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      Rachel Whelan

      Rachel Whelan

      Managing Director, APAC & MEA Head of Corporate Cash Management & Global Head of Payments & TFX Product Mgmt

      Deutsche Bank

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      Rachel is the APAC & MEA Regional Head of Corporate Cash Management where she is responsible for the Cash Business across 18 diverse and highly regulated countries. Rachel is also the Global Head of Payments & Transactional FX Product Management for Corporate Cash Management at Deutsche Bank leading the strategic vision for the Payment & FX product offerings and strategic landscape development, working closely with clients and partners to build the next generation of product capabilities to support the future of cash management. She is very interested in new technologies and how these can be integrated together to support our clients to grow their businesses in a secure and scalable way.

      Rachel has 29 years industry experience and has been with Deutsche Bank in Singapore for 19 years and in London for 4 years, covering several roles including business strategy, business development, programme management and product management, working across both Corporate Bank in Cash Management and Investment Bank in FX, MM, Derivatives and Commodities businesses.

      Rachel is a qualified Associate Member of CIMA, qualifying out of Athlone institute of Technology, Ireland. She is passionate about building & leading strong, diverse & dynamic teams and is a diversity and inclusion advocate and pillar lead at Deutsche Bank. She is one of the founding members of the Deutsche Bank Women@CorporateBank which is grassroots initiative that supports the growth and development of future female leaders at Deutsche Bank.

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      • 12:30–1:30pmMon 16 NovWorkshopWorkshop Room 3Open

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        Moving Beyond 24x7 Payments: Seamless Always-On Interbank Settlement - Powered by Partior

        WorkshopWorkshop Room 3Open

        About this session

        Instant payment rails have improved payment speeds. The harder constraint now sits behind them. Intraday liquidity is still trapped in pre-funded nostro accounts. Repo and FX swap activity is still bound by cut-off times and business-day calendars. Treasurers still hold costly buffers against periods when markets are closed. As tokenised assets and continuous trading scale, markets will need more than 24x7 payments. They will need always-on interbank settlement and liquidity.

        Drawing on the LSEG Digital Settlement House (DiSH) and Partior partnership, this workshop brings together a market infrastructure provider, global banks and an interbank settlement network to explore what it will take:

        • Settling across banks and currencies: How can real-time, multi-bank settlement with shared rules on finality work across currencies and time zones?
        • Managing settlement liquidity around the clock: How can banks fund and rebalance the liquidity they need to settle payments at any hour, and can intraday repo and FX swaps extend beyond today’s cut-offs to support it?
        • Releasing trapped liquidity: How much pre-funding could banks free up, and what would that mean for balance sheet and capital decisions?
        • Moving from pilot to scale: What operating, risk and regulatory conditions must be met before treasurers, boards and supervisors are comfortable with banks relying on this outside business hours?

        Participants will leave with a clear view of what is live today, what remains in pilot, and the decisions institutions should make now to prepare for markets that never close. Treasury, markets and payments leaders are invited to bring their own questions to the discussion.