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.

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 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 changes AI promises.

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.

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 and inclusion.

In our latest podcast with Standard Chartered, Tarek El-Yafi, Regional Head of Cash Management Sales, and Karen Hom, Managing Director of Transaction Banking, discuss working capital solutions, the importance of technology, and what a well-run treasury should look like.

In the third episode of the Innovation at Standard Chartered podcast, Waqar Chaudry, Executive Director – Innovation, Financing & Securities Services, and Rene Michau, Global Head, Digital Assets, explain why digital assets are a 'today problem' that cannot be put off until tomorrow.

On 25th November 2022, senior financial professionals from across the Asia Pacific region gathered at Raffles hotel in Singapore for the ninth Women in Treasury APAC Forum. As well as celebrating women in the world of treasury, the annual event has also become a powerful voice in furthering diversity and inclusion.

We are joined by Citi's Lorraine Donnelly, EMEA Industry Sales Head, Healthcare & Consumer Goods Clients, Treasury & Trade Solutions and Laura Fogarty, Healthcare Industry Head to discuss the latest developments at Citi surrounding the intersection of technology and healthcare as industry sectors and how the bank categorises these different supergroups.

On 19th October, senior financial professionals from across the United States gathered at the Manhattan Midtown Loft and Terrace for the seventh Women in Treasury New York Forum. Our four key speakers discussed their career paths, shared their thoughts on diversity and inclusion and offering advice from overcoming cultural differences, mentoring and the challenges of career and family life.

This is the tenth year of our Women in Treasury EMEA Forum and our four experts discussed their career journeys and shared insights on how they have shaped their own leadership style. They also spoke about the efficacy of quotas and some of the enduring challenges for women in treasury including the stigma of maternity leave in the US, and concerns about returning to work after a break.

Standard Chartered’s Head of Client Analytics Oksana Pidkuyko explains how companies can navigate today’s heightened risks by developing hedging strategies that turn volatility into a friend rather than a foe.