Live Session | 2025 Outlook, Maximising cash value in a new interest rate environment

By treasuryXL & Aviva Investors

07/11/2024



Join treasuryXL and Aviva Investors for an exclusive 45-minute live session on the outlook for cash management in 2025.

With central banks around the world now cutting interest rates, getting best value on cash holdings is more important than ever. Join this session for guidance on what is happening with interest rates and what this means for your cash management strategy. The session will compare and contrast cash management products in terms of how best to blend security and liquidity with yield, in a changing interest rate environment.

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Panelist line up:


When? Tuesday, November 19

Start: 10.30 am CET

Duration: 45 minutes

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What’s on the agenda?

  • Interest rate projections and implications for cash managers
  • Comparing cash management options
  • Characteristics of money market funds

We’re excited to have you join us for this dynamic discussion. Throughout the session, you’ll have access to an open chat room, meaning you can engage with our panelists and connect with fellow participants in real-time.

Speakers

Sugandha Singhal

Sr. Vice President – Head Treasury | treasuryXL expert

SRF Limited

Sugandha Singhal is a Treasury Professional with diverse experience in Treasury, Strategic Planning, MIS, and Business analytics. She is passionate about breaking down complex problems and solving them using system-oriented thinking. With strong focus on process improvement, she has lead transformation of the treasury function both in terms of cost-effectiveness and process agility. A firm believer that real change in society must start at individual level she channelizes her spare time in volunteering for the cause.

Sugandha is also the highly commended winner of Adam Smith Asia Award for ‘Best working capital management solution’, winner of ‘Finance Transformation Initiative award of the year’ with C2FO and ‘Out of box thinker Award’ by SRF Limited. You can find more information about these awards on Sugandha’s LinkedIn profile.

Alastair Sewell, CFA

Senior Investment Director

Aviva Investors

Alastair is responsible for developing and executing the firm’s liquidity solutions business strategy, covering money market funds through to ultra-short duration bond funds. In this role, Alastair leads the strategy’s external relationships, drives new product launches, produces research and content and supports portfolio managers in achieving performance targets.

Alastair joined Aviva Investors from Fitch Ratings, where he was Head of Fund Ratings, responsible for producing ratings and research on money market and short duration bond funds in EMEA and Asia Pacific. Prior to this, Alastair was a CDO rating analyst in Fitch’s structured credit group. Alastair started his career at a UK local authority in 2003.

Paul Buck

Seasoned Treasury Professional | treasuryXL expert

treasuryXL

Paul is a treasury professional with a significant track record in managing treasury teams, both smaller and larger. But running a treasury as a one-man function is also part of the track record.

Paul has built specific expertise in setting up international treasury functions from scratch or managing larger treasury transformation processes. In-House Banking in the broader sense (from basic cash pooling and banking RFP’s to virtual bank accounts and settling netting activities through the In-House Bank) is Paul’s specialty. Structuring the In-House Bank and the associated Cash Flow Forecasting in the Treasury Management System is part of Paul’s In-House Bank expertise.

Paul is a teambuilder by empowering team members, creating self-regulating teams and a Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach. He is inspired by the opportunity to “put my soul” in the team & Treasury function, and to make a meaningful difference.

Pieter de Kiewit

Moderator | Managing Director

Treasurer Search

Treasury Aficionado, Recruitment Consultant and Managing Director of  Treasurer Search. Together with his team, Pieter finds candidates for interim assignments and permanent positions in treasury, corporate finance, cash management and related positions. His market focus is the BeNeLux and Germany, his clients are mainly corporates, non-profit and consultancy organizations.

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