Treasury 360° Helsinki

Nina Alaharju, Director, PwC

The Covid-19 crisis proved the value of having your corporate treasury processes and financial setup robustly in place. So let’s take a look at the trends that have been reinforced – and our managerial priorities as we move forward from here.

Jan Dirk van Beusekom, Head of Strategic Marketing, BNP Paribas Cash Management & Trade Solutions

Different corporations – different treasurer realities. Meet fellow colleagues who share their insights from their everyday activities. 

Moderator: Nina Alaharju, Director, PwC

Panellists:

Christine Rovelli, Senior Vice President, Finance & Fleet Management, Finnair

Abraham Geldenhuys​, Vice President Group Treasury, Kongsberg Automotive

If you want to succeed in Today’s business environment you will need to satisfy not only your shareholders but rather the multitude of internal as external business stakeholders. The global economy is highly dynamic and whilst some businesses have experienced tough times throughout the pandemic others have thrived.

In this session we will discuss:

• The impact of the pandemic on the treasury function and the ESG agenda – new trends and best practices
• How do companies secure key financial business KPIs with increasing inflation and supply chain shortages?
• What measures can be taken in securing business sustainability, supply chain resilience and ultimately reaching the overarching ESG goals i.e. Climate Action (SDG13-Scope3)?
• How does ‘corporate culture’ facilitate these goals and how does this affect the role of the treasurer?

Esge Räder, Managing Director, Nordics & Northern Germany, C2FO

Consumer payments fintech, and open banking, are opening new opportunitites with radical consequences in many sectors. this start-up is one of the many Finnish actors active in the field. Let this session offer a sense of the new world that the payments innovation could bring.

Monika Liikamaa, Co-founder, Group CEO, Enfuce

Janne Salminen, CEO, Helsinki Fintech Farm

In the footsteps of the massive breakthrough for green financing in the last years, social bonds are now rapidly establishing themselves too. Finland’s public financing issuer MuniFin launched the Nordics’ first social bond, worth €500 million, in September 2020. Learn how it was done, what benefits it brings – and now what is next.

Antti Kontio, CFA, Head of Funding and Sustainability, MuniFin

Finnish forest industry frontrunner UPM established its Green Finance Framework and issued its first green bond in November 2020 following a second green bond in March 2021 and the first Green Bond report in April 2021. Hear about UPM`s experiences and lessons learned during the processes.

Marjut Artimo, Director, Funding, UPM

Bjørn Stendorph Crepaz, Head of Issuance Products & Data Analytics, VP Securities, a EURONEXT company

Lauri Miettinen, Trader, FX & Liquidity, KONE

Anna-Lisa Natchev, Chief Growth Officer, Nomentia

This session will first give a general overview of FX Market trends over the past 18 months with a focus on Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia and Kenya and then move to an interactive discussion focussing on challenges faced and solutions from a currency/ payments perspective.

David Willacy, FX Trader, StoneX

Know-your-customer processes, KYC, has now challenged corporations for long enough to have become everyday practice. Even so, it is still a headache. So what are the best practices, and the trends in implementations – and what is technology offering to help?

This is an interactive session where a combination of Key-note speeches and interaction with the participants, will give us a better understanding of why KYC is so important, and not least how KYC looks at its worst, and what we would need to improve the current situation.

Anders Meinert Jørgensen, CEO & Co-founder, Avallone

The Global Treasury Salary Survey, by The Treasury Recruitment Company, is a unique effort of its kind. From treasury analysts all the way up to group treasurers, it benchmarks salary data of treasury professionals globally. Join the Helsinki session – chosen by the company as the right occasion to announce this years results!

Mike Richards, CEO & Founder, The Treasury Recruitment Company

Nina Alaharju, Director, PwC