Treasury Management - London

This one day, in-person event takes place on the 27 June in London and is open to all members from all HEPs.

We will hear from a number of speakers delivering plenary sessions with the opportunity for discussion and questions.

Treasury Management London

09.00 Refreshments and registration

09.30 Welcome

09.35 Kingswood: Treasury investing

Kingswood will provide a clear overview of the important factors involved in treasury investing, including: typical university investment parameters; understanding credit ratings; what investment instruments are available to cash investors; a look at yield curves and finding an appropriate risk / reward balance.

10.20 Cazenove and the University of Warwick: Treasury management

This session will cover what makes an effective treasury policy with input from the University of Warwick, and learnings from their recent treasury policy review.  The session will also cover views on the banking sector and appropriate treasury management in the current macroeconomic environment.

11.05 Break

11.30 QMPF: Financial modelling and forecasting

QMPF will leverage their experience in this area to suggest the best ways to approach modelling for the sector (ensuring they are user-friendly and transparent), how to get the most from your models and then use the outputs to inform business decisions.  They will include:

• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Approaches to model building and modelling best practice;
• Purpose and practicalities – How to get the most from your models including scenario and sensitivity analysis, business case analysis, forecasting, KPI and covenant monitoring; and
• A recent case study - our experiences, reflections and learning points from working with a university over the last 12 months.

 12.15 Insight Investments: Macroeconomic update

Insight Investment will provide a macroeconomic update and discuss current market conditions and events over the past year, and what this could mean for your treasury management.

13.05 Lunch

14.00 BUFDG Review

Rachel will take you through a short BUFDG review session. This is an activity we are delivering at our meetings and events to capture your thoughts to ensure we are delivering the best for you.

14.30: Barclaycard: SCA and 3D Secure – demystifying and navigating the payments landscape

Over the last few years, the payments industry has implemented fraud prevention regulation that has increased friction when making and taking payments. Barclaycard will share how can your institution best navigate these changes? They will provide insight and thought leadership to help you plan an authentication strategy for future payments.

15.15. Break

15.30. Centrus: ESG, sustainability and financial under a sustainability framework

Centrus will take you through the background and growth of ESG financing. They will give an overview of different options and approaches including case studies of sustainable and green financing in the sector. Centrus will give tips on creating your sustainability framework. They will also give a summary of the HE sector credit update.

16.15 ATFS: Financing Strategic Growth Plans

Building a partnership between strategy and finance is key to achieving successful delivery of your aims and ambitions.  Within this session they will explore the challenges universities are facing, how this may adjust strategy and planning. ATFS will talk through the steps of modelling and understanding the key criteria to successful delivery, whilst understanding the level of funding and the right type of funding to support activities.   

17.00 Event close

The event is not being recorded and attendance will be in-person only.  

For any queries, please contact Rachel.

The same event will run in Edinburgh on the 8 June - if this date/location is preferable, please click here to book.