Industry Reports and Presentations
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Presentations
  Telling your credit story and the credit rating process
Hosted 19th May 2010. This presentation held in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, explained the process of getting a credit rating but at the same time drawing out how best a company can present its case to its bankers.

Presenters
Timothy Poole – Director, Director, Client Business Management, Standard & Poor's - London
 
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  Managing treasury risk in Bord Gais
Hosted 14th April 2010. This presentation held in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, outlined the major developments taking place at Bord Gais and gave an insight into how Bord Gais manages treasury risk.

Presenters
Michael O'Sullivan – Finance Director, Bord Gais
 
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  Borrowing in the US Private Placement Market - a Credit Crunch Story/Case Study
Hosted 15th January 2010. This session held in The Clarion Hotel, IFSC, Dublin 1, talked about borrowing in the U.S. Private Placement market, a market that more and more Irish companies are looking to for long term funds. Michael Barry, Director of Finance and Corporate Services spoke of Bord na Mona's specific experience in the markets, and what the issues of concern were etc. Barclays supported Bord na Mona in their fund raising and Angus Whelchel, Director – Private Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, also talked more generally about the market.

Presenters
Michael Barry - Director of Finance and Corporate Services
Angus Whelchel - Private Capital Markets, Barclays Capital
 
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  Corporate Recovery and Receivership - What a treasurer needs to know.
Hosted 29th April 2009. This session held in The Clarion Hotel, IFSC, Dublin 1, gave a comprehensive overview and update on the important features of the Irish court protection process, to highlight how it can impact on the work of a corporate treasurer and to give some insight into financial outcomes via some worked examples.

Presenters
Michael Murphy - McCann Fitzgerald
David Hughes - Ernst & Young
 
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  The Credit Crunch - an update a year on
Hosted 10th March 2009. Further to a presentation made last year, Rothschild returned to brief us on their view of the credit crisis a year on, and to advise on how to optimise our position in this difficult environment. Swagata Ganguly, Executive Director from Rothschild in London gave us his company’s insights into what the future holds in the critical area.

Presenter
Swagata Ganguly - Director, Rothschild
 
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  Funding the Capital Programme at Dublin Airport
Hosted 30th April 2008. This presentation outlined the major developments taking place at Dublin Airport and gave an insight into how the DAA funded this development.

Presenters
Andrew Glover – Treasury Manager, Dublin Airport Authority
 
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  The Credit Crunch - a borrower's perspective
Hosted 19th February 2008. At this very well supported and received meeting, current conditions in the credit markets tracking back from the crisis in the US sub prime housing market last summer were discussed. An insight was given into the impact that this has had on bank and institutional appetite for corporate credit, and how Irish treasurers could tailor their approach to the credit markets in 2008 to take account of the new market paradigm.

Presenters
Ranjit Munro – Managing Director, Rothschild Debt Advisory
Fidelma Griffin - Director, AIB Corporate Banking
 
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  Investment Funds overview for Corporate Treasurers
Hosted 26th September 2007. This session held in The Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin, at the Corporate Treasury and Cash Management Conference, gave a comprehensive overview and update on Investment Funds including:
  • Overview of Irish Funds Market
  • Market Developments in Europe
  • Opportunities for banks in servicing investment funds
  • Investment Funds for Corporate Treasurers
Presenter
Eimear Cowhey - Independent Director/Consultant
 
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  Treasury Software – Get your Systems Right!
Hosted 13th February 2007. This session gave an insight into FX and Money Market Trading Platforms and Treasury Management Systems.

Presenters
Jeremy Carvell - Director 360T Treasury Systems, Frankfurt
John Byrne - Director Salmon Software, Dublin
 
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  An insight into treasury management in a FTSE100 company
Hosted 16th November 2006. This session gave an insight into treasury management in Diageo plc, covering items such as financial policy, liquidity profile and pension risk management.

Presenter
Marcel Miller - Director of Treasury Middle Office, Diageo plc
 
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  Treasury Best Practice - Treasury Management on a Global Basis
Hosted 16th May 2006. This session gave an in-depth insight into how a large multinational's global treasury centre is managed with a particular emphasis on global foreign exchange management.

Presenter
Stuart Kirk - Senior Treasury Manager, Xerox
 
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  Treasury and new accounting standards - there may be trouble ahead!
Hosted 1st March 2006. This session held in Cork, provided information on the fundamental changes which have started to apply to accounting and disclosure in the area of funding and treasury risk management.

Presenters
Niall MacLochlainn - Company Accountant, Ridge Developments
Niall Kelly - Head of Group Treasury, DCC plc

 
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  Planning and Executing an Acquisition Integration - A Treasury Perspective
Hosted 30th November 2005. At this very well supported and received meeting kindly sponsored by IIB Bank, two leading treasurers shared their wide experiences of financing and then integrating acquisitions into the existing treasury framework.

Presenters
Rossa McCann - Group Treasurer, CRH plc
Niall Kelly - Head of Group Treasury, DCC plc

 
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  IAS 39 ? The Last Word
Hosted 7th October 2005. Comprehensive update on the complex issues surrounding the implementation of IAS 39 from both compliance and treasury operational perspectives. Kieran Kelly and Mark Baillie gave two complementary presentations.

Presenters
Kieran Kelly - Partner, Ernst & Young
Mark Baillie - Associate Director, Barclays Capital UK

 
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  From Vision to Reality.... Restructuring Revenue.
Hosted in conjunction with MBA Association of Ireland on 28th June 2005.

Revenue has implemented a completely new organisational structure, designed to align with a strategic vision of maximising taxpayer compliance. The presentation sets out the experience of leading fundamental change in one of the State's oldest and most important bodies.

Presenter
Frank Daly - Chairman, Revenue Commissioners

 
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  Improving Personal Effectiveness.
Seminar conducted on behalf of the Association by Learn Purple on 9 June 2005.

Outline presentation on our recent seminar on improving personal effectiveness.

The objective of the seminar was to give some good pointers and guidance to those attending to help them to become increasingly goal focused and outcome orientated in their work, through particular emphasis on effective planning, time management and delegation techniques.

 
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  Insights into Corporate Funding and Bank Lending.
Hosted 5th May 2005. A comprehensive overview and update on corporate funding and lending markets including:
  • Types of Bank Debt Funding and Current Market Trends
  • Financial Covenants ? Current Usage and Impact of IFRS
  • Interest Rate and Credit Environment
  • Bank Assessment of Risk and Price
  • US Private Placement Market

Presenters
Fergus McDonald - Director - Institutional Banking, Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking

 
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  Treasury Risk Management - Theory and Practice.
Hosted 15 March 2005 with the Cork Society of Chartered Accountants and sponsored by Ulster Bank Financial Markets (UBFM), this covered recent trends and current outlook for Euro interest rates, the Euro exchange rate against Sterling and US Dollar, instruments available to manage these risks, best practice aspects of using risk management instruments, practical implications of using risk management instruments (including recent accounting pronouncements) and recent product development.

Presenters
Niall Dunne - Financial Markets Strategist, UBFM
Fiona Kingston - Business Development Manager, UBFM - Treasury
John Finn - Managing Director of Treasury Solutions Ltd, the Cork-based Treasury and Corporate Finance consultancy.
 
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Reports
  Sterling Faces uncertain Future – Oct 09
This document was prepared by Sean MacHale, Head of Treasury, HSBC Ireland.


 
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  Treasury Operations and Transfer Pricing Working Group - June 09
This technical document was prepared and issued by the EACT.
It sets out to explain the general principles of transfer pricing and how they link in with the operation of the Treasury in an organisation.


 
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  Further Intervention Required to Support Commerce
This statement was prepared and issued following the recent IGTA meeting in Toronto.


 
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  Treasury Operations and Transfer Pricing Working Group
This draft document was prepared and issued by the EACT with a twofold objective to:
1. Address the transfer pricing issues relating to Treasury operations in a practical manner and
2. Prepare fellow Corporate Treasurer members for CFO position in international groups where transfer pricing is of growing importance.


 
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  Investment Funds overview for Corporate Treasurers
The effects of the sub-prime market and the ensuing credit and liquidity crisis were the main talking points of the conference endorsed by the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers (IACT) in September 2007. It saw treasurers addressing the main issues of the day, notably the effect of the credit and liquidity crisis on the profession, and the general economic outlook for treasurers. Topics as diverse as global warming and pension risk were also covered at the two-day event.


 
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  New Legal Framework for Payments in the Internal Market
The Association is a member association of the European Associations of Corporate Treasurers (the "EACT"). These reports comprises the EACT's recent comments on the proposed EU Directive concerning a proposed New Legal Framework for Payments in the Internal Market, together with the EACT's earlier comments on the initial Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning a New Legal Framework for Payments in the Internal Market (Consultative Document).


 
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  Code of Standard Practices for Rating Agencies
This draft Code of Standard Practices for Rating Agencies was prepared and issued on behalf of the EACT and the IGTA, of each of which the Association is an active member. It has been welcomed by IOSCO and some of its proposals were incorporated in IOSCO's 2004 Code. Also attached are a related IGTA Press Release and an IGTA April 2005 Status Report.


 
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