Agenda Day 2
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast & Networking
8:35 am - 8:40 am
Chair’s Opening Remarks
8:40 am - 9:10 am
Keynote Presentation: Cash Under Pressure: How Group Treasurers Are Rebuilding Control in Uncertain Conditions
Dimitris skordilis -
Head of Group Treasury,
HELLENIQ
9:10 am - 9:40 am
In High-Risk Environments, Funding Delays Are Often Caused Not by A Lack of Liquidity, But by Compliance Friction
Saira Maniar -
Senior Treasury Manager Compliance and Crisis Funding,
Save The Children International
When funding matters most, delays often stem from fragmented KYC processes rather than liquidity shortages. Manual compliance work, dispersed data, and repeated bank requests can undermine speed and certainty in treasury operations. In this session, Save the Children explains how their Treasury team transformed KYC from a reactive burden into a structured, scalable compliance framework that improved funding continuity and strengthened bank trust, as well as reducing manual workloads.
• Stronger control over funding execution in high-risk environments
• Improved transparency and confidence with banking partners
• Faster, more consistent responses to bank KYC reques
Sponsored by: Avallone
Saira Maniar
Senior Treasury Manager Compliance and Crisis FundingSave The Children International
10:20 am - 10:50 am
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
Periods of volatility have shown that traditional liquidity metrics often provide false comfort until pressure hits. This think tank focuses on how Group Treasurers are rethinking liquidity stress testing to expose vulnerabilities earlier and improve confidence in funding decisions.
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Finding the Right Level of Cash Visibility to Support Better Treasury Decisions
James Despain -
Group Treasurer,
Dole Food Company Inc
Julia Donegan - Global Treasury Director, Newell Brands.
Alex Chalmers - Group Treasurer, Inchcape
As systems deliver faster and more detailed visibility, treasurers must decide what level of information genuinely improves decision making. This panel brings together differing views on where visibility adds value and where it becomes noise.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Sponsor Presentation: Understanding the Quality of Liquidity, Not Just the Size of It
Many organisations report strong liquidity positions yet discover under pressure that significant portions of cash are restricted, trapped, or operationally unavailable. This session focuses on how treasurers are improving understanding of liquidity quality to support more confident funding and risk decisions.
• Gain clearer distinction between usable, restricted, and conditional liquidity
• Earlier identification of cash that cannot be mobilised under stress
• How to deliver stronger confidence in liquidity buffers presented to boards and lenders
12:40 pm - 1:10 pm
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
Networking Lunch
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Keynote Presentation: Capital Is No Longer Cheap: How Group Treasurers Are Rethinking Funding and Allocation
Higher interest rates and tighter capital markets have changed the cost of every decision treasury supports. This keynote explores how Group Treasurers are reassessing funding strategies, capital allocation priorities, and risk appetite as the consequences of getting it wrong become more material.
• Gain insight into how treasurers are balancing debt reduction, investment and shareholder expectations
• Learn where capital allocation decisions are becoming more conservative and where they are not
• How treasury is influencing capital discussions without owning the final decision
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Panel Discussion: How Much Risk Is Treasury Willing to Carry in Capital Decisions
Emer Murnane -
Group Treasurer,
Smurfit Westrock
Gerard Tyler - Group Treasurer, URENCO Group
David Kennedy - Group Treasurer, Ornua
As capital becomes more expensive, the margin for error narrows. This panel brings together different perspectives on risk appetite, conservatism, and how far treasury should go in protecting the balance sheet versus enabling growth.
• What are the best strategies in reassessing risk tolerance in funding and capital decisions?
• Do conservative approaches pay off or do they have limited opportunity?
• How do treasurers manage tension between caution and commercial ambition?
