Redefining Treasury: The New Rails for Real-Time Treasury

With AI rapidly changing the way treasury works, finding the right talent is becoming increasingly difficult, and the next generation is having to learn the profession in a fundamentally different way. Recorded live from the floor of the recent Treasury 360° Conference in Luxembourg, Eleanor Hill (TMI) asks Marianna Polykrati, Group Treasurer at Cooke Hellas whether the traditional treasury career ladder still works in 2026, and questions how senior leaders can prepare the next generation of treasurers for what comes next.

Barış Gökalp, Treasury Director, Şişecam, tells TMI how, throughout his career, he has recognised the need to continue evolving to deliver the best results.

TMI's Eleanor Hill welcomes Kelvin Li (Ant International), alongside HSBC's Selene Chong and Lewis Sun, to look beyond the theory of tokenised deposits, exploring practical applications to solve real corporate treasury challenges. Our guests uncover how Ant International is putting tokenised deposits into practice, becoming the first HSBC corporate client to adopt their Tokenised Deposit Service to move funds instantly between group entities. This case study reveals what Ant has learned from bringing tokenised commercial-bank deposits into its day-to-day liquidity management, offering a glimpse of what real-time liquidity can look like.

Recorded live from the conference floor at Treasury 360° Europe in Luxembourg, Eleanor Hill invites Tariq Kazi, Group Treasurer at Peabody, current ACT President and trustee of the New Economics Foundation, to reflect on his career across banking, treasury, social housing and the not-for-profit sector. Exploring how treasury can become a more strategic commercial partner to the CFO and CEO, Kazi candidly identifies why soft skills and human insights will remain critical in an increasingly automated profession, and reveals how the next generation of treasurers can prepare themselves for the changing demands of the industry.

In this special edition of TreasuryCast, recorded live from the conference floor at Treasury 360° Europe in Luxembourg, Eleanor Hill (TMI) asks Ralf Kesten (cflox) where, with year end approaching, treasury can release cash from the business. Our guest examines how treasury can look beyond traditional funding options to unlock trapped capital, covering receivables and supplier payment terms to treasury-led solutions. Kesten also considers the importance of collaboration with procurement and wider finance, and shares practical examples of how companies can make meaningful improvements before year end, without simply whilst and retaining momentum going into the new year.

What does a truly connected treasury look like, and how can organisations build one? In this episode of Redefining Treasury, HSBC's Amber Henderson-Smart and Peter Crawley explore how evolving client expectations are reshaping connectivity, from choosing the right banking channels to embedding services directly into ERP and TMS workflows.  Drawing on practical examples, they examine how real-time information can improve receivables, free up customer credit and support sales, and why robust connectivity is essential for AI-enabled treasury. The conversation also considers the controls needed as agent-to-agent interaction develops, alongside practical first steps for treasurers seeking better integration without a costly, wholesale transformation. Listen now to hear how connected treasury can support better decisions.

What does it take for treasury to shape business strategy when uncertainty is a constant? In the opening episode of HSBC's Redefining Treasury podcast series, Manish Kohli, Head of Global Payments Solutions, HSBC and Vivek Ramachandran, Head of Global Trade Solutions, HSBC explore how geopolitical change, shifting trade corridors and technological advances are reshaping treasury's mandate. Tune in to discover what it takes to lead treasury into its next era.

CoreX reveals how, together with ING, it treated the creation of a new, future-ready treasury as an opportunity to design an operating model around the evolving needs of its global business.

Societe Generale explains how an in-house bank/payment factory structure can reduce costs by making optimum use of available liquidity. Better control leads to better decisions - and increased efficiency.

Faced with the complex task of setting up a treasury from scratch, its architect decided the key to success was simplicity. She focused first on notional cash pooling and then on deploying a TMS.