lAs organisations expand across markets and jurisdictions, treasury teams are being challenged to scale their operations while maintaining control, compliance, and visibility.

This session draws on real‑world case studies from Asia‑Pacific organisations managing complex treasury environments at scale, exploring how digital transformation is being applied in practice to support growth. The discussion will examine how treasury teams are modernising their operating models through integrated systems, automation, and analytics — and what this looks like beyond theory.

Through practical examples, the session will explore how treasurers are addressing multi‑jurisdictional complexity, automating compliance and reporting, and creating seamless data flows between treasury, ERP, and reporting systems. It will also consider the efficiency gains achieved by reducing manual processes, allowing treasury teams to focus more on strategic decision‑making and business partnership.

Attendees will gain insights into the challenges, trade-offs, and change management considerations involved in digital transformation, including how teams, processes, and governance frameworks must evolve to support innovation in a sustainable way.

Speakers and Panellists:
Chin Shiang Tan, Senior Pre-sales Director, Kyriba 
Regina Aldridge-McNamara, Director, Treasury, AirTrunk
Matt Benaron, CEO, VantagePoint

Moderator: Aidan McDonald, VP Sales APAC, Kyriba

As treasury functions navigate ongoing volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and structural change in global markets, many teams are focused on optimising today’s operations, often at the expense of preparing for what comes next.

This scenario-based session explores emerging risks and opportunities that treasurers may not yet be actively discussing, using real-world examples to examine how leading organisations are responding. Through a series of forward-looking scenarios, the session will examine how treasurers are balancing immediate priorities such as liquidity management and operational resilience with longer-term considerations around evolving payment models, trade flows, and working capital optimisation. Corporate perspectives will be used to illustrate how treasury teams are making decisions in an uncertain environment, and how they are preparing for structural shifts that may reshape treasury operations over time.

Attendees will gain insight into how treasurers can think more strategically about what’s ahead and how to position their treasury function to remain resilient, adaptable, and forward looking.

Speakers and Panellists:
Manoj Dugar, MD and Regional Head of Global Payments Solutions, Asia Pacific, HSBC
Tracy Lam, Treasurer, Imdex
Naomi Reid, Director of Payment Operations for APAC, ADP
Rakesh Patwari, MD and Regional Head of Solutions Structuring, Asia; Global Trade Solutions, HSBC
Eddie Collis, Treasurer, Orora

Moderators:
Nadia Ladak, Country Head of Global Trade Solutions, HSBC Australia and New Zealand
Navaid Khatib, Head of Product, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Australia and New Zealand

"Why is there a $10M hole in my P&L if we’re 'fully hedged'?"

It’s the question every Treasurer dreads from their CFO or Board. You’ve executed a perfect economic hedge, but the accounting standards have other ideas. Between market movements and hedge strategies, the gap between economic reality and financial reporting has never felt wider.

Join us for a high-octane session featuring Warrick Merry as our "skeptical Executive," alongside a powerhouse panel including Winson Chan (Ausgrid) and Steve Cunico (Deloitte). We’ll skip the dry theory and dive straight into the real-world noise that keeps Treasurers up at night.

What you’ll learn:

• Hedge Accounting 1st Principles
• How to explain hedge ineffectiveness to non-technical stakeholders without losing the room.
• Why a perfect hedge can still look "messy" on the balance sheet and P&L.
• Strategies to align economic risk management with IFRS 9 compliance.

Speakers:
Winson Chan, Senior Treasury and Insurance Manager, Ausgrid
Steven Cunico, Partner, Audit & Assurance, Deloitte

Three players. Ten minutes each. Big claims. Let’s see who delivers.

In this fast-paced, dragon-style showdown, leaders from banking, treasury systems, and payment technology go head-to-head to prove how AI is being used in real treasury environments today.

Each presenter has just 10 minutes to demonstrate practical AI in action — from forecasting and liquidity visibility to payments intelligence, risk insights, and decision support.

No long slides.
No theory.
No hiding behind buzzwords.

Just fast demos, bold claims, and real use cases — with the audience deciding who impresses most.

Designed to cut through the hype, this session focuses on tangible outcomes, real-world examples, and how treasury teams can leverage AI to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.

Fast. Practical. Competitive. Unfiltered
Don’t miss this one.

Featuring:
Bank of America | Ripple Treasury | FIS

Moderator: George Wong, Treasury & Capital Markets, Deloitte

Speakers:
Rich Clow - Managing Director, Head of Innovation and Strategy, Bank of America
Rob McGuinness – Managing Director, APAC & Middle East Sales, Ripple Treasury
Nick Schmidt - Senior Sales Solution Consultant, APAC, FIS

As financing markets evolve, corporate treasurers are increasingly being presented with alternative funding structures that sit somewhere between traditional debt and equity. These structures are gaining prominence as banks, investors, and corporates respond to changing market conditions, capital constraints, and risk considerations.

This session explores what these alternative financing structures are, why they are being discussed more frequently today, and what is driving their use in the current environment. Drawing on a rating agency perspective, the discussion will examine how structures such as asset ringfenced financings, joint venture arrangements, and hybrid instruments are assessed, and the factors that influence whether they receive full or partial debt treatment.

Using real-world examples, the session will also consider the corporate perspective — why certain structures may be attractive for some organisations, why they may be less suitable for others, and what treasurers should be mindful of when evaluating these options. Attendees will gain practical insights into how alternative financing structures can affect balance sheet outcomes, risk profiles, and strategic flexibility.

Speakers:
Matthew Moore, Associate Managing Director, Corporate Finance, Moody’s Ratings
Gwen Greenberg, Head of Debt Capital Markets Australia, ANZ
Lilly Cheung, Group Treasurer, Transgrid
Taylor McDonald, Deputy Group Treasurer, Ampol Limited

Corporate treasury is moving beyond periodic reporting toward an operating model defined by real‑time visibility, intelligent automation and controlled execution. The differentiator is no longer simply faster payments or new instruments—it is the ability to convert high‑quality, real‑time data into measurable client outcomes through AI‑enabled workflows.

This panel examines how GenAI, modern payment rails (NPP/PayTo) and ISO 20022 enriched data are converging to compress the payment‑to‑reconciliation cycle, improve liquidity confidence, reduce exceptions, and create a pathway from insight to (governed) autonomy. It is grounded in practical experience——and focuses on what is working today, what is scaling next, and what “safe adoption” looks like in mission‑critical finance workflows.

A distinctive element of the session is the explicit client‑impact innovation lens: Shannon Peachey will anchor the discussion in what corporate clients are actually adopting, where innovation is delivering measurable impact now (liquidity certainty, working capital efficiency, operational resilience), and where the next opportunity set lies across treasury, payments, trade and working capital.

Digital assets and tokenised settlement are addressed as a selective extension layer—important in institutional experimentation and regulatory evolution, but intentionally not the centre of gravity of this conversation, which is focused on AI + data + modern rails.

Moderato: Brett Healy, Head of Liquidity Management & Advisory, NAB

Speakers:
Kelly Walsh, Vice President, Customer Success & Global Services, Trovata
Jonathan Adams, EGM Payments & Digital Assets, NAB
Shannon Peachey, EGM Trade, Transaction Banking & Working Capital, NAB

Despite increasing digitisation across treasury, bank guarantees and letters of credit remain areas where many organisations continue to rely on manual, fragmented, and email‑driven processes. As operations scale across entities and jurisdictions, these legacy approaches can limit visibility, control, and efficiency.

This session explores what effective digitalisation of bank guarantees and letters of credit looks like in practice for treasury teams. Drawing on real‑world case study experience, the discussion will examine how corporates are centralising the management of trade finance instruments, standardising workflows, and improving governance across approval, fee management, and reporting processes.

The session will also consider the broader ecosystem perspective, including how financial institutions assess “good” digitalisation — focusing not on interfaces, but on operating models that reduce friction, support automation, and scale across geographies and volumes. Attendees will gain practical insights into how structured data, clear workflow governance, and integrated connectivity can deliver shared benefits for corporates and banks, while strengthening risk management and operational resilience.

Speakers:
Tim-Emilien Tran Ngoc, Managing Director, Komgo
Dane Birdseye, GM Treasury & Commercial Finance, Pacific Energy Group
Adam Rowe, Executive Director, Head of Trade Finance, Westpac

In a year defined by volatility and rapid change, treasurers face an unprecedented mix of financial, operational and strategic risks.

This fast‑paced session brings senior corporate treasurers together to unpack the most critical threats shaping treasury today — from liquidity pressures and market volatility to cyber risk, counterparty exposure, ESG requirements, technology disruption and refinancing challenges. Through sharp insights, real‑world scenarios and moderated debate, the panel will explore how leading organisations are strengthening resilience and adapting their risk frameworks. Attendees will leave with practical actions to protect performance and future‑proof their treasury function.

Speakers:
Alistair Graham, Group Treasurer, CitiPower and Powercor
Carol Lydford, Treasurer, Snowy Hydro
Darren Lake, Group Treasurer, Mirvac

Moderator: Kurt Smith, Techical Director for ACTA and Directo for Marengo Capital