Educational Sessions
AFP 2025 features 130+ unbiased sessions across seven tracks. A practitioner task force reviews every session and selects the final lineup, ensuring relevant, practical, and impactful content.
With every session designed for learning, not selling — you're guaranteed unbiased, actionable insights. Check out the sessions currently released:
- Capital Markets & Investments
- Career Development
- Executive Institute
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Payments
- Risk Management
- Treasury Management
Look for the entire session line-up in July.
Capital Markets & Investments
Future-Proofing Your Capital: The Evolving Role of Banks and Private Lenders
Amid supply chain uncertainties, the rise of M&A opportunities, and broader economic shifts, Treasurers and CFOs must ensure their capital structure allows for the flexibility needed to respond with agility. Missteps in this area can be costly, underscoring the importance of careful planning and strategic decision-making in building the right debt and capital structure. In this interactive session attendees analyze several mock offers drawn from real-world scenarios, each presenting its own risks and rewards, and identify common fine print caveats, and select the most optimal proposal.
Is Your Working Capital Working as Hard as You Do? Innovative Strategies for Improvement
Effective working capital management and optimizing the cash conversion cycle are critical for a well-run company. In this panel discussion, industry experts share the latest strategies for addressing short-term financial needs, improving cash flow, and unlocking funding options. The session also explores advancements in supply chain finance, dynamic discounting, receivables finance, and inventory management—demonstrating how these solutions can enhance the cash conversion cycle by extending payables, accelerating receivables, and optimizing inventory.
Treasury’s Role in Driving Working Capital Optimization Leveraging Supply Chain Finance
Supply chain disruptions during Covid emphasized the direct impact on a company’s financial health spurring companies to explore alternative strategies to free up liquidity and seek out working capital solution in Supply Chain Finance (SCF). SCF differs from typical financing arrangements as it involves multiple stakeholders, including treasury, procurement, finance, accounting, IT, and suppliers. From a treasurer's perspective, these perceived complexities could potentially hinder implementation and stall progress toward improving working capital metrics. This session explores the diverse aspects of SCF, recent developments, such as Sustainable SCF, to help treasurers make informed decisions about SCF adoption.
The Secret is Out: Riding the Yield Curve
Corporate organizations have held excess cash post-COVID, often allocating it to short-term or cash-like instruments due to an inverted yield curve. While safety and liquidity remain top priorities, yield became a key driver of investment decisions in recent years—shaped by Fed policy, regional bank stress, MMF rule changes, and market volatility. Now, with the yield curve beginning to normalize, it’s time to rethink cash deployment strategies. This session explores how current yield curve dynamics, and 2025 market developments are influencing corporate cash allocations and what treasury teams should consider in response.
Supply Chain Finance vs Inventory Financing: Choosing the Right Solution for Cash Flow Optimization
In today’s liquidity-focused environment, companies are turning to alternative financing tools like Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and Inventory Financing (IF) to optimize cash flow. SCF allows buyers to extend payment terms while giving suppliers access to early payments through third-party financing—enhancing supplier health without using physical assets as collateral. IF, on the other hand, leverages inventory as collateral to unlock capital, supporting seasonal demand or slow-moving stock without altering supplier terms. In this session, speakers share real-world examples of how organizations use SCF and IF to increase financial flexibility and resilience.
A Tale of Two Investment Strategies: Global Enterprise vs Domestic Non-Profit
Treasurers’ investments in money markets have surged to record highs, yet many practitioners remain unfamiliar with the full range of available instruments and strategies. In this session, two treasury leaders, each managing active portfolios within very different organizational structures and objectives, share the core components of their approaches. They reveal how distinct policies, goals, and risk tolerances shape investment decisions and highlight the diverse money market vehicles available to treasury teams today. Attendees gain a clearer understanding of how to align investment choices with business needs, adapt to changing market conditions, and make more informed, strategic decisions in the evolving money market landscape.
The Rise of Private Credit: Trends, Structuring Considerations and Access to Capital
As the broadly syndicated loan market tightened, corporate borrowers increasingly turned to the rapidly growing private credit market—now comparable in size. This session features insights from a private credit lender, investment banker, and legal counsel on how companies are using private credit to refinance, reprice debt, or secure funds for M&A activity. With private credit filling gaps left by traditional lending, treasury professionals must understand its distinct advantages, risks, and key loan terms. Attendees gain clarity on the evolving credit landscape and what to consider when evaluating private credit as a funding source in today’s shifting capital markets.
Navigating Credit Renewal and Refinancing Risk in an Uncertain Interest Rate Environment
Failure to secure liquidity and effectively manage refinancing risk can leave a corporation at risk of liquidity shortages, higher borrowing costs, or even insolvency. As corporations manage their refinancing needs in an uncertain and high-interest rate environment - it is crucial to proactively review risk guidance and assess current market conditions. Join this session of leading treasury practitioners as they share industry insights and best practice workflows for renewing credit facilities and managing refinancing risk under market uncertainty.
Blueprints from the Boardroom: Crafting a Winning Investment Framework
Every organization, from local businesses to global corporations, has a unique approach to delivering value. Similarly, each investment portfolio requires a tailored strategy. In a world shaped by unpredictable events—such as bank collapses, interest rate shifts, geopolitical tensions, and M&A activity—investors must assess opportunities with precision. This session provides a solid framework for navigating uncertainty, understanding risks, assessing credit quality, and applying best practices for cash investments. Attendees can expect actionable insights on creating a robust investment plan that minimizes risk, ensures financial stability, and safeguards against potential losses.
Beyond Borders: Global Netting for Multinationals
Multinational companies face challenges managing intercompany transactions due to geopolitical, economic, and regulatory factors. Trade and non-trade intercompany A/R and A/P invoices often require settlement through funds movement. Companies typically operate regional Treasury hubs for local expertise and efficiency, managing liquidity and payments between affiliates. While in-house banks or cash pooling can manage cash and transactions, these may not be feasible due to varying ERP systems and regulatory concerns. This session share insights on how global netting can reduce cash movement, improve cash visibility, lower working capital borrowings, centralize FX risk management, and streamline intercompany invoicing across multiple countries for enhanced efficiency and compliance.
Career Development
Message Received: Mastering Effective Communication
Communicating effectively can be challenging when differing personality traits unintentionally undermine our message. This engaging and interactive session explores the art and science of impactful communication, providing participants with tools to ensure their messages resonate and inspire action. Through hands-on exercises, attendees uncover their own core personality types, understand how others may perceive them, and develop the skills to bridge communication gaps. The session dives into the power of word choice, verbal and non-verbal cues, and the importance of both substance and structure. Participants gain practical techniques to strengthen connections and communicate more effectively in any setting.
Using Neuroscience to Lead Through Change
Organizations often struggle to adapt to rapid change, leaving leaders, teams, and individuals feeling overwhelmed and stalling progress. Understanding why change feels threatening—and how to reframe it as an opportunity—is key to thriving in today’s dynamic environment. This looks at the neuroscience behind change to illustrate how the brain perceives change and offers strategies to reframe responses. By examining change from both organizational and individual perspectives, attendees gain practical tools to build resilience, adaptability, and a growth mindset.
Creating Lean, Mean & Impactful Teams
How do finance and treasury professionals maximize impact when resources are stretched thin? Learn from the Dallas Cowboys and Abt Associates’ treasury managers who have successfully built a modern cash reporting command center while keeping their teams lean and mean. Speakers share how they prioritize high-impact activities, leverage automation tools like APIs to reduce manual workflows and enhance visibility for more effective decision-making. The discussion also explores ways to build workflows that evolve with your organization’s growth and empower your team with skills that drive continuous improvement—all without adding headcount. Leave with actionable insights to make your department a powerhouse of efficiency and value.
Building & Amplifying Your Professional Brand
In today’s competitive professional environment, technical expertise alone isn’t enough to stand out. Standing out also demands a strong online presence and a well-designed and strategic personal brand. In this engaging session, experts explore why personal branding is vital for career success and share practical strategies to help you build a compelling digital identity. You’ll learn how to create an effective LinkedIn profile, promote yourself with confidence, and position yourself as a leader in your field. Whether you're launching your career or refining your online presence, this session offers essential tools to elevate your visibility and stay ahead.
Stop Overthinking: Practical Strategies to Relieve Stress
Chronic stress isn’t just exhausting, it’s a serious health risk linked to heart disease, anxiety, depression, and cognitive decline. In high-pressure environments, it’s often fueled by overthinking: second-guessing, replaying conversations, fearing judgment, and racing to meet demands. These thoughts drain mental energy, disrupt brain chemistry, and impair well-being. This session introduces practical strategies to address that—meditation to rewire stress patterns through neuroplasticity, breathwork to regulate the nervous system, and thought-feeling awareness to recondition habitual responses to stress and speed recovery. Learn how to shift from reactivity to resilience with simple, science-backed techniques you can start using right away.
Storytelling Moves Finance from Data to Decision-Making
Everyone loves a good story—but at work, we often struggle to apply storytelling to everyday communication. For finance professionals, the ability to present complex data clearly and persuasively is essential. In this interactive session, you’ll learn a practical storytelling framework you can use right away—in presentations, one-pagers, or emails. Discover how a shared communication approach can accelerate decision-making, boost productivity, and help you show value to the business. You’ll also see real before-and-after examples from finance that bring data storytelling to life. This is a hands-on session, so come ready to engage and participate!
EQ-TQ-IQ Trinity: Unlocking Leadership Excellence in a Complex World
With 85% of career success tied to emotional intelligence (EQ), today’s finance leaders must balance EQ with technical (TQ) and intellectual intelligence (IQ) to thrive. This session explores how the fusion of EQ, TQ, and IQ shape well-rounded leaders who can navigate ambiguity, inspire high-performing teams, and drive lasting strategic impact. Walk away with practical strategies to strengthen your leadership edge and lead with clarity, confidence, and influence.
Project Gremlins and How to Slay Them
Throughout your career, you’ll likely manage or be part of a project. For treasury and finance professionals, project management skills are often underdeveloped, limiting growth. This session highlights common pain points and teaches you to recognize when these "gremlins" appear. Using real examples, risks and mitigation strategies to ensure project success are explored. While not making you an expert, this session provides you with the tools to identify and manage risks effectively. As you gain experience, you’ll become adept at spotting these Gremlins.
Successful Strategies for Navigating Career Challenges
Most careers don't progress in a straight line – they’re often presented with different challenges and opportunities along the way. How you respond to each can significantly impact the direction your career takes. Hear how your peers are thriving in their fields, while navigating career challenges in the face of complexity and uncertainty. This panel of industry experts shares insights from their career journeys, including weighing the decision to relocate, tactics that have proven successful when entering a new role, and how they see automation changing their roles in both the near and long term.
Building High-Performing Teams Across Generations & Cultures
As the workforce becomes increasingly diverse, technical leaders must develop the skills to lead teams that span multiple cultures and generations. Successfully managing a team with varying perspectives, communication styles, and expectations requires more than technical expertise. It demands adaptability, empathy, and a keen understanding of how to foster psychologically safe environments. This session addresses the challenges finance professionals face in creating an inclusive and high-performing environment while maintaining a ‘people over profit’ approach in every step of the way. Leave with actionable strategies for bridging generational divides, leveraging cultural diversity for innovation, and fostering an atmosphere where all employees feel valued and empowered.
It's About Time: Productive Practices in a Distracting World
There never seems to be enough time in the day for the number of things we need to get done. This playful workshop addresses common issues with planning, pressured prioritization, and multitasking. We’ll dive into delegating, task shifting, and the value of uninterrupted time with practical approaches to getting things done. Attendees explore their work style, task management skills, and their strengths and struggles while building out their productivity practices. Learn simple strategies to conquer procrastination and optimize your efficiency through engaging activities and joyful interaction.
Executive Institute
Exclusively for executive corporate practitioners.
Shoring Up Reshored Supply Chains
Geopolitical uncertainty has accelerated the global shift towards near-shoring and re-shoring, driving companies to strengthen their supply chains. However, enhancing supply chain resilience often means entering unfamiliar jurisdictions, exposing businesses to new country and counterparty risks. This discussion examines the evolving treasury landscape across multiple regions, offering actionable strategies to manage payment risks when engaging with new counterparties. Experts in international trade will share valuable insights on navigating the complexities of the global trade environment, including both the traditional use of letters of credit and emerging payment trends worldwide.
How AI Frees Finance Professionals Time to Unlock Strategy
Finance and treasury professionals are buried in tasks, drowning in spreadsheets, and stuck in reaction mode. AI is the game-changer that reclaims your time, reduces burnout, and elevates your leadership. In this interactive session, witness AI in action—from automating reports to detecting fraud in real-time. Learn how AI cuts through the noise, freeing you to focus on high-impact decision-making. Discover the 3 AI wins every finance pro should implement now and walk away with a practical action plan. AI isn’t replacing finance leaders—it’s empowering them to be unstoppable. Take control of AI before it controls you!
“You should never stop learning. If you come here, you're going to be learning. It's the perfect area and atmosphere to learn.”
Mario Vasquez, FPAC - Director of Finance, EW Smiths Company
Financial Planning & Analysis
From Budgets to Rolling Forecasts: How Finance Can Influence EBITDA, Cash Flow, and Enterprise Value
Traditional, static budgeting restrict flexibility by locking organizations into rigid targets. In contrast, rolling forecasts provide a dynamic framework that enables finance teams to realign the company’s financial plans in response to evolving conditions. By integrating financial planning, strategy, and leadership communication, rolling forecasts empower finance teams to improve capital allocation, enhance financial stability, and maximize long-term enterprise value. This session emphasizes finance’s proactive role in shaping outcomes, not just reporting performance and gives attendees a framework for adopting rolling forecasts and a model that links forecasting with key valuation drivers for immediate application.
Using Generative AI Day to Day in FP&A
Generative AI is bringing new capabilities to Finance teams and with it the opportunity to drive more impact across the organization. However, identifying the most valuable applications and equipping teams with the knowledge and skills needed to use Generative AI effectively and productively poses many challenges. This session demonstrates how finance teams can integrate Generative AI into their operations to unlock new value, Through real cases, presenters share specific examples of successful implementation that enhance decision-making, uncover innovative solutions and accelerate business outcomes. They also uncover the conditions that encouraged them to experiment and create these use cases.
Driving Action Through Data: A Playbook for Finance Leaders
Data is abundant, yet transforming insights into actionable outcomes remains a major challenge for finance leaders. Too often, valuable analysis fails to drive meaningful change because it doesn't connect with decision-makers effectively. In this session, finance leaders share practical strategies and a proven playbook for leveraging data to influence decisions, drive strategic action, and foster alignment across executive teams. Grounded in behavioral insights and real-world finance experience, this framework provides attendees with a structured approach to presenting data that bridges the gap between finance, strategy, and execution, making decision-making more effective and impactful.
Tech Up Your Team: The Skills and Plan to Build an FP&A Powerhouse
FP&A is evolving into an AI-driven strategic hub that delivers real-time insights and supports predictive decision-making. But how do we get from here to there? This session dives into the current and emerging technologies transforming predictive analytics and decision intelligence, highlighting how to align investments with business priorities and ROI. You'll gain a clear roadmap for identifying the new skills finance teams need, designing targeted learning paths, and positioning FP&A as a strategic partner within your organization.
Financial Data Analysis Drives Strategic Decision-Making
Businesses are undergoing significant transformation, driven by shifting customer expectations, evolving regulations, and emerging technologies. This session explores how to leverage data-driven forecasting to proactively navigate these industry shifts and position your organization for long-term stability. Attendees gain practical insights from leading financial executives on utilizing data and analytics, forecasting revenue models, optimizing customer experience, and maintaining organizational agility in a changing regulatory environment.
The Rise of AI Agents Within Corporate Finance Teams
AI agents are transforming finance teams by functioning as collaborative partners - executing tasks and taking directions. This panel shares experiences of integrating AI agents into financial processes for better reporting, predictive forecasting, and data analysis. This session defines and differentiates AI agents from other forms of AI and offers practical guidelines for adopting this technology, preparing their team for a technological shift, addressing ethical considerations, and using AI agents to gain a competitive edge.
AI, Automation, Transformation and Improved Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Free Cash Flow (FCF) generation is a key IBM enterprise metric, garnering significant focus from external analysts, investors, and senior management. Before 2023, the process to measure and manage FCF was cumbersome, manual and complex, raising concerns around data integrity and operational connectivity. The company addressed this challenge by implementing machine learning and automation solutions to generate actionable insights resulting in a $2.5 billion increase in FCF. Attend this session to hear how the strategy, design, and build teams developed this solution, what they learned along the way, why it has been successful, and what’s coming next.
Adaptive Budgeting for Strategy and Flexibility
Adaptive budgeting offers a transformative approach to budgeting and financial planning that enables companies to thrive in a competitive, volatile landscape. Blending elements from zero-based budgeting and scenario planning, a global industrial conglomerate prioritized expenditures based on strategic goals, optimized resource allocation, reassessed and adjusted budgets to align with evolving business needs. This approach significantly enhanced their financial discipline and strategic alignment. Attend this session to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key principles, including strategic alignment, ZBB, scenario planning, and dynamic tracking and monitoring to navigate uncertainty, improve cost efficiency and drive strategic growth.
Unlocking the Chamber of Secrets: Optimizing Planning, Resource Management, & Reporting at Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, faced fragmented, manual, Excel-driven FP&A processes lacking standardization and visibility. Labor cost planning was burdensome, and cost allocations were unclear. With new FP&A leadership, Scholastic launched a multi-phase roadmap to streamline operations, unify Corporate, Segments, and Shared Services, and implement scalable EPM and data integration platforms. The transformation improved planning, reporting, and analytics while delivering a 360° business view. Discover how this initiative reduced cycle times, strengthened business partnerships, and enabled better decision-making through enhanced efficiency and transparency.
Bridging the Gap Between Short-Term and Long-Term Planning
Aligning short-term financial goals with long-term strategic objectives is an increasingly complex challenge for companies. Short-term planning focuses on immediate targets, while long-term planning centers on innovation, product development, and market expansion. These goals are often siloed, leading to inefficiencies, and missed growth opportunities. Learn how one finance team connected these points of view by leveraging short-term planning details, dimensional flexibility, and EPM business rules to create an accurate mid-range outlook, bolstering confidence in short-term planning and providing clarity for long-term strategic goals.
Unlocking Financial Insights Through Automated Reporting
As organizations grow, financial visibility often becomes fragmented across regions, products, and customers—limiting strategic insight. Without a flexible, integrated approach to financial data, key trends and risks can be missed. This session demonstrates how to build an automated, scalable reporting framework that consolidates data from multiple sources into real-time P&L views by product, segment, customer, and geography. By aligning financial data with operational dynamics, businesses can quickly respond to shifts in customer behavior, acquisitions, or market changes—while maintaining strategic control. The result: sharper decision-making, stronger leadership alignment, and improved organizational agility and health.
Building Financial Models for Effective Decision-Making
Treasury and finance professionals depend on accurate models for budgeting, forecasting, and risk management, making adherence to best practices essential. Poorly built models can lead to flawed decisions in corporate finance, FP&A, and investment analysis. This interactive session explores the tools and techniques needed to build best-in-class financial models that inspire confidence and support better decision-making. Through a live Excel demonstration, attendees learn practical skills and techniques for structuring models, conducting thorough reviews, and identifying errors to enhance accuracy and reliability.
"There's a great educational component. It’s broken down to different tracks where you can really find whatever is important to you, but more importantly, there are so many people you can learn from.”
James Dillard - Treasury Product Manager, Texas Capital Bank
Payments
Harnessing the Power of Instant Payments: Transforming Corporate Finance
As instant payments become the standard in financial transactions, businesses are rapidly integrating real-time payment solutions to enhance cash flow, streamline operations, and address evolving customer and vendor expectations. This session highlights how organizations across industries are leveraging instant payments for payroll, supplier transactions, treasury management, and customer payments to remain competitive in an era of real-time financial transactions.
The Final Leg…You’ve Arrived at Your Destination: ISO 20022
In November 2025, ISO 20022 will become the standard for intrabank payment messaging, reshaping the global treasury space. Although the current scope of the ISO 20022 change is focused on financial institutions, corporates will likely have to adapt their systems to process richer, structured transactions within the next year. This session looks at how technology is harmonizing global payment messaging, to enable faster, more transparent international transactions, and driving innovation through real-time payments and APIs. It provides actionable strategies for deploying ISO 20022 to support business growth and enhance operational effectiveness.
Dark Web, AI, and Data Breaches: A Treasury & Finance Fraud Survival Guide
Fraud is evolving rapidly, driven by data breaches, dark web activity, and AI-powered attacks that allow cybercriminals to scale their operations. Treasury and finance environments are prime targets for advanced schemes such as phishing, smishing, account takeovers, social engineering, and synthetic identity fraud. AI-driven tactics escalate financial exposure, making it vital for treasury and finance teams to implement proactive measures. This session offers forward-looking insights and practical tools to help organizations mitigate risk, improve efficiency, and stay ahead in the fight against fraud.
Secure, Swift, and Seamless: Unleashing the Power of a Payment Factory
A centralized, robust Treasury Management System (TMS) that can support enterprise payments is a catalyst for transformation, streamlining operations, bolstering control, and reducing transaction costs. In this era of digital transformation, treasury practitioners are harnessing the power of technology to automate and optimize reporting and payment processes. Attend this session to discover how Implementing a TMS can significantly improve the efficiency and precision of payment processes, cash forecasting, delivering measurable value across the entire organization.
Transforming Treasury with Instant Recurring Payments
The U.S. instant payments market has seen slow but steady growth in Request for Payment capabilities expanding from “pilot” use cases to targeted full-production use cases. The next major development may be Instant Recurring Payments. Join this session as speakers dive into how Instant Recurring Payments can help Treasury and Finance practitioners unlock innovative use cases to better serve their customers. This discussion also covers key benefits, potential challenges, and provides a preview of emerging solutions coming to the market.
AI in Payments: Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Payments Efficiency
Artificial intelligence has the potential to automate reconciliation, detect fraud, optimize liquidity, and forecasting. However, innovation brings complexity. How can industry stakeholders navigate AI's risks and challenges while unlocking its full potential? This panel features experts from the payments and treasury ecosystem discussing AI's impact on operational efficiency, compliance, fraud prevention, and cash flow optimization. Panelists share real-world applications, address data privacy, bias, and regulatory scrutiny, and explore strategies for responsible AI adoption.
Transforming Payments: A Treasurer's Story
As technology advances and consumer expectations evolve, businesses must innovate to stay competitive. UPS shares their journey in launching a transformation project, highlighting the value they unlocked through savings, enhanced controls, and improved visibility and ownership. This discussion covers current trends, challenges, and the future prospects of payment transformation, offering insights into the evolving payment ecosystem. Gain a comprehensive understanding of payment transformation, from traditional methods to cutting-edge innovations, and learn how to drive initiatives anchored in cost savings and trust-building within organizations.
Guardians of the Vault: Mastering Banking Instruction Verification to Combat Fraud in the Digital Age Payments
In today's digital landscape, financial transactions are at greater risk than ever due to sophisticated cyber threats. Fraudulent attempts to manipulate banking instructions—through email hacking, invoice alterations, or identity deception—are increasingly common. Detecting these interventions too late can severely impact an organization's finances, reputation, and partner relationships. Robust banking instruction verifications are essential. Attend this session to explore international banking verification challenges, advanced fraud detection technology, and multi-layered security measures. Become an effective guardian, ensuring your organization remains secure and resilient against evolving cyber threats.
Navigating Global Payments and Treasury Management: Challenges, Success Strategies, and Innovations
As businesses expand globally, treasury management and international payments become increasingly complex they must navigate currency fluctuations, differing payment systems and standards, liquidity management practices, and evolving technologies to ensure seamless cross-border and in-country transactions. This panel discussion provides real-life examples, compares payment services, and examines emerging trends and innovative solutions in international treasury management.
Revolutionizing B2B Payments with Virtual Cards
The B2B payments space has evolved over the last several decades. Once inefficient and manual, these types of payments are now faster, and more secure. A key development in this transformation is the rise of virtual cards, which have streamlined financial operations, enhanced security, and provided greater control over spending to improve working capital. This session takes a deeper dive into the advantages of virtual card adoption-helping businesses streamline their payment processes, reduce administrative tasks, enhance efficiency and better tracking and reporting.
Driving Business Faster Payments Adoption: Give Them What They Want
Faster payments are no longer optional—they’re a critical capability for modern treasury and finance operations. Yet while nearly 70% of businesses view them as essential, according to the U.S. Faster Payments Council’s 2025 Barometer (sponsored by Volante Technologies), one-third remain unconvinced. This session addresses both sides of the adoption curve: for organizations not yet leveraging faster payments, learn how to build a compelling case for leadership by aligning benefits with strategic goals. For those already onboard, discover value-added services that can enhance existing capabilities.
Making Change: Closing the Gap in Cash Ecosystem Innovation
While deposit technologies—like smart safes, recyclers, and deposit ATMs—have advanced rapidly, innovation in change order processes has lagged, leaving a critical gap in the cash ecosystem. In this panel, treasury professionals from leading retailers share how they manage store change order needs using three distinct retail deposit solutions and the challenges they encounter. This discussion highlights how the imbalance between deposit and change order innovation limits operational efficiency, drives up costs, and hinders progress in broader cash management. Hear how top retailers are addressing these challenges and what innovations are needed to modernize the cash ecosystem.
Accelerating Global Commerce: The Impact of Real-Time Cross-Border Payments on Business Transformation
Cross-border transactions have surged with the global expansion of business opportunities. Global payments are projected to reach approximately $290 trillion by 2030, driven by trends such as borderless e-commerce, cross-border trade, and the digitalization of payments across industries. For businesses aiming to capitalize on global growth, real-time cross-border payment capabilities are becoming crucial. In this insightful panel discussion, industry experts explore how innovations in global payments are reducing friction and costs, the current landscape, and the complexities of cross-border payments, including the connectivity requirements for executing these faster transactions.
ISO20022 Migration: Implication for Corporate Treasury
SWIFT, CHIPS, Fedwire, and other market infrastructures are transitioning to the ISO 20022 standard, which encompasses payments and account statements. While migration is currently mandatory for banks, corporations in many countries can choose to adopt it voluntarily. Implementing ISO 20022 offers corporations the opportunity to automate and standardize treasury operations processes, such as payment initiation and reconciliation. However, upcoming clearing requirements for messaging, data, interoperability and implementation must be considered before these changes take effect in 2026. This session provides an overview of ISO 20022 standards for corporations, focusing on payments and account reporting, the benefits of implementation, and experiences from implementation projects.
Instant Payments Unveiled: Path to Success and Pitfalls to Avoid
Instant payments are rapidly reshaping the financial landscape, transforming how businesses operate and how consumers transact. As demand for faster, more secure payment solutions grows, understanding the key drivers of consumer adoption and the innovations fueling this shift is essential. This session explores the evolving world of instant payments—examining critical influences from user expectations to regulatory developments. Discover how emerging technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning are powering real-time transactions while enhancing security and reliability.
Implementing a Payments Hub between Bank and TMS for Efficiency, Nimbleness, Connectivity & Fewer IT Resources
As companies evolve toward more efficient operating models, treasury teams are under pressure to gain greater control, agility, and automation—often with limited IT resources. This session explores a compelling alternative to traditional payment processes through the implementation of a third-party payments hub. Panelists present a real-world case study highlighting how this model streamlines payment initiation, reduces reliance on internal programming, and seamlessly connects to banking partners via pre-established formats. A treasury practitioner walks through the full journey—from identifying challenges and evaluating options to execution and measurable results.
Global Payment Integration: Challenges and Solutions
With new payment processors entering the market daily, navigating options like PayPal, Stripe, and global merchant services have become increasingly complex—especially for multinational companies operating across varied legal and banking systems. This session demystifies the process of building a unified, intercontinental credit card processing system and offers practical guidance on navigating international regulations, including PCI and PII compliance, while maintaining high standards of security and operational efficiency. It also explores the technical challenges of integrating multiple banking systems and payment gateways, along with solutions to cross-border interoperability hurdles.
Risk Management
FX and Commodity Hedging During Uncertain and Volatile Markets
Recent geopolitical shifts, tariffs, export bans on key commodities combined with economic challenges in Europe and the UK, have pushed markets to the brink of unprecedented volatility, pressuring Treasurers to adjust their strategies and re-evaluate the effectiveness of existing hedging programs. In response to this complex environment, this session provides a comprehensive approach to establishing a resilient exposure risk management framework, outlines strategies for managing market volatility, reduces the costs associated with hedging, and explores the cost-benefit trade-offs of proxy hedging.
Are You Ready for a Crisis? Business Continuity Planning in Uncertain Times
Business disruptions and crises are becoming more frequent due to the growing risks posed by cyber-attacks, natural disasters, critical service provider failures, and the increasing demand for swift responses without compromising seamless service delivery. As a result, operational resilience, business continuity planning (BCP), and crisis response have become strategic priorities across all industries. Join this session for an in-depth exploration of how to develop a comprehensive understanding of your unique risk landscape, bolster your resilience strategy with effective crisis management plans and playbooks, and implement regular testing and exercises to ensure preparedness.
War Room: Treasury Leadership in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs
In the dynamic environment of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, Treasury teams are at the forefront, balancing the critical task of managing ongoing processes while preparing for the significant transitions across investments, hedging, financing, and banking relationships. This discussion brings together experienced treasurers, each sharing invaluable firsthand insights into how they effectively strategized, prioritized, and steered their organizations through the complexities of M&A. Attendees leave with a practical checklist for seamlessly bridging current and integrating processes along with key lessons learned from an "almost" acquisition that ultimately reverted to business as usual.
Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity: Leveraging AI, Analytics, and Technology for Risk Management Success
Market uncertainty and volatility are challenges every finance and treasury professional faces—so how can you turn these challenges into opportunities? This panel discussion addresses how finance and treasury professionals can stay ahead of the curve using proven strategies and cutting-edge tools like AI, predictive analytics, and scenario planning. This panel shares real-world experiences, demonstrating these techniques in a corporate setting and strategies to manage risk, enhance decision-making, and build organizational resilience.
Culture Shift: Treasury's Imperative Role in Vendor Onboarding to Mitigate Fraud
Treasurers and finance leaders typically prioritize optimizing cash flow, forecasting, and payment management, but often overlook a critical cultural blind spot—vendor onboarding and management. This session highlights how treasury’s disengagement from this process can expose organizations to increased risk, inefficiencies, and weakened financial controls. Learn how a company’s approach to vendor management can either mitigate or exacerbate fraud risks, affect payment strategies, and shape financial resilience. Examples of real-world fraud case studies uncover the hidden costs of inadequate onboarding practices and provide actionable strategies for driving cultural change within treasury and finance teams to strengthen controls and improve operational efficiency.
Payments Fraud Uncovered: Cross-Border Lessons for Corporates
Payments fraud is on the rise, targeting organizations across various industries. This session brings together executives from diverse sectors to explore how insights from retail fraud shape corporate treasury strategies. Leveraging exclusive data from the Canadian Cross-Sector Anti-Scam Alliance, cybercrime experts, and corporate perspectives from both Canada and the US, the panel examines emerging fraud tactics, cross-border vulnerabilities, and real-world success stories in fraud prevention. Attendees gain actionable insights to strengthen risk management, safeguard payment processes, and future-proof their organizations and clients against evolving threats.
Geopolitical Currents, the Economy and Markets
Geopolitics plays a crucial role in shaping economic and market dynamics, with implications spanning from military conflict to economic policy, both domestically and internationally. This session explores the distinction between "tactical" issues, which have near-term impacts, and "strategic" issues, whose outcomes unfold over time. By applying geopolitical analysis to decisions on FX, commodities, rates, and supply chains, businesses can significantly influence their performance. As geopolitics becomes an even more critical factor for CEOs, understanding its current impact is essential for navigating today's complex landscape.
Navigating Fiduciary Responsibility and Risk Management for Retirement Plan Sponsors
As a retirement plan sponsor, your fiduciary responsibilities are complex and constantly evolving. With increasing litigation in the retirement space and new avenues for plaintiffs' attorneys to target plan sponsors, managing risk has become more challenging. Ensuring compliance through a robust governance process is essential for effective plan oversight. This session highlights best practices from a corporate practitioner who has successfully implemented a streamlined process for managing a corporate 401(k) plan. Attendees gain actionable insights to navigate fiduciary duties, minimize litigation risk, and enhance plan outcomes for participants.
Enhancing Cyber Readiness and Business Continuity through Tabletop Exercises in Treasury & Finance Departments
As cyber threats and operational disruptions grow more frequent and sophisticated, Treasury and Finance teams must be prepared to respond swiftly and effectively—even before IT systems are fully restored. This session focuses on strengthening cyber readiness and business continuity by equipping practitioners with the tools and strategies needed to take immediate action during a crisis. Through interactive tabletop exercises simulating real-world cyber and business disruption scenarios, attendees can identify organizational vulnerabilities, uncover process gaps, and explore practical steps to mitigate risk. The session also highlights the importance of cross-functional coordination and pre-established response procedures among impacted departments.
Demystifying Risk Frameworks: Simplifying Complex Concepts for Success
Many organizations unintentionally overcomplicate or misinterpret the processes behind their risk frameworks—leading to confusion and, ironically, increased exposure. Focusing on core principles that are straightforward and logical, this session outlines the requirements for implementing, managing, and demonstrating the value of an effective risk framework across all levels of the organization. The discussion emphasizes the importance of fostering a risk-aware culture, where identifying and managing risk is intuitive, widely understood, and embedded into daily operations. Expect practical strategies rooted in real-world treasury experiences.
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Raising the Bar: Insights into ERP Success and Optimizing Data for a Competitive Edge in Cash Management
As treasury organizations modernize, the focus shifts to upgrading ERP systems and optimizing their data to drive critical working capital improvements. Working capital, as the lifeblood of any organization, is a key indicator of operational efficiency and short-term financial health. By leveraging ERP data, treasury teams can drive strategic outcomes – enhancing cash flow, reducing costs, and strengthening liquidity. In this session speakers explore the pros and cons of current solutions, highlighting the critical role of ERP data in optimizing working capital management, refining accounts payable and receivable processes, improving cash forecasting accuracy, and maximizing liquidity.
Converging Cash Forecasting: Bridging the Gap Between FP&A and Treasury
Is perfect cash forecasting a realistic goal or an idealistic pursuit? Many organizations struggle with fragmented forecasting processes—Treasury often bases forecasts on actual cash positions, while FP&A relies on balance sheet data and future business plans. This disconnect can result in conflicting and incomplete views of the organization’s cash position, leading to missed opportunities for cash optimization. This session provides practical strategies to unify Treasury and FP&A forecasts, leveraging advanced technologies, improving data accuracy, and managing external uncertainties.
AI for Treasury: Contest or Collaboration?
Over 80% of CFOs have made AI a priority for their finance teams, yet fewer than 50% of treasurers report successful AI implementation, and less than 10% rely on AI for critical processes like cash forecasting. Many treasury teams face uncertainty about where to start, whom to collaborate with, what to trust, and how AI might impact their careers. This session takes a practical look at implementing Agentic AI, GenAI, and machine learning in treasury, covering how to work effectively with cross-functional teams, balance competing finance priorities, and set realistic expectations for productivity and ROI.
Is The Grass Really Greener? Virtual Accounts vs. Physical Accounts
Treasurers use the latest technology to optimize balance sheet management and working capital through automation, system controls, and enhanced reporting. Virtual Accounts offer simplified structures, visibility, and effective controls, potentially transforming liquidity management. However, this may not be the ideal solution for every organization. Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of different account structures is crucial for driving transformation. In this session, Virtual Account adopters, skeptics, and critics debate use cases where Virtual Accounts proved revolutionary, as well as situations where costs and risks outweighed the benefits. Panelists share key considerations that led to these conclusions, offering valuable insights for attendees.
Establishing Strong Treasury Policies to Drive Operational Excellence
Corporate finance and treasury teams play a critical role in funding enterprise operations and enabling strategic growth. Optimizing cash and liquidity resources is essential to achieving these objectives, but success requires more than just financial oversight—it demands a strong treasury policy that fosters a cash-conscious culture across the organization. Effective treasury governance sets operational standards and enforces financial discipline, ensuring that business units align with corporate liquidity and risk management goals. By integrating treasury policy with broader business operations, organizations can drive efficiency, enhance decision-making, and create a sustainable framework for long-term financial health.
DLT & Stablecoins 101: Corporate Use Case
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is transforming how data is recorded, shared, and managed across industries. For corporate treasurers, DLT offers new opportunities to enhance transparency, security, and operational efficiency. Among the most promising applications are stablecoins—digital assets designed for price stability—which are rapidly gaining traction in corporate finance. Stablecoins can potentially function as 24/7 settlement instruments to address challenges and facilitate intercompany transactions across borders, but accounting, risk, and implementation must be considered. This discussion provides practical insights into stablecoin adoption from the perspectives of senior leaders and experts in cryptocurrency audit, digital asset management, treasury technology, and corporate finance.
To Transform or Not to Transform: A Practical Practitioner's View Into TMS Transformation
With the advent of AI-driven innovation and increased workflow automation, the transformation of a treasury workstation is a perennial problem for corporate treasurers looking to continuously refine their global treasury operations. Many corporate treasury teams are at a crossroads in determining whether to adopt, upgrade or migrate to an entirely new treasury workstation. In this session, hear from a seasoned cross-industry panel of corporate practitioners on tried-and-true lessons learned, from considerations around TMS selection to navigating a full ERP and TMS transformation.
An Unfiltered Perspective on AI Use Within Cash Forecasting & Liquidity Management
While AI is becoming a game-changer in transforming treasury operations, implementing it effectively is far from plug-and-play. In this session, treasury practitioners who have recently integrated AI into their cash forecasting and liquidity management processes provide insights into the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned. Attendees hear how AI is being used to drive accuracy, automation, and efficiency—while tackling issues like data quality, system integration, and skills gaps. With use cases differing by industry and organization, this discussion focuses on adaptable strategies treasury teams can use to unlock AI’s potential and deliver measurable value.
Where in the World are My Bank Fees?
Most treasurers have limited visibility into their bank relationships outside the U.S. making it increasingly difficult to manage and negotiate bank fees effectively. However, the availability of information supporting global transparency is now possible and accessible. In this session, discover how companies are collaborating with their banking and software partners to gain insight and visibility into their cash management banks within the US and across the globe.
Next-Gen Treasury Dashboards: Harnessing AI & ML to Analyze Data, Improve Decision-making, and Make Automation
Treasury dashboards have evolved from basic data aggregation tools to smart systems powered by AI and machine learning, offering enhanced visibility and actionable insights. In this session, practitioners share best practices for using next-gen dashboards to identify risks, opportunities, and guide decisions. The discussion covers AI and machine learning use cases for data analysis, improving treasury decision-making, and automating processes. Attendees gain insights on data sourcing, management, and governance for training AI agents that power these dashboards. Learn about the benefits of these innovations, how they’ve transformed treasury functions, and what’s next in this dynamic space.
Unlocking Treasury Operations for Global Growth: BCG's Treasury Transformation
Is your organization facing fragmented cash and liquidity management due to legacy systems, decentralized operations, or inefficient workflows? Has rapid growth or M&A worsened the challenge? In this session, learn how Boston Consulting Group transformed its global liquidity management, treasury operations, and banking structure over three years, setting a new benchmark for the industry. Discover how the company partnered with tech and banking experts, leveraging data analytics, automation, and cutting-edge technology to enhance efficiency, security, and reduce risks and costs. Participants will gain insights into these strategies and how to position treasury as a strategic asset that supports future corporate growth.
Post-M&A Treasury Integration Success with New Technologies and Established Best Practices
Treasury practitioners often face challenges in M&A integration, from managing bank accounts and payments to intercompany loans. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), APIs, and distributed ledger technology (DLT), are driving faster, frictionless transactions but may create new M&A complexities. This session explores how traditional treasury management practices, like in-house banks (IHB), are impacted by these innovations. Experts discuss how to leverage both emerging technologies and traditional methods to improve M&A treasury integration.
Incorporating AI Into Your Treasury Function
AI is transforming cash and liquidity management, making it critical for treasury teams to build a strong data strategy and align technology with core workflows. In this conversation, speakers who are actively adopting AI in their global cash operations share how they’re defining clear roadmaps for AI integration, addressing common implementation hurdles, and mitigating risks related to data quality, governance and transparency. Attendees gain practical insight into the current state of AI in cash management to prepare their organizations for change and discover what the next wave of AI-powered treasury solutions may bring.
Unlocking the Full Potential of Treasury Automation: Strategies from Industry Leaders
Treasury and finance practitioners face growing pressure to optimize cash flow, reduce risk, and improve visibility. Yet, outdated systems and manual processes create inefficiencies that hinder strategic decision-making. Treasury automation offers a transformative solution to outdated systems and manual processes that drive efficiency, stronger controls, and impactful business outcomes. In this session industry leaders share their approach to evaluating, implementing, and scaling automation tools to optimize operations. Whether you're starting your automation journey or refining your strategy, this session gives you the tools to drive success, transform operations, and elevate your role as a strategic partner.
Allocating Share of Wallet: A Strategic Approach
Share of wallet management is crucial because it gives treasurers enhanced negotiating power, simplifies cash management and creates stronger partnerships with their banks. While effective wallet management is a cornerstone of strategic financial decision-making, treasurers must navigate complex banking relationships, ensuring their company maximizes value while maintaining strong partnerships with key banking providers. This session provides practical insights on optimizing business allocation across banking partners to align with corporate objectives, strengthening negotiations by understanding bank priorities and revenue drivers, and balancing lending, payables, and receivables to improve overall financial outcomes.
What Makes the Best Marriages Between Bankers and Practitioners Work
A weak treasury-bank relationship poses the risk of reduced support from the bank when it’s most needed, while strong, long-term partnerships foster financial stability and resilience, turning corporates and banks into strategic allies. This session highlights how prioritizing these partnerships drives efficiency, transparency, and risk management throughout the cash management process, while also supporting practitioners in their digital transformation journeys.
The Bank Consolidation Journey: The Road That Should Be Traveled
As businesses expand, treasury often accumulates numerous bank accounts and relationships, which can become burdensome, especially when spread across the globe. Managing liquidity and executing forecasts through multiple banks can impede treasury efficiency. In this session, corporate practitioners discuss their experiences in consolidating banking relationships and rationalizing accounts to streamline liquidity structures. Best practices are shared on overcoming challenges in bank switching, from selecting the right partners to socializing a consolidation initiative internally and providing a clear roadmap for creating a scalable treasury infrastructure and successfully executing a bank consolidation project to unlock greater efficiency and treasury benefits.
India's GIFT City: Unlocking Global Growth Opportunities for Corporate Treasury and Finance
As multinational corporations expand into high-growth markets like India, they face challenges such as geopolitical risk, trade uncertainty, and regulatory complexity. This session highlights how Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)—India’s first smart city and international financial services center—helps address these hurdles. With world-class infrastructure, streamlined regulations, and tax incentives, GIFT City supports easier market entry and regional treasury operations. Corporate speakers share their evaluation process, and a representative from the International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA) offers insights into how GIFT City enables scalable, cross-border growth for multinationals looking to strengthen their presence in emerging markets.