Standard Chartered at EuroFinance

• Razia Khan | 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.

• Vibhor Narang | ED, Structured Solutions, Cash Management, Standard Chartered
• Chris McLaughlin | Global Head of Group Treasury, Trafigura
• Patrick Kunz | Managing Director, Pecunia Treasury & Finance (moderator)

Everybody is experimenting with AI, in treasury and across the business. Treasurers tell of how they are teaching themselves, often in their spare time, how to master the curious mix of art and science of getting useful results from AI LLM models and educating themselves on the development of AI technologies in general. In particular, prompt engineering, and coding skills have caught the attention and imagination of treasurers who seek to fine tune treasury applications, most notably cash forecasting, for more accurate results.

Treasurers talk of how they are, often clandestinely, experimenting with AI possibilities, sometimes in a vacuum of vague AI policies in terms of permissions and applications in the business. Here treasures shed light on their AI experimentations and developments and even suggest some AI tips and tools to take away.

• Ankur Kanwar | Regional Head of Cash Management, ASEAN, Global Head of Structured Solutions Development, Standard Chartered

Every corporate treasurer is focussed on improving cash management processes and with an avalanche of new technology in recent years, many have evolved systems to ever greater degrees of efficiency. As API driven tools deliver real time cash visibility and payment data, with connectivity to multi-bank platforms and integration with TMS and ERP systems, cash management transformation is accelerating throughout corporate treasury.

As new AI technologies manifest, the opportunities to innovate to create even more accurate data flows for forecasting and liquidity management are emerging. Diving deep into how banking partners and treasurers collaborate to improve and automate processes, we explore the rapid evolution of next generation real time AI enhanced tools to produce accurate forecasting and decision making in cash and liquidity management.

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

Razia will share her insights on the regional economic outlook, treasury trends, FX risks, liquidity strategies and the impact of digital transformation on corporate treasury in today’s dynamic markets.

• Marion Reuter | Managing Director, Regional Head of Transaction Banking Europe and Transaction Banking Sales Europe (UK/EU), Standard Chartered

Marion speaks on cash management and FX challenges, covering cash flow optimization, tech-driven treasury solutions, multi-currency strategies, and resilience in volatile markets for global businesses.