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Why Banks Need FinTech To Address Their Own Complicated Treasuries

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When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help. But the banks themselves also have complex demands for their own treasury departments, which, like other corporations, must be able to manage finances, risk and compliance.

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34 Competencies required to become a CFO(SA)

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Competencies include: Working knowledge of risk management, budget, and forecasting tools. Investment and credit risk knowledge. Treasury and investment management. Information quality and control rationalisation are top-of-mind issues for the Steward. Accounting knowledge (IFRS and taxation). Project management.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?”

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Transcript: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine

Barry Ritholtz

And what I hear from a lot of people is, and I’ll hear it from the credit team significantly at the firm yield buyer, there’s a yield buyer, there’s a yield buyer, and there’s a threshold of yields. Well, if you only care about yield, just go buy treasuries. You have to get compensated for each risk.

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

Barry Ritholtz

And don’t take a lot of risk and make a lot of money, supposedly, right? And so I go into ’97, my book, the restructuring book has a $5 million, what do you call it, budget, then they raised it to 10, then they raised it to 30, and then they raised it to 40. So we have to think about credit risk like everybody else.