Session 1:  What are the Key Trends in Treasury Management?

• The economic challenges
• The impact on treasury management
• The impact on model risk within treasury
• The nature of the services and products provided
• The governance structure
• The role of credit committees
• The impact of the digital economy

Discussion: What are the key challenges facing your treasury function? 

Session 2:  The Market Challenges and Opportunities

• The role of inflation risk management in treasury
• Interest rate volatility and management
• Currency volatility and management
• Products and solutions
• The problems with data
• The challenge of behavioural analysis in banking
• The problem with cashflow forecasting
• Data cleansing and data creation
• The ALCO challenge

Case Study/Exercise: Analyse the impact of historic Data post Covid on current decision-making and forecasting

Session 3:  Treasury and Growth Challenges

• The yield curve and long term funding
• Organic Growth
• Mergers & Takeovers
• How this changes finding requirements
• Dealing with merging business units
• Funding Needs
• Liquidity Gap
• Capital regulation
• Instant payments and digital solutions
• The impact on treasury sales and customer expectations

Case Study/Exercise: Develop an internet payments risk scorecard

Session 4: Innovation by Design

• Robotic process automation and its role within treasury
• Implementing integrated workflows
• Using artificial intelligence and machine learning
• The impact of operational resilience on treasury and treasury operations – what needs to be done?
• The role of the cloud and cloud based solutions
• The nature of the available market solutions

Case Study/Exercise: Develop the risk appetite of your treasury function’s exposure to ML and AI

Session 5:  Opportunities for Treasury Risk Management

• The 3 lines model and treasury
• What the changes really mean
• The role of the 2^ndline v the Middle/Back Office
• Developing predictive analytics
• The role of ESG in treasury risk management

Case Study: Developing agile solutions to real-time problems

Session 6:  The Future 

• What will an innovative treasury function look like?
• What skills will be required?
• What will it do?
• Building a modern integrated treasury

Session 7: Summary, discussion, and Q&A

Delegates will gain specialist technical and behavioural knowledge, approaches and application techniques specifically to address the following challenges and opportunities:

• The impact of inflation
• The challenges of interest rate and currency risk
• The role of robotic process automation and workflow integration
• The impact of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and predictive analytics
• The consequences of operational resilience and the three lines model
• The challenges of cashflow management and the changing market

Delegates who complete the course will receive a Certificate with equivalent CPD/CPE credits via email; and for those who require an assessment as a demonstration of competency via training a 20 multiple-choice questions and answers quiz, remotely invigilated with results report and 1 resit, is available at no additional charge when requested at time of reservation.

Highly interactive expert-led intensive presentation, Q&A, group real-time in-depth case studies, regulation and discussion supported by key principles and theory. The virtual learning platform uses safe, industry preferred encrypted Cisco WebEx to optimize live face-to-face visual interaction, discrete chat, for polling and quizzes.

(An invitation via email with access link is included for all participants.)