Treasury Talks podcast series

This year's Women in Treasury & Finance APAC Forum brought the community together at the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore on 9th July. In this episode, hear highlights from a fireside chat with Rachel Whelan of Deutsche Bank on her career journey, equity and resilience, followed by a panel discussion with leaders from Clifford Chance, MUFG, SATS and J.P. Morgan covering diverse talent, allyship, difficult conversations and the equity implications of AI in the workplace.

Live from the Adam Smith Awards, Treasury Today talks with Ravi Patel, Senior Director Financial Risk Management at Bristol Myers Squibb and Marianna Polykrati, Group Treasurer at AVRAMAR about treasury's top priorities: automation, cash flow forecasting and where AI is really being used. They also cover real-time payments, ISO 20022 progress, building the next generation of treasury talent, and hedging against geopolitical and supply chain risk.

SEPA Instant has been available since 2017, but corporate uptake has lagged. New EU rules now force banks to process instant payments within ten seconds in an effort to accelerate adoption. Members of Standard Chartered's Europe transaction banking team, Richard Stansbury, Head, Product Management in London and Felix Orth, Director, Cash Product Manager based in Frankfurt, reflect on the extent to which the legislation will help unlock real-time payments for treasurers and the bottlenecks that remain.

AI is transforming cash flow forecasting, giving treasurers unprecedented visibility into future inflows and outflows to inform their hedging strategies. But rather than reducing the need for humans, as predictive models grow more sophisticated, the treasurer's role interpreting insights and shaping strategy is becoming even more important. Standard Chartered's Thomas Kikis, Managing Director and Head of Markets, US and Americas, shares how AI is being used on the trading floor.

In our final chapter of this year's Women in Treasury & Finance tour, the US Forum took place in New York. This featured a sponsored welcome reception and inspiring fireside chat with Standard Chartered, followed by an awards presentation celebrating our 2025 Within Award winners for The Americas and then a lively panel discussion. Listen to some of the highlights here.

Digital assets like stablecoins and tokenisation are making treasury faster, smarter and truly global. Standard Chartered’s Jennifer Lassiter explains how a new regulatory and legislative framework is finally giving corporate treasurers the confidence to leap into modernising their treasury infrastructure and grasp these new treasury tools.

Our 2025 Women in Treasury & Finance EMEA Forum brought together leading voices from across the region to celebrate excellence, connection and progress in the industry. In this podcast episode, take a walk through the day's highlights and hear inspiring snippets from our panel discussion.

Our 2025 Women in Treasury & Finance Forum in July brought together our APAC community to celebrate our Within Award winners and discuss the level of progress in the industry. Listen to some of the key highlights from the panel discussion.

AI is transforming everything from liquidity management to regulatory compliance and making treasury functions more agile and forward-looking. Vibhor Narang, Lead, Structured Solutions, Transaction Banking, at Standard Chartered is supporting the banks' European clients to combine conventional treasury with the cutting-edge technology to deliver smarter, faster and more secure solutions. In conversation with Treasury Today, Vibhor outlines the stunning potential.

The explosive rise in cross-border payments driven by the evolution in e-commerce and new trade corridors has created a new payments landscape characterised by innovations like QR-based payments, FX conversion and multi-currency payments, mobile wallets and account validation. Standard Chartered's Anand Natarajan and Michael Oskar Kleinsteuber explain the technological and regulatory changes supporting and shaping cross-border payments.