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About this event
Corporate payments are at the centre of treasury operations, and the pressure on them has never been greater. Payment volumes are rising, payment types are multiplying, and expectations around speed, control, and visibility continue to increase. At the same time, treasury is expected to reduce cost, minimise risk, and support the business without friction. When payment processes are slow, manual, or fragmented, the impact is felt across the organisation.
Many treasury teams are still managing payments across multiple bank portals, formats, and approval tools. This creates operational inefficiency, limits visibility, and increases the risk of error and fraud. Meanwhile, new payment platforms promise centralisation, automation, stronger controls, and better insight, but with very different models and capabilities.
This Treasury Dragons session puts corporate payments solutions head-to-head. Four platforms. Seven minutes each. One treasury audience. No long demos, no sales decks, just sharp, focused pitches explaining how they simplify payments, strengthen control, and scale globally.
For attendees, this is a quick, practical way to compare payment approaches side by side, from payment hubs and TMS-led models to bank-agnostic and API-driven platforms, and understand where each delivers value.
In under an hour, you’ll gain a clearer view of the corporate payments landscape and which solutions are worth exploring further.
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Matthias Varenkamp has been an Account Executive at Cobase for over 5 years, supporting Treasurers, CFOs, and broader finance functions at fast-growing, PE-backed, and established companies. He focuses on fast, scalable rollouts that centralize payments, improve cash visibility, and enable a modular approach to treasury with easy-to-use Treasury modules. He works with organizations facing complex banking landscapes, multi-entity structures, and international expansion—delivering practical solutions that reduce friction and increase control.
Royston Da Costa is an Independent Treasury Advisor. He focusses on organisations that want to enhance, streamline, or modernise their Treasury operations. He brings more than two decades of hands-on treasury experience, with a strong focus on digital transformation, treasury technology, and building efficient, future-ready processes to solve critical issues and pain points for Treasurers. Having led multiple global implementations and optimisation projects that have won best in class while at Ferguson, he offers practical, real-world insight that helps Treasury teams get more value from their TMS. He has worked previously with SKY, Gillette, PolyGram, Seagram, Vivendi Universal, and Ferguson.
Kate is a strategic planner, builder as well as a tactical manager. She is passionate about supporting transformation, creating bridges between “old” and “new” technologies through innovation, digitalization and coaching to leverage opportunities. Kate has 30+ years of experience in commercial banking including transaction services as well as relationship management and risk. She has held senior positions with local, regional, and global responsibilities with BNY, JPMorgan, ABN Amro, Citi and ING. Today, Kate is Head of Business Development, Germany at Projective Group as well supporting the Euro Banking Association as a facilitator and the Core Leadership Institute as a Senior Advisor
Andy runs Falcor Business Consulting working in the SME sector, assisting start-ups & providing management advice. Previously, he was Vice President at Level 3, having treasury operations as his primary mandate, with additional responsibility for special projects, including procurement, shared services & real estate.
How do you decide what’s the best treasury technology solution for you? To answer that question, we’ve assembled a panel of experienced corporate treasurers and technology experts – the Treasury Dragons – to ask the right questions on your behalf.
Leo Gil leads the Cash Management and Payments product at Bottomline, working closely with corporate clients around the globe to develop innovations that help them achieve greater control and visibility over their cash and become more efficient. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, leading product and development teams primarily focused on financial technology services.
Joining the Zanders team in January 2021, Mark is recognised as an SME in the shared payments, service centre, emerging technologies, and banking integration space. He gained his deep understanding of cash management through his 34 years’ experience with Citibank and HSBC enjoying global roles in both Europe and Asia. Working within a sales, product, project, and consultancy environment provided invaluable insights into the corporate environment and market trends. At a payments industry level, Mark is also a founding member of the original CSTP Bank Group and its evolution into the CGI-MP industry group, remaining a proactive participant in the payments working group. He was also part of the team that designed the XML V03 payment messages that were launched in 2009. Finally, Mark is also a UK elected representative of the ISO TC68 Payment SEG (Expert Group) and was previously Chair of the ISO TC68 SC2 sub-group (2010-2014) covering security.
Timothy Rose is the Head of Sales UK at cflox GmbH, a payment institute that combines payments, financing, and working capital to deliver innovative client solutions. A seasoned specialist in Trade Finance and Working Capital, he brings over 18 years of experience across international banks and the fintech sector, including leadership roles at Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank. He has structured and led complex, multi-million-dollar transactions across EMEA, with global coordination across Asia and the US, developed pioneering cloud service financing models, and overseen $500M+ global supply chain finance programmes. Timothy holds a Master’s in Chinese and Business from the University of Leeds, speaks English, German, and Mandarin, and is passionate about travel, food, and Muay Thai.
James Camilleri is a business leader with over a decade of experience in scaling technology companies. As the CEO of Fyorin, James has been pivotal in driving the company's growth and establishing its position as an innovative player in the fintech space.
We’ve assembled a panel of experienced corporate treasurers and technology experts – the Treasury Dragons – to ask technology vendors the right questions on your behalf.
