Geoff Brady, head of global trade and supply chain at Bank of America, described the recent launch of its CashPro Supply Chain Solutions as the initial steps of the bank's trade and supplychain transformation journey.

Rachel Whelan, APAC Head of Corporate Cash Management & Global Head of Payments & Transactional FX Product Management, at Deutsche Bank discussed the impact of tightening cash cycles on corporate cash and liquiditymanagement, as well as the evolution of the bank's solutions to meet customers' dynamic needs.

Kanika Hope, chief strategy officer at Temenos discussed key findings from a commissioned survey of 300 senior bankers across different business lines in the industry.

Philip Panaino, Global Head of Cash Management, and David Rego, Global Head of Payments at Standard Chartered Bank spoke of interesting times for the transformation of payments. Panaino characterised this fundamental shift as a game-changer with the potential to deliver greater value to the industry.

Samuel Mathew, group head of flow and financial institution trade at Standard Chartered Bank discussed the bank's trade and supplychain digitalisation initiatives.

Eli Shoshani, head of financial messaging for Asia Pacific at Bottomline Technologies, shared insights from its commissioned global competitive payments and banking survey. He highlighted issues that banks, especially in Asia Pacific, grapple with in their day-to-day operations and how these factors impact their ability to stay competitive.

Shekhar Bhandari , president of global transaction banking at Kotak Mahindra Bank highlighted three major themes from Sibos 2023. Firstly, he emphasised the importance of security and risk management, and the integration of advanced technologies like AI artificial intelligence, ML machine learning, and generative AI to enhance risk management and data security.

Martin McCann, founder of Trade Ledger™ a lending technology company established in 2016 that supports the digitisation of lending products for businesses, discusses the potential of OpenAI's large language model to address the insights SMEs can gain from their data. These firms often lack the resources or in-house expertise to access and comprehend information needed to optimise the cash-to-cash cycle.

Richard Harmon, global head of financial services, and Arvind Swami, director for financial institutions for Asia Pacific at Red Hat, discussed the -digital transformation of transaction and corporate banking.

John Kirkpatrick, head of custody product at Broadridge discussed the operational console designed to enhance custody services through data exchange.

Matthew Van Niekerk, CEO and co-founder of SettleMint discussed how blockchain technology is reshaping the finance sector. He outlined three fundamental pillars that guide this transformation.

Horacio Barakat, head of digital innovation for capitalmarkets at Broadridge discussed the transformative potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the repo market, which is primarily an OTC market where transactions occur directly between parties without a centralised counterparty such as an exchange.

Vinay Mendonca, chief growth officer for global trade and receivables financing at HSBC discussed key themes in global trade and supplychains.

Hari Janakiraman, head of industry and innovation at ANZ Group, covered a spectrum of topics, from shifts in focus in transaction banking and corporate finance, next-generation payment infrastructure, advancements in the digitalisation of tradefinance, emerging commercial applications for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in Australia, to the future role of stablecoins in the payment landscape.

Steve Naudé, managing director for Wise Platform, and Stephen Grainger, chief executive for Americas and United Kingdom at Swift discussed the partnership between the two organisations to expand crossborder #payment options globally.