Treasury Talks podcast series

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Jul 2026

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Through candid conversations with industry experts, Treasury Talks explores long standing industry issues, emerging trends and best practices. Gain personal insights and actionable advice from those at the forefront of corporate finance.

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July 28, 202619 min

Episode 46: Adam Smith Awards special

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.

April 30, 202616 min

Standard Chartered: Real-time treasury: why EU legislation will unlock SEPA Instant for corporates

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.

March 17, 202615 min

Standard Chartered: Smarter forecasts with AI

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.

December 9, 20259 min

Episode 45: Women in Treasury & Finance US Forum 2025

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.

December 4, 202522 min

Standard Chartered: Tokenised MMFs and stablecoins: how digital assets are powering treasury modernisation

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.

October 30, 202511 min

Episode 44: Women in Treasury & Finance EMEA Forum 2025

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.

September 3, 202510 min

Episode 43: Women in Treasury & Finance APAC Forum 2025

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.

July 30, 202513 min

Standard Chartered: Why AI holds the key to treasury metamorphosis

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.

December 19, 202420 min

Standard Chartered: Innovation in cross-border payments

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.

December 3, 202418 min

Standard Chartered: How Siemens and Standard Chartered harnessed blockchain to transform 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.