The Treasurer's Challenge - Managing Interest Rates

The Treasurer is pleased to provide a series of articles on managing interest rates.

The series, entitled The Treasurer’s Challenge: managing value in today’s rate environment focuses on the practical issues arising from managing debt and cash exposures in the current interest rate environment.

A message from the sponsor
At RBS Financial Markets, we believe that treasury management is a key process, interlinked with the underlying business. For us, treasury management means creating bespoke solutions that add value across a increasingly large range of business activities - and across different interest rate environments. We are therefore delighted to support The Treasurer's Challenge Series. For further information on how RBS Financial Markets can be a powerful ally in the markets you have to compete in, please visit us at www.rbsmarkets.com.

Article 1: A look at the economic and business conditions which have led to the current excess of liquidity.

Article 2: Building the perfect balance sheet.

Article 3: Peter Williams assesses the options for treasurers of cash-rich companies.

Article 4: How funding and interest rate management is aligned to debt and interest rate profiles.

Article 5: Report on the roundtable of treasurers and bankers discussing the issues raised in the previous articles.

This series of articles is supported by The Royal Bank of Scotland (www.rbs.co.uk).