Treasury Strategy & Transformation
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Do You Know the Top 12 Areas Group Treasurers are Investing their Resources in 2015/16?

by IQPC

The Group Treasurers Exchange has conducted research with more than 80 Heads of Treasury. They have summarised the focus areas, challenges and what solutions Group Treasurers are looking for under 12 topic sub-headers, all of which will be addressed at the Exchange in September. Read on to discover where group treasurers are focusing their attention and their resources in 2015 to 2016 to help you work out where your services or solutions can help.

Financial Risk Management

Management of FX exposure and managing / minimising risk; FX trading platforms; managing FX risk and making sure that it’s correctly hedged.

Financing in Emerging Markets

Supply chain solutions; strategies for setting free trapped cash; liquidity challenges; cash management problems operating in various markets; banking partners and relationships with banks locally; ways to effectively manage foreign exchange; visibility -liquidity statuses; optimal method of transferring cash to these countries – trapped cash as a way around this by using dividends.

Centralised Treasury Management

Implementing a TMS – looking to improve cash forecasting systems – systems integration; centralization of payment factions – improving payment process; centralising of treasury operations; cash reporting and system integration; centralising cash management for companies operating in a number of jurisdictions; centralised vs decentralised; looking at a shared service centre – shared centre concept for payment processing is a more centralised procedure; do treasurers need so many systems – can they be more automated and centralised?; centralised payment factory intra group loan reporting to create more visibility; using dividends.