TreasuryCast

With AI dominating much of the treasury conversation, Evaldas Balkys took a different approach when designing the agenda for the Baltic Treasury Conference, choosing not to feature it as a standalone topic. Speaking live from the event floor at Treasury 360° Europe in Luxembourg, Eleanor Hill (TMI) explores his perspective on how treasurers should be approaching the technology. Discussing both the opportunities and challenges AI presents, Balkys explains where human judgement and business context remain essential, why responsibility for treasury policy should remain with those who understand the organisation best, and how treasurers can begin experimenting with AI through practical analytical use cases. He also examines the risks associated with AI agents, security concerns and increasingly sophisticated AI-driven workflows, highlighting why understanding the technology is becoming just as important as using it.

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.