Course Overview
Treasury is at a turning point. With the rise of AI-assisted forecasting, digital assets, real-time payments, and cyber risks, corporate treasury teams face both unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
This three-day program equips participants with the knowledge and tools to transform their treasury into a digital-age enabler of resilience and value creation. Through case studies, interactive workshops, and Excel-based illustrations, participants will learn how to apply AI for forecasting, assess the potential of tokenized money and CBDCs, and build cyber-resilient real-time treasury operations.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
By the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Apply AI-assisted forecasting to improve accuracy of cash and liquidity planning.
- Understand the role of tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and CBDCs in corporate funding and settlement.
- Evaluate the operational and risk implications of real-time treasury and instant payments.
- Identify cyber risks in payment and liquidity operations and design resilience strategies.
- Use scenario analysis to test treasury responses to shocks in rates, FX, or payment failures.
- Develop a Treasury Innovation Roadmap aligned with their organization’s future.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Treasurers, CFOs, and Finance Directors seeking to modernize treasury.
- Treasury managers, analysts, and cash managers.
- Corporate nance and risk professionals.
- Consultants and advisors focusing on treasury transformation.
- Professionals preparing for the impact of AI, digital assets, and real-time payments on their business.
PROGRAM AGENDA
DAY 1 – AI & TREASURY TRANSFORMATION
- The evolution of corporate treasury in the digital era.
- AI forecasting for cash, liquidity, and funding.
- Variance analysis: identifying forecasting gaps with AI support.
- Anomaly detection: spotting irregular payment or collection patterns.
- Applied exercise: build a rolling cash forecast in Excel with AI-assisted adjustments.
- Assignment: variance analysis case study.
DAY 2 – DIGITAL ASSETS & CBDCS IN TREASURY
- Overview: tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and CBDCs – what treasurers need to know.
- Case studies: corporate pilots with digital currencies.
- Settlement bene ts vs liquidity fragmentation risks.
- Accounting, audit trail, and regulatory challenges.
- Applied exercise: simulate moving 10% of liquidity into a tokenized account and assess liquidity ratios.
- Workshop: debate – “CBDCs in Treasury: Opportunity or Risk?”
- Quiz: key digital nance concepts.
DAY 3 – REAL-TIME TREASURY & CYBER RESILIENCE
- Real-time treasury: APIs, instant payments, and 24/7 liquidity.
- Implications for cash visibility and liquidity bu ers.
- Cyber threats in digital treasury: payment fraud, API vulnerabilities, ransomware.
- Case examples: real-time payment fraud and SWIFT hacks.
- Applied exercise: simulate T+2 vs real-time settlement with a cyber-fraud scenario.
- Workshop: draft a Treasury Innovation Roadmap (AI + Digital + Cyber).
- Closing session: positioning treasury as a digital-age enabler of value.
TRAINER’S PROFILE
With over 45 years of experience at the intersection of international Treasury and Investment Banking Consulting, Peter has developed a comprehensive and nuanced expertise across both conventional and Islamic treasury environ ments. His career has been marked by the development of advanced trading models that have become foundational to innovative trading strategies. Through detailed portfolio analysis, he has enhanced asset performance and brought precision to asset allocations.