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Description
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.
Programme
Module 1: 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 2 : 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 3 : 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 4 : 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 5: 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 6 : 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 7 : 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 8 : 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
- Background in finance or account
- For the advanced Excel workshop, a preliminary (good) knowledge in Excel is required
- And/or have already completed the course "International Treasury Management and Corporate Finance - Fundamentals"
Conditions
Course Material
Please note that for environmental reasons no paper version of the training material will be provided for your training. The course material can be downloaded free of charge via your portal before the start of the course (download the Client Portal User’s Guide here). You will be able to view it on the screen of your mobile device or print it if necessary. If your registration has been made by a training manager of your company please contact him/her so that he/she can give you access to it or send it to you.
Registration
In order to be accepted to this certified path it will be asked to complete this
Once completed, you will be contacted for a quick discussion.
This training will be planned and will start when a sufficient number of participants has been reached. You will then be informed at least 3 weeks before the start of the course.
If you do not wish to be certified but are interested in the topics, almost every course can be purchased independently by clicking on the title in the content below.
This certified path is a blended training which contains both physical (Luxembourg based training) and virtual classroom, e-mentoring, teamwork, etc..
Certificate
At the end of the programme, the participants will receive a “Certificate of Attendance” delivered by the House of Training, and an attestation of “Exam Success Pass” delivered by ATEL.
In order to get certified, an 80% rate of attendance and a 60% average score on the examinations are required.
The participants will also receive a one-year free membership to ATEL giving a number of advantages.
Location
L-1615 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Sessions and schedules
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Tue 04.03.2025
19:00 to 20:00
1H
Kick-off - Parcours International Treasury - Advanced
Classe virtuelle
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Mon 10.03.2025
08:30 to 12:30
4H
Strategic Treasury Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Tue 11.03.2025
08:30 to 17:30
8H
Financial Maths in Excel (Focus on treasury & corporate finance)
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Wed 12.03.2025
08:30 to 17:30
8H
Payments, Cash Management and Banking Relations - Advanced
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Thu 13.03.2025
08:30 to 17:30
8H
Trade Finance applied to Treasury - Advanced
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Mon 17.03.2025
18:00 to 21:30
3H30
Practical Aspects of International Finance Regulation
Classe virtuelle
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Wed 19.03.2025
08:30 to 17:30
8H
Risk Management applied to Treasury - Advanced
Classe virtuelle
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Thu 20.03.2025
18:00 to 21:30
3H30
Risk Management applied to Treasury - Advanced
Classe virtuelle
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Tue 25.03.2025
18:00 to 20:00
2H
International Treasury - Advanced - E-mentoring
Classe virtuelle
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Wed 26.03.2025
08:30 to 17:30
8H
Transfer pricing strategies for intercompany transactions, Asset Management and TMS live demo
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Thu 27.03.2025
17:00 to 21:00
4H
New e-payment methods & Emerging trends in treasury innovation and fintech solutions
Classe virtuelle
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Wed 02.04.2025
18:00 to 20:00
2H
Group e-mentoring Final Case Preparation
Classe virtuelle
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Wed 23.04.2025
13:00 to 14:00
1H
Final Case Study - International Treasury - Advanced
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Mon 12.05.2025
18:00 to 21:00
3H
Examen - Parcours International Treasury - Advanced
Classe virtuelle
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