Treasury Management

• The Role of the Treasury Function
• Funding and Liquidity Management
• Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Management
• Value-at-Risk, Earnings-at-Risk and Cash-Flow-at-Risk
• Risk Measurement with CorporateMetrics™
• Organization, Procedures, Reporting and Controls

The objective of this seminar is to give you a comprehensive understanding of the objectives, tools and techniques of modern treasury management.

We start with a general discussion of the role of the treasury function in banks and corporations. The importance of funding choices and sound risk management will be explained, and we define the scope, level and content of the tasks of a “typical” treasury function.

We then look in more detail into the techniques and tools available to the treasurer.

We explain how funding issues are resolved and how liquidity and liquidity risk is managed using money and capital market instruments.

Further, we explain how foreign exchange exposure is measured and managed. We discuss the differences between economic and accounting exposure, and we demonstrate various techniques for quantifying and mitigating these types of exposure.

We then discuss how interest rate risk manifests itself in financial institutions and corporations, and we explain how this risk can be effectively measured and managed using “internal” techniques and derivative instruments.

Further, we explain how “Value-at-Risk”, “Earnings-at-Risk” and “Cash-Flow-at-Risk” are measured and used. We shall establish a “Risk Exposure Platform” to analyze the economic and financial effects of changes in commodity prices, exchange rates and interest rates on the company's cash flows. We use “CorporateMetrics™” as a practical example to illustrate how such methodologies can be applied in a corporate framework.

Finally, we discuss how Treasury Management can be organized, suggesting appropriate risk management policies and procedures for top management reporting. Here, we also look at the possible impacts of new accounting rules such as IAS39/FASB133.

 

Day One

09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and Introduction

09.15 - 12.00 The Treasury Function

• Treasury Objectives and Responsibilities
• Scope, Level and Content of Treasury Management
• An ALM Framework for Treasury Management
  • Difference between banks and corporations
• How Treasury Management Can Create Shareholder Value

Funding and Liquidity Management

• Funding Sources in Financial Markets
• Using Asset Securitisation as a Funding Tool
  • How RAROC can be improved through securitization
• Managing Liquidity Risk

Foreign Exchange Management

• Measuring FX Exposure
  • Economic, translation and transaction exposure
• Internal FX Management Techniques
• Managing FX Risk with Derivatives
• Cases and Exercises

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 16.30 Interest Rate Management

• Ways of Looking at Interest Rate Risk
  • Re-pricing risk
  • PV risk
• Measuring Interest Rate Risk
  • GAP analysis
  • Simulation approaches
  • Duration analysis
  • Yield curve analysis
• Managing Interest Rate Risk with Derivatives
  • Hedging re-pricing risk with FRAs and interest rate futures
  • Hedging loans with interest rate swaps
  • Hedging floating rate notes with caps, floors and collars
  • Hedging PV risk with futures and options
• Exercises

Day Two

09.00 - 09.15 Brief recap

09.15 - 12.00 Advanced Treasury Risk Management

• VaR and its Role in Treasury Risk Management
• Calculating VaR
  • Mapping of cash flows
  • Calculating undiversified VaR
  • Calculating diversified VaR
• Calculating “Cash-Flow-at-Risk”
• Calculating “Earnings-at-Risk”
• Exercises

Risk Management Case Study: CorporateMetrics™

• What is CorporateMetrics?
• How Does CorporateMetrics Work?
• Implementing CorporateMetrics
• Managerial Applications
  • Which hedging strategy to use
  • Market risk limits
• Regulatory Reporting
• Exercises

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 16.30 Organisation, Procedures, Reporting and Controls

• Establishing the Framework for Treasury Management
  • Defining risk attitude and risk tolerance
  • Formulating a treasury policy
  • Organisation and Responsibilities
  • Reporting
• Accounting Issues Related to Use of Financial Instruments
  • FAS133 and IAS139
• Treasury IT Systems
• Benchmarking and Performance Measurement

Evaluation and Termination of the Seminar