What Treasurers Should Ask on the Sibos Floor: J.P. Morgan Payments

Quick Summary

Mali Bartlett, Managing Director, Liquidity & Account Solutions at J.P. Morgan Payments, has three questions every treasurer should take onto the floor at Sibos 2026 in Miami: how to get greater visibility into their global position, which automations can remove manual processing, and how emerging technologies can help their team make better and faster decisions. She also recalls her favourite Sibos moment, a discussion in Beijing on how the industry could co-create liquidity pools for a world of real-time payments.

What should a treasurer be asking on the Sibos floor in Miami?

Asked to imagine a treasurer walking the show floor, Bartlett offers three questions. First: how do I get greater visibility into my global position? Second: what are the automations I can introduce to remove the manual processing my team is doing today? Third: how can these emerging technologies help my team make better and faster decisions?

They are practical questions rather than a shopping list of products, and they give any treasurer a way to test a conversation at the show against a real operational problem.

Where does Bartlett see treasury heading?

For Bartlett, those three questions point to where the industry is heading. It will allow treasury to become more connected, more intelligent and more strategic in the future.

The treasurers who benefit most, she says, will be those who take that visibility and turn it into action and decision making.

What is Mali Bartlett's favourite Sibos moment?

Bartlett has been to Sibos once before, in Beijing. Her favourite moment from that show was one of the opening discussions on how to solve for liquidity in the rise of real-time payments, where different industry groups were considering how to co-create and come together to build different liquidity pools.

She says that question is still at the forefront of her mind, as she thinks about the interplay of liquidity, funding, real time and speed in decision making.

FF NEWS TAKE:

This is a short, usable checklist for a very long week. Visibility, automation and faster decisions run through Bartlett's wider interview, and they make a sensible filter for the Miami floor: if a conversation does not help with at least one of the three, it is probably noise. Her Beijing story is a reminder that the industry has been working out liquidity for real-time payments together at Sibos for some time, and that the answer has always been a joint effort.