Digital Treasury: Efficiency Through Automation
It has the power to reshape management, and to redefine the role of treasury managers by providing them with more efficient, scalable means of accomplishing traditional, time-consuming treasury tasks. It also allows information to be received in a way that minimizes manual manipulation, as well as automating decision-making.
Join us as we hear from corporate treasury leaders on their optimization challenges, along with the many benefits of automation and their firms' journeys to achieving greater operational efficiency.
Discussion topics
- Challenges faced by central treasury: audit ability, treasury spreads, regulatory changes
- Tools for automation Managing settlement entities/regional centers
- Benefits and journey to achieving operational efficiency through automation Integration of processes
Speakers
Dimitrios Gazis
Head of Treasury and FX
Thunes
Dimitrios Gazis is Head of Treasury and FX at Thunes, a Singapore-based global payment network enabling the seamless movement of funds across borders.
Gazis has deep knowledge of the global banking and finance ecosystem gained over a 30-year career, with experience in trading, risk management, IT and project management.
Before joining Thunes in December 2018, Gazis was Head of Trading and Treasury at international money transfer and cross-border payments company Trans-Fast, based In New York, where he was responsible for a portfolio of over 25 currencies and global cash management across 60 countries. Prior to that, he worked at several global companies including Ernst & Young, Atlas Capital Management, and Mizuho Corporate Bank where he was Vice President of Risk Management for seven years.
Gazis was awarded a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
Ross Mackay
Group Head of Global Shared Services and Finance Transformation
International SOS
Ross Mackay is currently the Group Head of Global Shared Services and Finance Transformation at International SOS where he is managing both the Internal Shared Services functions and a multi-year Finance Transformation program.
Ross is currently rolling out a Payment Factory model globally at International SOS.
Ross joined International SOS three years ago and prior to that worked for DHL for over a decade in Finance Systems and Shared Services.
Pulat Yunusmetov
Regional Treasury Manager, ASPAME & GC
Danone
Pulat is part of the Regional Treasury team in Danone supporting the ASPAME & GC region with responsibilities around cash management, FX, bank relationships and corporate finance topics across the region. He has rolled out several regional projects such as an implementation of the Treasury Management System, Centralization of FX Management, Bank Relationship and others in the recent years which landed him a Rising Star award (Treasury Today 2020) and a few other awards for Danone’s Treasury team in 2020. He is an Automation and Digitization guru in his team.
Pulat has previously held regional positions in treasury with the scope of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Delima Riach
ASEAN Electronic Trading Solutions Specialist
Bloomberg L.P.
Delima Riach is a Fixed Income & FX Trading workflow specialist at Bloomberg covering buy-side OTC market. In her role, she works alongside Financial Institutions across both Buyside & Sellside to utilise Bloomberg technology to achieve their trading workflow goals. Prior to Bloomberg, Delima was with Thomson Reuters, servicing APAC institutional and corporate clients in FX, after a number of years working in eTrading solutions at interdealer broker firms.