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Corporate Treasury Masterclass - The FX Effect

Join speakers from Azzana, Kyriba, Refinitiv, Reuters and SWIFT together with ACTS on 4th April to learn and discuss how you can evolve your treasury to better handle the increasingly complex world of FX.

Corporate treasury management in Asia is challenging due to increasing complexities that arise from the fragmented nature of the region further complicated by ever changing landscapes. FX Risk Management is often identified as one of the areas for Corporate Treasurers to get right. Automation is one of the optimal solution to overcome these challenges. With the right tools and tech solutions in place, the end-to-end treasury workflow can be sped up, made more efficient, with scalable and more secure setup.

With business operations and cash-flows dispersed across many different countries with their own capital and trade controls, cross-border trading and reporting regulations, it can be hard to get a true view on cash-flow and forecasting. Adding increased FX volatility due to the changing macroeconomic environment, such as the China-US trade war or oil price movements, it can be difficult to assess FX liquidity and hedging requirements. And that’s before the actual trading, settlement and reporting is factored in. 

Register for the event now to learn how you can evolve your treasury to better handle the complex world of FX.

Agenda

2:30pm Registration
3:00pm Welcome and Introduction
  Raj Melvani, Director – Corporates & Commodities, Market Development, Asia, Refinitiv
Goh Seng Ti, President, Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore)
3:15pm Paving the way for a best-in-class FX risk management framework
  - With the rising tensions between the US and China, the uncertainty around the Brexit, have led to create more instability, making the FX risk management one of the top priorities for the Treasury organizations.
- The treasurers’ challenges in managing the FX risks and to share the best practices in term of risk management framework.

Antoine Degardin, Managing Partner, Azzana
3:30pm Asia vs. Rest of the World - What's driving Asian currency movements?
  - Reuters Editorial provides more market moving news than any other financial publisher globally.
- An overview of what to expect in 2019 with a particular focus on commodities and currency.

Henning Gloystein, Energy Editor, Asia / Deputy Editor in Charge, Asia Commodities, Reuters
3:45pm How can corporates leverage on technologies to streamline workflows
  - Visualization of cash positions, FX exposures, FX trades, and net FX positions against FX hedging policies
- Settlements of FX trades, within a payment workflow, straight to banks
- Mark-to-Market / Hedge Accounting with GL posting to ERPs

Cedric Chambault, Sales Director, Kyriba
4:00pm FX Trading - from pre-trade, trade execution to post-trade
  - Assess market environment & fair-value price before making a FX trading decision.
- Routing FX trade requirements from the TMS to most suitable on-shore or off-shore bank provider.  Auto reconcile with bank & route ticket back into the TMS.
- Track on-going valuations required for accounting reporting (eg. IFRS9) & portfolio valuation.

Raj Melvani, Director – Corporates & Commodities, Market Development, Asia, Refinitiv
4:15pm How innovation is reshaping the corporate FX market - A post trade perspective
  - Examining the global and regional trends in the FX market
- Enhancing the current infrastructure, find out what the industry is saying.
- What’s in store for the FX community.

Ivan Koh, Director, Corporates and Asset Managers APAC, SWIFT
4:30pm Panel Discussion
  Nitin Jain, Head of Treasury & Capital Markets, Agrocorp International
Antoine Degardin, Managing Partner, Azzana
Cedric Chambault, Sales Director, Kyriba
Ivan Koh, Director, Corporates and Asset Managers APAC, SWIFT
Raj Melvani, Director – Corporates & Commodities, Market Development, Asia, Refinitiv
5:00pm Networking Reception

Event info

  • Date

    4 April 2019, Thursday

  • Time

    2:30pm - 5:00pm (followed by networking drinks)

  • Location

    One Raffles Quay, North Tower, Level 28, S(048583)

Speakers

Goh Seng Ti, President, The Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore)

Goh Seng Ti, General Manager, Finance & Administration, Isuzu Motors Asia Limited

Seng Ti heads the Treasury & Accounting and the Human Resource & General Affairs departments in Isuzu Motors Asia Limited. He has 12 years of corporate and market experience spanning from sell to buy sides. He is the current President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore) and is active in the Corporate Treasury scene. Seng Ti holds a MBA from Nanyang Business School and Executive Programme from IMD Lausanne.

Antoine Degardin, Managing Partner, Azzana

Antoine Degardin is the Managing Partner of Azzana, a consulting firm expert in Corporate Treasury and Transaction Banking.

Antoine has worked in both Global Financial Institutions and Corporate Treasury departments with a strong focus on Risk, Cash Management and Corporate Finance.

Nitin Jain, Head of Treasury & Capital Markets, Agrocorp International

Nitin has about 15 years of experience in the areas of global commodity trading, foreign exchange & risk management, debt capital markets, cash management, hedge fund and structured finance. He joined as head of treasury and capital markets at Agrocorp International in 2019 and was with Xangbo Global Markets and Cargill India previously.

Cedric Chambault, Sales Director, Kyriba

Cedric has over 10 years’ experience in Finance & Treasury and has been working closely with corporates in Asia for the past 6 years, in Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.

Raj Melvani, Director – Corporates & Commodities, Market Development, Asia, Refinitiv

Raj Melvani is the Director of Corporates & Commodities, Market Development for Asia. Currently based in Singapore, Raj previously held various business development roles at Refinitiv (formerly known as Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business) in Hong Kong & Australia covering financial markets solutions & services to a wide number of global & regional banks, global Inter-Dealer Brokers (IDBs) & large corporates. His most recent role was Asia Business Development for FX workflow solutions. Prior to working at Thomson Reuters, Raj worked within the FICC business at a leading Australian investment bank. Raj holds an Engineering (Honours) & Science degree from a leading Australian university.

Henning Gloystein, Energy Editor, Asia / Deputy Editor in Charge, Asia Commodities, Reuters

Henning Gloystein is the Managing Editor for energy news across Asia/Pacific at Reuters, based in Singapore.
He is also Deputy Editor in Charge for Commodities for the region. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2014, Henning was Head of European Power, Gas & Coal markets for Reuters in London. Before joining Reuters, Henning was Associate Editor and Team Leader for European power markets at Platts, also in London. Prior to getting involved in energy and commodities markets, Henning was a news correspondent and photographer with assignments in Colombia, Africa, East Timor, and in Europe. Henning, who is half British/German, holds a joint Masters degree in History, Politics & the History of Science and Technology from Humboldt and Technical universities in Berlin.

Ivan Koh, Ivan Koh, Director, Corporates and Asset Managers APAC, SWIFT

Ivan is currently Director for Corporates and Asset Managers at SWIFT, helping corporates with the digital transformation of their treasury operations to achieve cash visibility, improve operational efficiencies and mitigate operational risks for payments.
Having worked at Bloomberg and S&P prior to joining SWIFT, Ivan has over 20 years of domain expertise in the information and market data technology industry. Besides experience working across cultures and managing sales teams in Asia, Ivan is also a certified trainer, specialising in sales communication and presentation technique.

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