Lisa Dukes

Co-founder, Dukes & King

Articles

Treasury’s Got Talent, But How Can Firms Find More – and Keep it?

Industry experts consider how organisations can retain their best performers and examine the difficulties presented by the new recruitment landscape.

The Power to Change

Drax is driving its sustainability response to the next level with an innovative multi-asset derivative model.

My Life in Treasury: Lisa Dukes

You have to be bulletproof to succeed in treasury, as well as being not only a Jack of all trades but a master of them all, according to Lisa Dukes. But if you can view your department as a balloon rather than a ladder, your roles will expand according to your...

Through the Portal: Opening the Door to Process Efficiencies at Drax

Drax’s Treasury and Corporate Finance team needed a new money market fund (MMF) portal solution to improve their control environment, streamline their workflow and automate their manual processes. Here, Lisa Dukes, Deputy Group Treasurer, Drax, outlines the benefits...

Changing the Rules: Redefining MMF Workflows at Drax

Turn the clock back to 2018 and manually transferring money market fund trade data between systems was taking up too much of Drax’s treasury team’s valuable time. Fast forward to today and straight-through processing of data has been achieved thanks to an exemplary...

Blog

ACT Conference Recap on the FX Global Code

At the recent ACT conference held in Liverpool on 21-22 May, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel session focused on embracing best practice through codes of conduct. For those who couldn’t make the...