1. EXPERT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Greg Bullock
Group Treasury Manager
Wilmar Sugar Australia
Pty Ltd
Brian Parker
Chief Economist
SunSuper
Justin Chau
Assistant Treasurer
Scentre Group
Alice Van Der Geest
Treasurer
Australian Post
Fulvio Barbuio
Head Corporate Treasury
and Risk
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation
Grant Priest
General Manager -
Treasury & Finance Risks
NBN Australia
Vincent Chin
Head of Treasury
Goodman
Managing Market Risk To Become
A More Effective Treasury Leader
Main Conference: 10th and 11th May
Pre Conference Workshops: 9th May
Venue: The Royce Hotel, Melbourne, VIC
Researched and Development by:
• Identify new strategies from 19
of Australia’s leading treasury
experts, to effectively manage
your financial risk (Liquidity, Capital
Management, Economic Changes,
Interest Rates, Currency Risk, Cash-
Flow Management, Cyber- Fraud
Management)
• Maximise your hedging strategies
to become an efficient treasury
partner
• Develop your role of the treasurer
to become a efficient and strategic
business partner
• Optimise your cash-flow forecasts
to make strategic decisions
REASONS TO ATTEND
THIS CONFERENCE:
TOP REASONS TO ATTEND:
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Case studies and best practice examples by
Australia’s leading industry professionals
Expert led discussion panels on cash-flow forecasting,
alternative sources of funding, liquidity management,
and developing leadership skills of the Treasurer
Countless networking opportunities including speed
networking, discussion tables, networking breaks,
lunches and a cocktail evening
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Interactive roundtable discussions to help you
work through the most pressing challenges in
hedging, currency risk, and investment portfolios,
to develop key strategies you can implement
back on the job
Lightening talk case studies on managing
financial risk, to develop new strategies and ideas
from leading professionals
SUPER EARLY BIRD
*Register pay before 11th March 2016 and save up to 850!*
Isham Nilar
Treasury Risk Manager
Qantas
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Hello and welcome to the Corporate Treasury Summit,
Due to interest rate fluctuations, currency risk, and
regulatory change, the role of the Treasurer is now more
important than ever. Treasury transformation requires
important structuring and management around liquidity,
risk, capital holding, and cash-flow. Becoming more
strategic and efficient are key skills needed in a decisive
leader and successful Treasurer.
With this in mind, Corporate Treasury 2016 will tackle
treasury transformation in its finest form, addressing
current and upcoming regulations, best practices for
financial risk management, innovative technologies, skills
for becoming a more effective treasurer, emerging market
and interest rate trends, cyber risk management, and new
payment platforms.
This programme will address the following key challenges:
• Managing financial risk (Liquidity, Capital Management,
Economic Changes, Interest rates, Currency Risk,
Cash-Flow Management, Cyber- Fraud Management)
• Developing hedging strategies to become an efficient
treasury partner
• Developing the role of the treasurer to become a
strategic business partner
• Optimising your cash-flow forecasts as a strategic
business tool
What will you take out of this event?
Proven and practical experience is guaranteed at the
Corporate Treasury Summit 2016. Valuable ideas and
practices will be experienced first hand through case
studies presented by leading treasury professionals.
You will learn from national and international experts to
gain insights, identify opportunities and take away key
strategies for successful financial risk management.
I look forward to seeing you next May in Melbourne.
Kind regards,
Sophia Harris
Conference Producer
INCREASED INTERACTIVITY
• 4 Panel Discussions with key industry leaders
• Roundtable Discussions around pressing challenges
in the sector
• Speed Networking, Networking Lunches, and Networking
Cocktail drinks
• Lightening Case Study Discussions to implement new ideas
and strategies through scenario planning
WHY SPONSOR OR EXHIBIT AT
CORPORATE TREASURY 2016?
• Gain preferential access to the senior executives in your target
market and demonstrate your newest products
• Meet decision makers face-to-face to leverage your product
and brand building
• Establish strong relationships and make proposals to potential
customers
• Demonstrate your expertise and product excellence
For specific details of sponsorship and exhibition packages,
please call us on (02) 9229 1050 or email
sponsorbranding@iqpc.com.au
WHO WILL YOU MEET AT
CORPORATE TREASURY?
Head/Director/Manager of:
• Treasurer
• Group Treasurer
• Head Treasurer/Treasury
• Senior Treasurer
• Treasury officer
• Assistant Treasurer
• Corporate Treasury
• Finance Director
• Funding Officer
• Chief Accountant
• Chief Finance Officer
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THE EXPERT SPEAKER PANEL
Fulvio Barbuio
Head Corporate Treasury
and Risk
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation
Simon Hicks
Senior Commercial Analyst/
Treasury Manager
Melbourne Water
Arthur Jayasinghe
Head of Treasury and Capital
Management
Bupa
Greg Bullock
Group Treasury Manager
Wilmar Sugar Australia
Pty Ltd
Justin Chau
Assistant Treasurer
Scentre Group
Brian Parker
Chief Economist
SunSuper
Piero Cabrera
Senior Treasury Advisor
Quadrant Energy
Darren Baxter
International Tax and Treasury
Manager,
Billabong Group
Brad Burns
Treasurer
Hastings Deering Ltd
Michael Ewison
Assistant Treasurer
MMG
Grant Priest
General Manager -
Treasury Finance Risks
NBN Australia
Sushma Rao
Director of Treasury
Management
NSW Treasury
Prof Kevin Davis
Professor of Finance
University of Melbourne
Fehraz Fallil
GM Treasury
and Financial Accounting
ICare
Alice Van Der Geest
Treasurer
Australian Post
Daniel Baird
Head of Corporate Finance
University of Melbourne
Vincent Chin
Head of Treasury
Goodman
Anna Sudlow
Commercial and Investor
Relations Manager
Tap Oil
Stephen Harper
GM Treasury Investor
Relations
Pact Group
Isham Nilar
Treasury Risk Manager
Qantas
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WORKSHOP A:
08.30 AM – 11.00 AM
Becoming a Treasury Risk
Management Champion
Financial risk management has become the core function for
organisations worldwide. It is no longer just a concern, but a
strategic focus which highlights a crucial need for organisations
to look very carefully at their treasury function and the practices
they adopt. Join this engaging workshop to equip yourself with
the skills and knowledge to manage risk, allocate funds effectively
and increase investor and bank relationship value.
What the workshop will cover:
• Managing risk and creating opportunity through extreme
volatility
• Highlighting the fundamentals of efficient risk management
• Innovative strategies to tackle market risk including liquidity,
cash flow, currency risk and capital management
• Managing relationships with rating agencies, and debt
investors
How you will benefit:
• Learn how to identify your organisations exposures
• Develop innovative strategies to manage financial risk
• Gain practical techniques to manage risks, allocate funds
effectively and improve shareholder value
• Generate a good policy that manages financial risk
Ivan StClair
Director
Treasury Training Services
WORKSHOP B:
11.30 AM – 02.00 PM
Treasury Transformation:
Enhancing Your Leadership Skills
The role of treasury has grown and is now is a key finance
function that is vital to the financial health and success of every
business. A successful Treasurer must be more strategic and
efficient to be able to adapt to economic changes and undertake
effective risk management. Join this workshop to gain the skills
you need to adapt efficiently within todays financial markets and
substantially add value to your organisation.
What the workshop will cover:
• Highlighting key challenges faced with treasurers to overcome
and apply opportunities within your role
• How to strengthen a working relationship with the CFO to
build a strong finance department
• How you can become a strategic business partner and make
executive decisions more efficiently
• Strengthening the role of the treasurer - what sort of treasurer
does your organisation want to create?
How you will benefit:
• Create shareholder value and build investor relationships
• Develop best practices in managing relationships with rating
agencies to best reflect your company’s industry rating
• Acquire skills to become more efficient in day to day
operations and decision making
• Deliver value to your organisation by enhancing your strategic
decision-making skills
Co - Facilitated by
Sushma Rao
Director of Treasury
Management
NSW Treasury
Fehraz Fallil
GM Treasury and Financial
Accounting
ICare
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
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WORKSHOP C:
03.00 PM – 5.30 PM
Developing Effective Hedging
Strategies In a Volatile Market
With increased volatility in global markets, derivatives have come
to the forefront. Management of currency and interest rate risks
have once more been seen as a critical tool in today’s markets for
offering a vehicle for hedging or for providing profit opportunities
in difficult markets. Join this engaging workshop to identify new
strategies for hedging in a volatile economy.
What the workshop will cover:
• Identifying common foreign exchange derivatives to manage
your interest rate swaps
• An overview for structuring and pricing of interest and currency
swaps
• Determining all in cost for issuers and all in return for investors/
lenders
How you will benefit:
• Understand when it is a good time to hedge and when not to
hedge
• Understand the factors affecting pricing and valuation of
derivative positions
• Determine the factors that drive movement in interest rates
commodity and currency prices
Daniel Baird
Head of Corporate Finance
Melbourne University
WORKSHOP D:
06.00pm – 08.30pm
Advancing your Technology Skills
for Efficient Risk Management
What the workshop will cover:
• An overview of what the payments landscape will look like in
five years’ time
• Highlighting new technologies for effective risk management
• Identifying how disruptive technology is affecting core treasury
systems
• How to innovate new technologies into your treasury function
How you will benefit:
• Understand how the online revolution will impact your
organisation
• Develop skills to use new technology to better manage your
risk strategies
• Going into a paperless environment – developing processes to
make the transition
• Exploring the automation of receipts and how this can benefit
your treasury function
Facilitator TBC
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
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08:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND ARRIVAL COFFEE
09:00 Opening Remarks by IQPC Australia and the
Conference Chair
09:10 Opening Keynote Presentation: Identifying The
Macro Drivers of a Dropping Australian Dollar to
Manage Currency Risk
In the past 12 months the value of Australia’s currency
has fallen, which means our export industries are more
competitive, and the industries and consumption reliance
on imports become more expensive. Join this engaging
outlook session with a special focus on the likely drivers of
interest rates and exchange rates.
• The Australian and global economic outlook – base
case and key risk scenarios
• The outlook for monetary across the globe – how
divergent monetary policy trends are likely to impact on
exchange rates
• China – managing their economic transition and the
implications for the rest of us
Brian Parker
Chief Economist
SunSuper
09:50 Panel Session: Optimising Your Cash Flow
Forecasts as a Strategic Business Tool
Well-planned and proactive cash flow management start
with managing your revenue and mitigating financial risk.
To deliver value to your company, and for effective cash
management, optimising your forecasting processes will
enhance your cash-flow success. Join this engaging panel
session to develop strategies to improve your cash flow
forecasting.
• Developing strategies to prepare an effective cash
budget
• How to manage during periods of ‘negative cash flows’
• Identifying techniques for estimating cash flow volatility
and risk
• Improving the accuracy of your forecasts by managing
differing scenarios and pressures
• Maximise the benefits of improved cash generation
Moderator:
Ivan StClair
Director
Treasury Training Services
Panelists:
Greg Bullock
Group Treasury Manager
Wilmar Sugar Australia Pty Ltd
Michael Ewison
Assistant Treasurer, MMG
Fehraz Fallil
GM Treasury and Financial Accounting, ICare
Piero Cabrera
Senior Treasury Advisor, Quadrant Energy
10:30 Solution Provider Thought Leadership Session
*Please contact Fidah.Chowdhury@iqpc.com.au for more
information
11:00 SPEED NETWORKING SESSION
*Facilitated by Conference Chair
A structured interactive session designed to help you
expand your network through one-on-one focused
conversations
11:30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
12.00 Lightening Talk : Managing Financial Risk
In this session, three presenters will highlight their most
pressing challenges in managing financial risk and
how they overcame them, in lightening fashion! Each
presentation will be a maximum of ten minutes, before
the conference breaks into four groups, each led by a
presenter who will continue the discussion in an interactive
roundtable discussion.
Lightening Case 1:
Simon Hicks
Senior Commercial Analyst/Treasury Manager
Melbourne Water
Lightening Case 2:
Anna Sudlow
Commercial and Investor Relations Manager
Tap Oil
Lightening Case 3:
Daniel Baird
Head of Corporate Finance
Melbourne University
12:40 Lightening Talk Roundtables
In this interactive session, delegates will split into three
roundtables based on the lightening talk they found most
appealing to explore in open-minded dialogue which will
be lead by the presenter.
13:10 NETWORKING LUNCH
14:10 Overcoming a Low Interest Rate In Australia to
Manage Your Financial Risk
With increased volatility in global markets, derivatives
have come to the forefront. Management of currency and
interest rate risks have once more been seen as a critical
tool in today’s markets for offering a vehicle for hedging
or for providing profit opportunities in difficult markets.
Identify lessons learnt and new strategies presented by
Simon Hicks for managing interest rate risks.
• Highlighting the challenges and benefits of hedging to
manage your interest rate risk
• An economic outlook of the changing interest rates,
when is a good time to borrow in an uncertain
economic environment?
• Understanding how to manage lower returns due to a
low interest rate
• Hedging interest rates to potentially reduce the cost
volatility of debt financing
Simon Hicks
Senior Commercial Analyst/Treasury Manager
Melbourne Water
DAY ONE
TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
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14:50 Case Study: Managing Price Volatility by Developing
Hedging Strategies
With increased volatility in global markets, derivatives
have come to the forefront of every corporate business.
Management of currency and interest rate risks have
once more been seen as a critical tool in today’s markets
for offering a vehicle for hedging or for providing profit
opportunities in today’s difficult markets. Alice Van Der
Geest will discuss strategies for best hedging practices to
better equip yourself for financial risk.
• Managing commodity risk through market uncertainty
to manage your hedging practices
• Analysing the risks and opportunities for hedging on
foreign-exchange risks
• Discussing best practise for hedging interest-rate risk
including swap structures and fixed pricing
• Differentiating hedging from trading and establishing
the impact on the treasury function
• Identifying FX volatility to decide when and not to
hedge
Alice Van Der Geest
Treasurer, Australian Post
15:30 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
16:00 Case Study: Refinancing Debt Through Strategic
Capital Management Planning
Justin is involved in the establishment and day to day
maintenance of funding and derivative facilities for Scentre
Group’s debt book. This includes sourcing capital from
banks and capital markets to ensure sufficient funding
to continue operating and refinance existing debt as
it matures. Part of the team that put together the $22
billion facility package when Westfield Group completed
its restructure in 2014, consisting of syndicated bridge
facilities followed by take outs in the public debt capital
markets in Australia, Europe and the US. Join this
engaging session to hear Justin speak about Capital
Management strategies at Scentre Group.
• Exploring new and existing capital markets to enhance
your capital management strategies
• Addressing the documentations required to enter
capital markets
• An insight into how global DCM investors view
Australian corporate credit
• Comparing domestic and international markets to
determine your capital funding practices
Justin Chau
Assistant Treasurer
Scentre Group
16:40 Champagne Solutions Clinic
Delegates will break into 4 groups and discuss the
following topics in detail. After 20 minutes of discussion,
each group will have one member present the major
themes and issues that were resolved during the session.
Moderator:
Conference Chair
Session 1: Identifying Best Practices to Manage
Commodity and Currency Risks
Moderator:
Isham Nilar
Treasury Risk Manager
Qantas
Session 2: Developing Strategies for Effective
Management of Treasury Operations, Cash and
Capital Market
Moderator:
Darren Baxter
International Tax and Treasury Manager
Billabong Group
Session 3: Discussing FX Investment and Hedging
Strategies During a Volatility Uptick
Moderator:
Michael Ewison
Assistant Treasurer
MMG
Session 4: Implementing Strategies to Manage an
Effective Investment Portfolio
Moderator:
Arthur Jayasinghe
Head of Treasury and Capital Management
Bupa
17:20 END OF DAY ONE
CLOSING REMARKS FROM CONFERENCE
CHAIRPERSON
17:30 NETWORKING DRINKS FOR ALL ATTENDEES
DAY ONE
TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
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08:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND ARRIVAL COFFEE
09:00 Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair
09:10 Opening Keynote: The Key Regulation Changes and
the Impact on Your Organisation
Since the financial crisis and economic changes,
regulations have become stricter than ever before,
making it harder for corporate treasurers to fund and
manage their financial risks. The regulations are changing
consistently, making it difficult to determine the impact on
the organisation and treasury activities. Join this engaging
session by Kevin Davis who will focus on the broad picture
of how on going regulatory changes are likely to affect
funding options, liquidity management, risk management.
• Discussing how the new regulations will impact your
funding options and liquidity management
• Understanding how the new derivative reporting
requirements will impact your treasury functions
• Overcoming funding difficulties with global banks that
are regulated differently
• Determining changes in Basel 3 and how this will affect
organisations who are trying to fund
Kevin Davis
Professor of Finance
University of Melbourne
09:50 Solution Provider Thought Leadership Session
*Please contact Fidah.Chowdhury@iqpc.com.au for more
information
10:30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
11:00 Panel Session: Identifying Sources of Alternative
Funding to Diversify Financial Risks
Due to market risk and an increase in volatility, corporates
are looking for new ways of funding to raise capital and
avoid being reliant on bank liquidity. This session will
identify opportunities and look to overcome challenges
for new and existing markets to diversity your sources of
funding and innovate your financial risk strategies.
• Evaluating the risks and opportunities involved in
funding internationally and domestically
• Addressing the benefits of multi-currency debt
management
• An insight into merging into the Asian market for
alternative investors
• Discussing types of debt funding trends - secured
vs unsecured, bonds, bi-lateral facilities, sydnucated
facilities
Moderator:
Conference Chair
Panelists:
Vincent Chin
Head of Treasury, Goodman
Anna Sudlow
Commercial and Investor Relations Manager, Tap Oil
Stephen Harper
GM Treasury Investor Relations, Pact Group
11:40 Developing a Working Relationship with Your Banker
to Ensure Adequate Funding
Corporate treasurers’ relationships with their banks are
changing. More advanced solutions are needed that
enable treasurers’ to diversify their counterparty risk,
maintain visibility over their worldwide cash and manage
liquidity in real time. A good working relationship is needed
to manage daily operations, mitigate risks, minimise
transaction costs and maximise revenue. Join this
engaging session by Brad Burns who will speak on the
importance of managing a working relationship with your
banker.
• Determining the banking and investor relationship by
addressing key areas of focus
• Analysing benefits of a few key relationships to manage
leverage, or numerous banks to use competition as a
key playing field
• Understanding how companies gain a favourable
mindset for banks
• Analysing funding structures – secured/unsecured
• Identifying types of debt funding, decided or bi-lateral
facilities
Brad Burns
Treasurer
Hastings Deering Ltd
12:20 NETWORKING LUNCH
13:20 Panel Session: Optimising Your Cash and Liquidity
Management through Efficient Processes
Effective cash and liquidity management is crucial to
corporate treasury practices. Developing strategies within
the organisation to optimise internal resources continues
to prove to be a successful initiative in reducing the
dependency on external funding and counter market
challenges.
• Leveraging case scenarios to incorporate a cash-flow
based liquidity plan
• Managing global bank accounts through forecasting
global cash-flows
• Optimising overall working capital management to
achieve efficient cash flow forecasting
• Identifying automated processes to achieve true global
visibility of cash and forecasting objectives
Moderator:
Conference Chair
Panelists:
Justin Chau
Assistant Treasurer, Scentre Group
Fehraz Fallil
GM Treasury and Financial Accounting, ICare
Michael Ewison
Assistant Treasurer, MMG
Sushma Rao
Director of Treasury Management, NSW Treasury
DAY TWO
WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
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14.00 Developing the Role of a Treasurer to Become a
Strategic and Efficient Business Partner
The role of the treasurer had changed substantially and
there is increased importance of traditional treasury
activities, while at the same time treasurers are being
asked to play a more strategic role in corporate
activities such as capital allocation. All this is in reaction
to increased focus by corporate leaders and Boards
of Directors on optimizing the use of cash on their
companies’ balance sheets and on ensuring holistic
risk management. Join this engaging session by Falvio
Barbuio who will better equip you with the skills to
become a strategic and more effective Treasury Leader.
• Developing strategies to build a successful treasury
department
• Strengthening a working relationship with the CFO to
build a strong finance department
• Identifying key skills for risk management development
• Addressing the evolution of the finance function to
become a better leader within your organisation
Fulvio Barbuio
Head Corporate Treasury and Risk
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
14:40 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
15:10 Panel Discussion: Managing Treasury
Transformation - Discussing the Changing Role of
the Treasurer to Develop New Skills and Enhance
your Leadership Skills
The role of treasury has grown and is now is a key finance
function that is vital to the financial health and success
of every business. A successful Treasurer must be more
strategic and efficient to be able to adapt to economic
changes and undertake effective risk management.
Join this workshop to gain the skills you need to adapt
efficiently within todays financial markets and substantially
add value to your organisation
• Determining the evolving role of the Treasurer to
highlight key areas of focus
• Addressing core skills required to become a successful
and efficient Treasurer
• Discussing the key challenges faced with treasurers to
overcome and apply opportunities within your role
• Questioning the treasurers perspective on sourcing,
logistics, payments, and liquidity
Moderator:
Conference Chair
Panelists:
Fehraz Fallil
GM Treasury and Financial Accounting, ICare
Grant Priest
General Manager - Treasury Finance Risks
NBN Australia
Alice Van Der Geest
Treasurer, Australian Post
Stephen Harper
GM Treasury Investor Relations, Pact Group
15:50 Case Study: Lessons Learnt from a Volatile Market
and a Drop in Commodity Prices
Both foreign exchange and commodity prices have
witnessed dramatic increases in market volatility, creating
an increased requirement for corporate treasurers to
ensure that these risks are being effectively managed.
Anna Sudlow, commercial and investor relations manager
for Tap Oil, will discuss lessons learnt from a corporate
perspective on managing a fall in commodity prices.
• Determining the impact of falling commodity prices on
your organisation’s cashflows
• Identifying and evaluating alternative sources of funding
• Developing strategies to respond to market volatility
Anna Sudlow
Commercial and Investor Relations Manager
Tap Oil
16:30 CLOSING REMARKS FROM CONFERENCE
CHAIRPERSON
16:40 MAIN CONFERENCE CLOSE
DAY TWO
WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016