Today, AI companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to dominate the infrastructure, technologies and industries that will define the future of markets in what many are describing as the 4th revolution. In this session, we aim to look beyond today’s AI applications as we know them, and fast forward into the transformative potential of AI for business, finance and the treasury function over the next ten years. This visionary talk will illuminate how AI is set to redefine strategic finance, from fully autonomous cash forecasting and liquidity management to dynamic working capital allocation, payments, fraud prevention and more. AI finance leaders will debate the impact on corporate structures, decision-making processes, and the skills required for future treasury professionals. Treasurers will gain a high-level perspective on the long-term, AI-driven trends that will shape businesses and define the treasury of the future.

Senior bankers and corporate treasurers will explore the critical importance of co-creation in developing the next generation of treasury solutions in this interactive session. Focusing on how genuine collaboration can drive innovation in treasury products and services, from cash management tools to real-time payments, virtual accounts, to liquidity  management, leading bankers share real-world examples of successful client partnerships that have helped develop market-leading products. Treasurers also will hear how they can more effectively influence their banking providers’ product development strategies in the AI era.

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Showcasing real world case studies on how AI is currently being applied in corporate treasury today, across the spectrum of treasury activities, this session will illuminate what is achievable with AI now. With quick fire, overview case studies around the region, treasury presenters will demonstrate recent, innovative applications of AI in cash flow forecasting, hedging optimisation, and liquidity management, and more. We will hear directly from treasurers who have pioneered these projects as they share their implementation roadmaps, key challenges, and the measurable ROI achieved in AI applications. Delegates will gain practical insights on how to define and implement AI applications within their treasury processes and operations in the region.

Treasurers say that working capital is the best source of liquidity, leveraging balance sheet assets, without funding in the external rate markets. Treasurers will provide a strategic view on optimising working capital and liquidity to provide capital for business growth. From repos to factoring, treasurers will discuss the armory of assets for boosting working capital ratios, including managing the cash conversion cycle, from payables and receivables to inventory. Core to the discussion is how to leverage financing solutions like dynamic discounting, reverse factoring and receivables financing to unlock liquidity. We dive into the technologies and tools that help source, unlock and track working capital and liquidity via treasury for the business, and illustrate how aligning working capital initiatives with growth targets elevates treasury from cash custodians to strategic financing partners.

1. Working capital
2. Cash forecasting
3. Cash investments
4. Liquidity management
5. Regional operations  
6. Back office and shared services
7. Payments and receivables
8. Risk management
9. FX operations
10. Commodities and derivatives hedging
11. Capital structuring and refinancing
12. AI and technology transformation

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Achieving operational efficiencies across treasury in a regional context, involves aligning and automating front, middle, and back-office functions, including execution, risk management and compliance, settlement, and accounting to reduce risks. Operational optimisation also includes aligned workflow processes to significantly reduce errors, cut costs, and improve compliance controls in an automated, straight-through-processing environment. From FX settlement to intercompany netting operations, treasurers are focussed on standard operating procedures and best practices across end-to-end treasury processes. In this session, treasurers share insights into creating a joined-up and efficient operational framework, reducing risk, and utilising automated and AI enhanced processes, to deliver treasury support to the business across the region. Treasurers also discuss the internal, regulatory, cultural and technological challenges and obstacles that need to be overcome in pursuit of operational optimisation.

With Fed rates currently at 3.5 percent, repo rates at 4 percent, and government MMF funds at 4.4 percent, treasurers managing surplus cash pools currently have strong yield play in US markets over traditional deposits. Whilst balancing deposits and investments across a portfolio of cash instruments introduces complexity in cash and investment management, yield and risk diversification are clear strategies for treasury. Yet managing liquidity across multiple funds, instruments and assets, instead of leaving cash on deposit, can also introduce risk, uncertainty and challenges in operational efficiency in cash and liquidity management. Here treasurers discuss how they best balance multiple cash investment pools across several accounts and funds for optimal yield and liquidity efficiency, and consider their cash strategies as rates change.

As new technologies, including AI, integrate with treasury processes, the skills required for managing treasury activities are evolving rapidly. Modern treasury teams require a blend of financial and technical skills to keep pace in a dynamic ever changing environment. In this session, we focus on human capital in the AI era, exploring the unique composition of the ‘ideal’ future treasury team. Treasury leaders will discuss the critical shift from finance expertise to strategic, data-driven, and technological competencies, and the adaptability and flexibility to change as technology advances. Treasurers will highlight and identify skill gaps and needs in treasury teams and treasury training needs to meet these skill requirements. Treasurers also share the need to attract new talent with backgrounds in data science and technology to build a future focussed team capable of driving strategic and technological change in treasury transformation.

In a dynamic interest rate environment, where the cost of capital remains elevated, maintaining an optimal capital structure is a critical challenge for finance and treasury leaders. Against a backdrop of rising corporate bond issuance, especially in tech sectors, and higher company valuations, treasurers and finance colleagues are concerned to create the optimal balance of debt and equity ratios in the business. Here we delve into the strategic considerations for rebalancing debt and equity to manage costs and mitigate risk in the current environment. Taking recent capital structuring experiences from US and LatAm corporate treasurers, the session will focus on current funding conditions, including public bonds, private placements, and bank loans.Treasurers will share best practice for assessing their capital structure, debt or equity issuance, and communicating their funding strategies to investors and shareholders.

1. Cash manager
2. Deputy treasurer
3. FX manager
4. Liquidity manager
5. Risk manager
6. Team leader
7. Operations manager
8. Data manager
9. Transformation leader
10. Finance manager
11. Payments manager
12. Working capital manager