Treasury Talks podcast series

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...

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...

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 conver...

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 suppo...

Siemens, a global leading technology company, is using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to make payments in dollars and euros. Blockchain is typically associated with bitcoin, but treasury teams can use it to make payments in traditional currencies and harness the benefits or real time payments, programmability and tokenization.

In our final chapter of this year's Women in Treasury tour, the US Forum took place on 12th October in New York.  This featured a sponsored welcome reception and inspiring fireside chat with IFC, followed by an awards presentation celebrating our 2024 Within Award winners for The Americas. In the panel discussion, four industry experts shared their career journeys and discussed some of the ke...

In September, treasury professionals from across the region gathered for the annual Women in Treasury EMEA Forum to discuss diversity, equity and inclusion and celebrate our 2024 Within Award winners. In the panel discussion, four industry experts share their experiences and discuss the challenge of difficult leadership and dealing with discrimination.

AI is set to transform transaction banking staples including cash and liquidity management and trade finance. The best place for treasury to start harnessing the advantages is developing a map of treasury workflows and developing a data strategy, say Standard Chartered’s transaction banking sales team, Executive Director Amy Beninato and Managing Director Karen Hom. They began by discussing the ch...

Our 2024 Women in Treasury APAC Forum took place in July, with sponsored welcome reception and special fireside chat with MUFG and a presentation celebrating our 2024 APAC Within Award winners. In the panel discussion, four industry experts shared their career journeys and explored topics such as menopause and neurodivergence.

Marion Reuter, Standard Chartered’s Regional Head of Transaction Banking Sales UK/Europe, and Desiree Pires, Head of Corporate Sales, Markets also in Europe, outline the steps MNCs can take to reduce the risk of trapped cash.

From supplier diversification and ‘China plus’ strategies to unlocking liquidity from the balance sheet, Citi’s Sumanta Panigrahi discusses the latest trade trends in Asia.

Standard Chartered’s Richard Stansbury and Sunday Domingo discuss the industry shift to ISO 20022, the possible use cases corporate treasurers should be looking at, and how companies can prepare for the new standard.

On 12th October, Treasury Today Group concluded their 2023 global Women in Treasury tour with their US Forum, hosted in New York. Our four key industry experts discussed their career paths and offered advice around mentoring and the challenges of career and family life.

On 14th September, Treasury Today Group hosted their eleventh The Women in Treasury EMEA Forum in London. We celebrated our Women of the Year EMEA award winners and presented an exciting panel discussion with four industry experts, discussing equity, leadership and their career paths.

The Women in Treasury APAC Forum 2023, held in Singapore on 13th July, saw treasury experts from across the Asia Pacific region gather to champion female achievement. A new format for the event included a guest speaker fire-side chat and a presentation of our Women of the Year Awards for APAC. Our four key speakers on the panel discussed their career stories and shared their thoughts on diversity...

This is awarded to a company which is that little bit different, doesn’t quite fit one of the other categories and is recognised by our judges as a result of the specific field in which the company operates, the particular solution it has implemented or simply because it stands out as being different. [01:51] Overall Winner – Olam Group. Their partner Ricky Kaura, Standard Chartered talks about th...

This category looks at how a company has implemented a treasury related solution, or is in the process of being implemented, on a regional basis – a regional solution is defined as five countries or more. [01:38] Overall Winner – Daniel Teo, Bridgestone Asia with [03:12] Lillian Sim, J.P. Morgan. [05:16] Highly Commended Winner – BYD Company. Their partner Amy Hu, Citi talks about their winning co...

This category looks at foreign exchange and could be the use of technology, a new process, change to a hedging strategy or a new FX requirement as a result of entering a new market or dealing with a new currency and/or client/supplier. [01:28] Overall Winner – Xiaomi Corporation. Their partner Ji Yang, Citi speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. [04:07] Highly Commended Winner – Ku...

In this episode, we take a look at the overall and highly commended winners of our best digitisation solution, another new category for 2022 to address the emerging digital solutions. Perhaps the company has reengineered its processes, where digitisation is a key enabler. Perhaps the use of API’s is central to the solution, or maybe the company has deployed a mobile technology solution. We have he...

Companies in Asia are looking to increase the efficiency of their liquidity management practices while minimising risk. This requires a combination of intelligent systems, real-time solutions and expert guidance, says Citi’s Sandip Patil, Asia Pacific Liquidity Management Services Head and Digital Assets Lead.

This category looks at sustainability and how corporate treasury can play it’s part in addressing ESG issues, climate change and CO2 emissions. [01:23] Overall Winner – Bee Lin, Senior Manager, Investor Relations, Lendlease Global Commercial REIT with [04:48] Melvin Dineshraj, Citi and [06:07] Mark Yeo, OCBC. [08:26] Highly Commended Winner – Louis Dreyfus Company. Their partner Ashish Pandey, Cit...