operations, disrupt supply chains, impede trade flow, limit liquidity, create currency volatility, cause commodity price spikes, and trap cash in markets. Monitoring and mitigating regional risks is challenging in jurisdictions across Africa and the Middle East, as each country and market present their unique challenges.

In this session the expert panel will highlight risk factors impacting corporate treasury operations in the region, and discuss how challenges in currencies, commodities, liquidity markets and other core treasury areas might impact corporate growth and operations within specific regional markets in the year ahead.

• Mirosha Brijmohan | Head, TB sales, South and Southern Africa, Standard Chartered

Priorities in regional treasury management are different in every organisation yet many companies face common challenges across cash and liquidity management, risk, compliance and operations. In a multi-country environment, with constantly shifting regulations around cash operations, hard currency liquidity, banking operations and tax regimes, treasurers have many priorities to navigate.

In this session treasurers discuss their priorities in optimising cash operations, their solutions and workarounds in some of the more challenging jurisdictions, and how they work to optimise treasury processes through the maze of regional compliance. Intercompany netting, cash pooling and inhouse banking operations for subsidiaries in the region are also in focus for treasurers looking to optimise efficiency gains in cash management operations. We focus also on the people, systems and technologies, including AI, in local treasury that enable regional operations to function optimally and reduce risk in cash and liquidity management.

• Saad Adhami | Head of Cash sales, UK, Standard Chartered

Cash forecasting and strategies for managing trapped cash in the region. Intercompany lending, netting and pooling to support working capital for intergroup trading and local business operations

• Nick Philpott | Co-founder and Head of Partnerships, Zodia Markets

Cash forecasting and strategies for managing trapped cash in the region. Intercompany lending, netting and pooling to support working capital for intergroup trading and local business operations

• Kwame Asante | Executive Director, Payments and Treasury Solutions, Africa, Standard Chartered

Delegates join group discussions and share experiences on operational challenges in treasury in specific regions.