International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance – Advanced

By François de Witte

27/01/2026

treasuryXL expert François de Witte is excited to share that the Advanced Program in International Treasury Management & Corporate Finance is now open for enrollment!

Description

The treasurer is the custodian of the company’s daily liquidity and financial risks. He manages, anticipates, secures and help optimize cash flows by ensuring that financial needs are covered and appropriate instruments are used, as well as take necessary measures to mitigate financial risks.

Objectives

At the end of this programme, the participant will be able to:

  • assist the treasurer of large corporates directly and practically
  • take over treasury responsibilities in a SME

The various modules will allow to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the different areas of the “Corporate Treasurer” profession.

Program
Module 1: Corporate Finance and Debt Management applied to Treasury
Speaker: Didier Lang –  Financial Management Consultant – member of the ATEL board
  • Introduction :  What is Corporate Finance ?,  Shareholders value 
  • Capital Structure (Debt /Equity)
  • Debt Management
  • Equity Management
  • Intercompany Financing
  • Financial communication
  • Investment Appraisal
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • For all of the above, the role of Finance/Accounting Staff and Corporate Treasury
Module 2: Strategic Treasury Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Speaker: Benjamin Defays Senior Associate Vice President
  • Understand and create a Strategic Treasury Vision and Roadmap to align with business objectives
  • Identifying Stakeholder for an effective Engagement and build a strong Relationship Management
  • Change Management in Treasury Transformation Projects : case studies  of successful treasury transformation projects. 
Module 3 : Financial Maths in Excel (Focus on treasury & corporate finance)

 Speaker: Hugues Pirotte / Professor of Finance at Solvay Brussels School 

  • Focus on treasury & corporate finance
  • Time value of money
  • Vocabulary
  • Compounding intervals
  • Discount and annuity factors
Module 4 : Payments, Cash Management and Banking Relations – Advanced

 Speaker François De Witte / Treasury Consultant

  • Recent trends in payments.

  • Liquidity management – Basic concepts.

  • Cash-Flow forecasting – Advanced topics
  • Treasury organisation – In house bank and payment factory
  • Treasury technology – TMS
  • Hot topics on banking relations – RFP and implementation.
  • Challenges of the banks and impact on the banking relations
  • Open banking – Opportunities for corporates.
Module 5 : Trade Finance – Advanced

 Speaker: Benjamin Defays /  Senior Associate Vice President 

  • General context
  • Cultural aspects
  •  Why trade finance in treasury
  •  Type of instruments
  •  Bank guarantees
  • Bürgschaft
  •  Surety bonds
  •  Letters of credit
  •  Cash against documents
  •  Forfeiting
  •  Factoring & reverse factoring
  •  Alternatives
  •  Cash-in-advance
  •  Corporate guarantees
  • Disruptive technologies
Module 6: Practical Aspects of International Finance Regulation

 Speaker: Lievin Tshikali   

With the successive financial crises, serious concerns have naturally been raised in the population, forcing G24 governments and international organisations to build an incredible set of laws to “better” regulate/monitor the activities of banks and other financial institutions. This module provides an overview of international finance regulation. It considers some regulatory and practical issues affecting transnational financial transactions undertaken by global investment and corporate banks. 

  • International financial crises
  • Evolution of the international banking supervision
  • Functioning of capital markets
  • Governance – Internal control framework
  • Anti bribery / Whistle-blower policies
  • Overview of AML/CFT regulations 
    • Tax evasion – FATCA-CRS regulations
    • Notion of ultimate beneficiary owners 
    • Politically exposed persons 
    • Market abuse regulations
  • MIFID principles
  • GDPR principles
  • International sanctions regimes
Module 7 : Risk Management Applied to Treasury – Advanced

 Speaker: François Masquelier /  CEO 

  • FX, interests
  • Counter-parties
  • Others (reputation, etc…)
  • Objectives of hedge accounting
  • Required documentation and formalisation of hedge accounting relationships
  • Different types of hedges (fair value, cash flow, net investment)
  • Booking adjustments of different hedge types
  • Typical examples of different hedge types
Module 8 : Transfer pricing strategies for intercompany transactions, Asset Management and TMS live demo

 Speaker: François Masquelier /  CEO 

  • New technologies
    • Blockchain, crypto-currencies, smart contracts
  • Treasury Console (Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters)
  • TMS, Financial Technology

Module 9 :  New e-payment methods & Emerging trends in treasury innovation and fintech solutions 

Speaker François De Witte / Treasury Consultant

Overview Recent Regulations Affecting Payments

New e-payment methods for corporates:

  • Digital wallets
  • Request to Pay
  • P2P payments
  • Open Banking Payments
  • Buy Now Pay Later
  • Cryptocurrency payments  & CBCDs

Emerging trends in treasury innovation and fintech solutions: 

  • Big data analytics in treasury
  • Blockchain applications in treasury
  • Artificial Intelligence integration
  • Fintech solutions
  • Open finance.
  • Embedded finance
  • Fintech testimonial: to be confirmed.
  • Expected future trends.
Target Audience

Financial professionals (finance, banking, accounting, tax, treasury…) willing to acquire an in-depth knowledge in corporate treasury and wishing to exercise this knowledge in practice.

Prerequisites

Meet your Trainer: François de Witte

After having worked for more than 30 years in banking, François launched his own consultancy activity, FDW Consult, Services BV, specialized in banking, finance and treasury consulting. From 2014 to 2016, he was also Solution Partner Treasury & Finance at USG Professionals. Since then, he took up several assignments, including one in the automotive sector with Louyet Group, with Ibanity, part of Isabel Group in the area of PSD2 and open banking, and with Gaming1 (In House Bank and Transfer Pricing Project). He has been independent Director at CKV, a small niche player mortgage and savings bank from 2019 until 2022, and worked from February 2023 to October 2023 as Group Treasurer ad interim with Bosal International.

François is lecturer of the course “Advanced Treasury” and “Cash and Working Capital Management” in the Master program “Finance and Treasury” at the IAE Management School (part of the University of Lille), and at Febelfin Academy. He also teaches and has a leading role in the Certificate in International Treasury and Corporate Finance Management organized by ATEL and the House of Training in Luxembourg. François is also member and mentor of Fintech Belgium.

François has a master’s degree both in Law and Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Francois de Witte

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