Artificial intelligence and stablecoins have a curious habit of appearing in conversations about the future of corporate treasury. At this year's Treasurers Roundtable in Washington, both featured prominently in discussions around liquidity, cross-border payments and operational efficiency. That may seem like an unlikely pairing, but the more those discussions unfolded, the less surprising it became. AI and stablecoins are solving different problems, and yet both are asking treasury to reconsider something it has largely taken for granted for decades: that the way work gets done, and the way money moves, are fixed constraints rather than processes capable of being fundamentally reimagined.
AI is being touted as a solution to many of the challenges treasury functions are trying to solve, including, but by no means limited to, stablecoin adoption, although it has also prompted many to ask whether it will become their best friend or their worst enemy.
Much of that concern stems from the misconception that AI is here to replace treasurers, when its real value is in automating many of the manual, repetitive, and often time-consuming tasks that consume so much of the treasury function, allowing treasurers to spend less time on administration and more time applying the oversight and strategic thinking that technology cannot replace. That is precisely why AI is far more likely to become treasury's best friend.
While AI is reshaping how treasury functions operate, stablecoins are increasingly reshaping how value moves.
Originally published by African Business.