Sibos webinar to examine AI and real-time cross-border treasury

Finextra will host a webinar in the run-up to Sibos to examine how artificial intelligence and real-time cross-border payments are changing corporate treasury and which organisations could capture the economic value created by those shifts.

Speakers include Deepa Sinha, SVP and Head of Payments and Financial Crimes at BAFT; Ed Barrie, co‑founder and chief product officer of Treasury 4, Inc.; Suzhen Zheng, senior product manager for global payments solutions at HSBC; with Scott Hamilton, global payments and liquidity expert, as moderator. The session will cover tokenisation, programmable money, APIs, interoperability and governance.

Panelists will discuss how real-time domestic and cross-border payment rails affect treasury assumptions about transaction speed, choice and liquidity. Many US treasury teams still treat instant payments as an occasional channel that introduces cash-control risks. In the UK and Europe, instant payments have wider use. Treasury functions need updated visibility, reconciliation and control frameworks to handle payments and richer remittance information that arrive immediately.

Technology topics will include expanded API connectivity that provides faster access to account and transaction data, and artificial intelligence applications for forecasting, liquidity planning and fraud detection. Panelists will present examples of intelligent automation and predictive analytics used to reduce the time between data and action in treasury operations.

The discussion will also address cross-border developments aimed at improving interoperability between banks, corporates and fintechs across different networks and jurisdictions. New infrastructures such as tokenisation and programmable money could lower frictions when moving value internationally and enable different payment patterns for corporates operating across multiple currencies and time zones.

Operational resilience, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, third-party dependencies and supply-chain disruption are part of the control issues on the agenda. With AI tools integrated into processes, model governance, accountability and resilience are included in the governance discussion and in plans for maintaining cash control in a 24/7 payments environment.

Panelists will identify practical considerations for treasury teams, including extending responsibilities beyond traditional cash management to strategic liquidity decisions, choosing which payment rails to prioritise, and setting policies for AI use and third-party outsourcing. The webinar will assess which types of organisations-banks, fintechs, corporates or consortiums-capture value in an AI-driven payments landscape and what operational and governance steps they will need to take.