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Over the past 50 years, Treasury technology has evolved based on global trends, industry initiatives, changing business requirements which has shaped the customer experience. The discussion will look back historically and make some predictions for the future. Join this session to hear ideas about innovation and integration across Treasury including key industry milestones (such as SWIFT, TCH Real Time Payments, FedNow, Open Banking/APIs), and how it ties to customer experience and pop culture. It will be a lively session that you won’t want to miss.
Speaker Bios:
Matteo Monaco, Head of Wire Products | Santander Bank
Matteo Monaco leads wire payment product management to support the needs of Santander’s client base. Areas of focus include solution development, risk management and market management for domestic and cross border payments. He is part of the payments transformation team at Santander, he brings subject matter expertise in FinTech, Standards and Partnerships across cash management.
Matteo joined Santander in 2019, he has more than 25 years of senior leadership experience within banking and technology organizations. Throughout his career, he has lead product management, strategy, and business development teams at SWIFT, CGI, FIS and J.P.Morgan.
Matteo holds an MBA in Finance from LIU, and a Bachelors in engineering from NYIT.
Stacy Rosenthal, Head of Payments Product Management, Transaction Banking | Santander Bank
Stacy Rosenthal is the Head of Payments Product Management, Transaction Banking, for Santander Bank. Stacy brings over 20 years of experience in banking and technology shaping market initiatives, launching new solutions, managing risk and product management. She is responsible for core payments products and serves as the business lead for the Payments Hub transformation initiative. She joined Santander in September 2018. Prior to Santander, Stacy held leadership roles in payments strategy, product development, industry engagement and innovation at Accenture and SWIFT. She began her banking career at Bank of America as a Treasury Solutions Technology and Product Consultant.
Stacy is an industry expert and speaker on Payments, Standards and FinTech. In 2016, Stacy was honored with Global Finance’s Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management.
Stacy holds a BA from SUNY Albany and a MBA from Long Island University at CW Post. She is based in New York City.
Data analytics should be at the forefront of Treasurers’ and Cash Managers’ organizational wish list. Fraud detection and monitoring, real-time payment settlement tracking, advanced liquidity management dashboards, exception alerts, and global access to instantaneous cash balances are crucial areas in which to leverage data. This session details the important role analytics play in Treasury’s informationally driven age, and how to find what strategy is best for you. This session will cover:
- Detail analytical strategies that are pushing the frontiers of treasury’s capabilities and access to information
- Strategies that show how tackling small changes in analytical processes can lead to huge results
- How to find a data management and analytics strategy that’s right for you
Attendees can expect to learn when and where to use data analytics to compliment treasury operations, discover what cutting-edge capabilities are available to Treasurers and Cash Managers in the realm of data analytics, and see the most impacted business processes in today’s informational age.
Dayton Paul is a Senior Consultant in the PeopleSoft Treasury practice. Focusing on implementing multiple product suites, he’s a seasoned consultant specializing in treasury business processes and client implementations. Outside of his extensive experience in Treasury, he’s implemented data analytics products for clients of various sizes, including leading hospital systems in the US.
Join payments experts from Elire and Kyriba to see how a payments hub increases automation, mitigates fraud, and cut costs, by:
- Standardizing/strengthening payments workflows and controls
- Streamlining bank connectivity, cutting IT cost to support by 90%+
- Unveiling complete payments visibility for timing, transactions, and status
- Giving remote teams security to work safely
Speaker Bios:
Alex Jackson, Senior Consultant | Elire Inc.
As a Kyriba platinum-certified consultant and Elire Senior Consultant, Alex has had success working with Kyriba through Kyriba Partner alliances. With five years of implementation experience, Alex had completed a variety of different implementations.
Steven Otwell, Director of Payments | Americas, Kyriba
Steven has over 15 years of experience in the enterprise payment software and connectivity space. He has been with Kyriba since 2016 and now serves as Director of Payments working with clients and prospects to model bank connectivity and payment strategies. Prior to joining Kyriba, he spent nine years at Bottomline Technologies working with clients on both payments and SWIFT initiatives. Steven holds a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina.
Creating an environment where ongoing change is expected and minimally disruptive requires a proven organizational change management strategy. In this session, viewers will learn how to apply change management fundamentals to improve the success rate of internal initiatives, reduce risk, and accelerate time to value. This session also demonstrate the value of including change management as an integrated part of large projects or internal initiatives and also how to use fundamental change management tools to identify and measure change.
**This session also offers a complimentary Change Management Toolkit with templates built by Elire Experts! Reach out to [email protected] for more information.
Stephen Kwiatkowski is a Strategic Process Consultant with a breadth of experience in organizational change management, process automation, testing, project management, and strategic decision making. He has developed the tools and methodology used in Elire’s Change Management approach, created bots across multiple RPA applications (UiPath, Automation Anywhere), and led client implementations of OCR automation tools.
The financial industry has planned to phase out LIBOR reference rate starting January 1, 2022. In the US, the Secured Overnight Funding Rate (SOFR) has been determined to replace LIBOR. Since LIBOR has been used significantly as a reference rate for corporate loans, derivatives, and for processes like measuring risk, valuations and accounting, Corporate Treasurers are compelled at the moment to allocate resources and budget to undertake initiatives to implement required changes to their Treasury processes and system landscape. In this session, attendees will gain an understanding of LIBOR phase-out timeline and its replacement with SOFR, LIBOR’s uses by Treasury, specific instruments, and areas potentially exposed to risk.
Sudeep Sharma is an experienced Treasury professional with a certification (CTP) in Treasury. He brings strong project management, technical, and consulting skills with solid experience in process improvements, optimization advisory, and in successfully handling projects from planning through to close out phases and post go-live business support.
New payment technologies are appearing on the horizon almost daily. With so many options available, which options are truly valuable to the Corporate Treasurer in building a digital treasury? Discover the latest payment technologies available to your Treasury Organization and learn which payment technologies have a true ROI and low cost of ownership. In this session, attendees will be able to prioritize what is truly beneficial in the current payment technology landscape and recognize what is merely just hype, discover what technology are they may be missing for payments that puts them at a disadvantage vs. competitors, and understand the typical implementation project timeline, costs, and ROI that comes with promoting changes within your organization.
Speaker Bios:
Karen Willis, Treasury COE Lead | Elire Inc.
Karen Willis has 25 years of experience in Finance and Banking. With 20 years spent on successful TMS and payments implementation projects, she is also a Trusted Advisor to many clients for their Strategic Technology Roadmap for Treasury.
Phil Mattes, Senior Consultant | Elire Inc.
Phil has worked for over 20 years in Treasury and has held roles in corporate treasury departments, treasury consulting firms and treasury management software vendors. Currently, Phil focuses on leading cloud treasury systems implementation projects.
The centralization of payments processing has long been a costly, complex and resource-intensive effort. Additionally, treasurers with many international banking partners struggle to establish standardized, simple, and secure connectivity channels. The good news is that treasury solutions provided by fintech providers have expanded and can help treasurers centralize their payments helping them reduce costs, reduce fraud risk, and increase cash visibility.
Attend this session to see a live demonstration of the newly released FIS Global Payment Hub and to learn how treasurers can simplify and strengthen their global payments processes.
Speaker Bios:
Sudeep Sharma, Treasury Advisory Services Lead | Elire Inc.
Sudeep Sharma is an experienced Treasury professional with a certification (CTP) in Treasury. He brings strong project management, technical, and consulting skills with solid experience in process improvements, optimization advisory, and in successfully handling projects from planning through to close out phases and post go-live business support.
Anindya Chakraborty, Practice Manager, Payments | FIS Global
Anindya is an experienced presales consultant and payment strategist. With a background in professional services , his career expands over several payment initiatives like SEPA, ISO 20022. Anindya worked his way up from entry level position to practice management and sales. He is passionate about helping his clients learn the payment projects and execution strategies they need to succeed.
Cloud-based Treasury Management Systems are leading the charge in standardizing and modernizing treasury organizations, while also enhancing day-to-day operations. In this session, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the benefits a Cloud-Based TMS solution has over On-Prem, understand how a Cloud TMS Application Roadmap can assist your organization to strategically prepare for the shift into a cloud-based solution, and receive tangible tips and direction as to what next steps your organization needs to take to begin the move to cloud.
Edmund Glasenapp serves as Practice Lead with over 9 years of experience in project management, treasury management systems, business process design, data analysis, and system configuration. He has helped standardize and enhance clients’ treasury management by upgrading their treasury operations into cloud-based TMS solutions.
Reverse factoring is common in 65% of corporations, according to a Strategic Treasurer survey conducted in 2019 - prior to the pandemic disruption. Of those, 68% of the SCF programs were 3rd party funded and 39% were self-funded, citing their working capital position as the primary driver. Regardless of the funding route you choose, supply chain finance is a win-win for corporates needing financial flexibility, improved liquidity, and stronger buyer-supplier relationships throughout the chain.In this session we share experiences and success stories around:
- Choosing the right early payment program option for your company
- Dynamic Discounting for companies with excess liquidity
- Supply Chain Finance and funding considerations
- Pointers for Pre-launch and Planning
- Ensure a win-win proposition for suppliers
Speaker Bios:
Alex Jackson, Senior Consultant | Elire Inc.
As a Kyriba platinum-certified consultant and Elire Senior Consultant, Alex has had success working with Kyriba through Kyriba Partner alliances. With five years of implementation experience, Alex had completed a variety of different implementations.
Michael Lomax, Director, Working Capital Solution Structuring | Americas, Kyriba
Mike leads the working capital practice as subject matter expert for Kyriba’s North America Region. His role is to assist clients with meeting their goals using the technology, funding, pricing and onboarding strategies he has learned over his many years in the industry. With experience on both the physical and financial sides of the supply chain, Mike brings a broad perspective to structuring solutions for clients and their suppliers and recognizes the need to impact both sides of the transaction equally. Before joining the Kyriba team, he spent over 13 years combined in Trade & Supply Chain finance roles with JPMC, BAML and HSBC. Most recently, he worked in Procure to Pay/Fintech doing SaaS platform enabled early payment programs for suppliers. He resides in the Park City, UT area and enjoys the outdoors.
As organizations grow in both size and complexity, so do their structures and banking needs. One of the best ways that organizations can benefit from their scale and return greater marginal productivity while diminishing the cost associated with financial intermediaries is to develop an in-house banking structure. This presentation will showcase the steps necessary to reap the long list of benefits. In this session, we’ll dive into the capabilities of leveraging in-house banking as a dynamic tool that organizations can use to reduce cost, improve efficiencies, and cover the details of In-house Banking and related process efficiencies to show why it’s something to be considered for those looking for greater information access.
Dayton Paul is a Senior Consultant in the PeopleSoft Treasury practice. Focusing on implementing multiple product suites, he’s a seasoned consultant specializing in treasury business processes and client implementations. Outside of his extensive experience in Treasury, he’s implemented data analytics products for clients of various sizes, including leading hospital systems in the US.