Cash Management Flashcards

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What does Cash Management offer

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Streamline Bus. Processes
Realize greater operational efficiency
Manage Working Cap more efficiently
Reduce Finance Costs
Achieve greater return on your assets
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What is the spread?

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Difference between the Borrowing Rate and the Lending Rate

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3
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How Does TTS Generate Revenue

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NRFF Spread & Float
FX
Fees

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4
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TTS Value to Citi Franchise

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Generates Annutity Revenur
Less credit intensive
Generates over 415BN of liabilities (customer deposits)
Leverages global presence of Citi
Creates regular interaction with client base

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What is Treasury Management

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Ensure the availability of short term liquidity and on going funding to support continued operations and growth and to manage financial risks in a business

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What is the Treasurers focus?

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Reduce Cost of Funding
Provide Liquidity
Manage Risk

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Debt Versus Equity

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Tax Implications
Financial Measures
Financial Leverage
Freeing up Working Capital

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8
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List the 4 types of Market Risk

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FX
Interest Rate
Equity
Commodity

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List 4 Types of counter party risk

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Credit
Liquidity
Settlement
Concentration Risk

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List 4 types of Cross Border Risk

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Political
Convertibility
Transfer ability
Expropriation

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List 4 Types of Operational Risk

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Fraud
System
Controls
Regulatory

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What is Basel 3

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Basel III is a global regulatory standard on bank capital adequacy, stress testing and
market liquidity risk agreed upon by the members of the Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision in 2010-11 to be implemented progressively through to 2018

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Implications of Basel 3 for Banks

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  • Cash Management become even more attractive
  • New bank investment products and charging methodology
  • Greater focus on Working Capital solutions and Corporate Debt Issuance
  • Higher costs for OTC Derivatives
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What is the difference between Central Treasury vs Shared Service Centres

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• Central Treasury covers financial risk,
liquidity and funding & investment
• Systems used are Treasury
Management Systems

• Shared Service Centres handles administrative functions across a corporation
- Systems used are ERP systems that run
all functions across the entire company

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What is clearing

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The process of transmitting, reconciling and, in some cases, confirming payment orders prior to
settlement
‒ Possibly includes the netting of instructions and the establishment of final positions for settlement.
‒ Often the term is used (imprecisely) to include settlement.

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What is Settlement

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‒ An act which discharges obligations in respect of funds transfers between two or more parties.
‒ A settlement may be final or provisional.
‒ Settlement typically occurs across Settlement Accounts held at the Central Bank

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Purpose of RTGS

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Designed to eliminate settlement risk in the payment system
‒ Ensures intra-day finality
‒ Payments are irrevocable
‒ Eliminates systemic risk in the payment system
• Settlement immediately - bilaterally - across settlement accounts with the Central Bank
• Intra-day positions are covered using various techniques:
‒ A collateralised credit facility with the Central Bank
‒ No debit position allowed on Settlement Account
• Can create bank exposures with Central Bank

18
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Payment Settlement Risk Mitigation Techniques

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Unwind
Central Bank Guarantee
Defaulter Pays
Survivor Pays

19
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Resident vs Non Resident Account

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• Definition of a Resident
‒ A company that is legally incorporated, or an individual that is domiciled, for tax purposes in that
country
‒ A non-resident is anyone else
• Why is it relevant?
Tax Treatment 
Reporting 
Banking Services
20
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What is SWIFt

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A co-operative
organisation serving the
financial services industry
A provider of highly secure
financial messaging
services
The financial standardisation body
21
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SWIFT FIN and InterAct

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SWIFT provide two methods for message-by-message communication

22
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What is SWIFTNet FileAct

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  • Provides a secure and reliable file transfer service
  • Used for sending high volume data, such as:
  • Supports Store-and-Forward or Real-Time transfers
  • Provides workflow tools