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Report on
Himanshu Mehta
MMS 2010-12
M1028
FINANCE
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Annexure - D
Executive Summary
Introduction
Objectives of the Study
Research Methodology
Treasury Management - Overview
Functions of Treasury Management in Banks
Organizational Structure of Treasury Department
Objectives of Treasury Management
Elements of Treasury Management
Treasury Products and Services
Types of Risks associated with Treasury Management
RBI Guidelines
Future Scope/Challenges in Treasury Management
Role of IT in Treasury Management
State Bank of India Case Study
Overall Finding of the Study
Conclusion
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The project is about Treasury management operations in banks. Treasury management
is the management of an organizations liquidity to ensure that the right amount of
cash resources are available in the right place in the right currency and at the right
time in such a way as to maximize the return on surplus funds, minimize the
financing cost of the business, and control interest rate risk and currency exposure to
an acceptable level.
This project covers functions of treasury management operations in banks,
organizational structure of treasury, objectives and functions of treasurer which plays
an important role in banks.
The project also involves the elements in treasury management like cash reserve ratio,
statutory liquidity ratio, dates government securities, etc. which should be properly
functioned by treasurer.
The project includes nature of treasury assets and liabilities and treasury products &
services which plays an important role in very banks.
The project deals with risk involved in these treasury assets and liabilities and their
mitigation. Risks are of two types operational risk & financial risk. The project also
includes risk management guidelines which are laid down by RBI.
The project covers the future scope / challenges in treasury management, role of
information technology in treasury management and a study on SBIs treasury.
INTRODUCTION
In general terms and from the perspective of commercial banking, treasury refers to
the fund and revenue at the possession of the bank and day-to-day management of the
same. Idle funds are usually source of loss, real or opportune, and, thereby need to be
managed, invested, and deployed with intent to improve profitability. There is no
profit or reward without attendant risk. Thus treasury operations seek to maximize
profit and earning by investing available funds at an acceptable level of risks. Returns
and risks both need to be managed. If we examine the balance sheets of Commercial
Banks (Public Sector Banks, typically), we find investment/deposit ratio has by far
overtaken credit/deposit ratio. Interest income from investments has overtaken interest
income from loans/advances. The special feature of such bloated portfolio is that more
than 85% of it is invested in government securities.
The reasons for such developments appear to be as under:
Poor credit off-take coupled with high increase in NPAs.
inventory
The income flow from investment assets is real compared to that of loan-assets, as the
latter is size ably a book-entry.
Definition:
Treasury management is the management of an organizations liquidity to ensure that
the right amount of cash resources are available in the right place in the right currency
and at the right time in such a way as to maximize the return on surplus funds,
minimize the financing cost of the business, and control interest rate risk and currency
exposure to an acceptable level.
In other words,Treasury management (or treasury operations) includes management
of an enterprise' holdings in and trading in government and corporate bonds,
Integrated Treasury:
We see integration of segmented financial markets- money market, debt and capital
market and forex market, etc., at the macro level and integration of treasury
operations at the operational level of banks. The term integration means merger or
centralization or consolidation. The reforms that were initiated in 90s made domestic
markets closely linked to global markets. The domestic market is integration with
global market at the micro level, which has raised the need for integration of micro
level units. Relaxation of regulations has almost integrated different segments of
financial markets- debt market, money market, capital market, forex market, etc.,
which enabled free flow of money from one market to another. Increased demands
from their clients in tandem with high competition forced banks to operate in all these
markets. Once capital account convertibility is fully materialized, the markets will
become fully integrated.
To have a broader view on nature of treasury assets & liabilities and to know
what are their products and services involved in Treasury Management.
To know what are the RBI guidelines formulated for Treasury Management.
To have an in-depth knowledge of how SBI manages its treasury as SBI is the
major contributors in money and forex market.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Gathering primary data through meeting key officials from the related area of
Treasury Management, collecting view points from them to arrive at meaningful
conclusion.
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Head of Treasury
Chief Dealer
Head of Settlements
Head of Accounting
Mkt.
Monitoring and Reporting
Intelligence
Research and analysis
ManagerFunds/Reserve
Accounts/ Audit/Reporting
Manager-SettlementsManager
Documentation Settlements Monitoring
Custodian
The three departments should be compartmentalized and they act independently. The
heads of each section reports directly to the Head of the Treasury. A treasury can have
more functional desk depending on the size and structure of the bank, and activities
undertaken by the bank. For example, the treasury may have separate
individuals/managers for monitoring funds movement, for monitoring of risks,
developing and marketing innovative instruments/products.
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Till recently, a few of the domestic players used to trade in these securities
with a majority investing in these instruments for the full term. This has been
changing of late, with a good number of banks setting up active treasuries to trade
in these securities. Perhaps the most liquid of the long term instruments, liquidity
in gilts is also aided by the primary dealer network set up by RBI and RBI's own
open market operations.
1. Money Market Operations: The bank engages into a number of instruments that
are available in the Indian money market for the purpose of enhancing liquidity as
well as profitability. Some of these instruments are as follows:
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D. Certificates of Deposits
The scheduled commercial banks have been permitted to issue certificate of
deposit without any regulation on interest rates. This is also a money market
instrument and unlike a fixed deposit receipt, it is a negotiable instrument and
hence it offers maximum liquidity. As such, it has secondary market too. Since
the denomination is very high, it is suitable to mainly institutional investors and
companies.
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FUNCTIONS OF A TREASUER
The Treasury in the finance department Deals with the liquid assets; since the
treasurer is the head of the treasury, he has a major responsibility of being a custodian
of cash and other liquid assets. The other functions are:
(a) Funding: The treasurer has the responsibility of exploring and selecting best
source of finance for funding long-and short term cash requirements of the
business. While determining the best source of finance, the treasurer must take
various matters into consideration like debt structure of the organization, structure
of the debt portfolio, and advantages and shortcoming of short-and long term
financing, etc.
(b) Working Capital Management: The goal of the working capital management is
to maintain good balance between current assets and liabilities as per the
requirements of the business. Since cash surplus as well as cash deficit is not
recommendable for and organization, the treasurer has the responsibility to
maintain an optimum cash level. A good working capital management maximizes
the liquidity and profitability of the organization.
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Individual investors,
Institutional investors,
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corporate/treasury
actions/decisions
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Liability Products/Instruments
CD Issues
B.
Foreign Exchange
1. Interbank
Spot Currencies
Cash
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currency for
Foreign Currency Placements, Investments and Borrowings (in accordance with RBI
guidelines)
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C.
Derivatives
Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs)
Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs)
Interest Rate Options
Currency Options
D.
Certain corporate assets such as investments in subsidiaries and joint ventures are
reckoned as treasury assets although they are not traded and are permanent in nature.
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the
price
risk.
2. Forward Rate Agreement (FRA): An FRA is an agreement between the Bank and
a Customer to pay or receive the difference (called settlement money) between an
agreed fixed rate (FRA rate) and the interest rate prevailing on stipulated future date
(the fixing date) based on a notional amount for an agreed period (the contract
period). In short, this is a contract whereby interest rate is fixed now for a future
period. The basic purpose of the FRA is to hedge the interest rate risk.
For example, if a borrower is going to borrow FC loan for 6 months at LIBOR rate
after 3 months, he can buy an FRA whereby he can fix interest
rate
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loan.
3. Interest Rate Swap(IRS) : It is a financial transaction in which two counterparties
agree to exchange streams of cash flows throughout the life of contract in which one
party pays a fixed interest rate on a notional principal and the other pays a floating
rate on the same sum. The basic purpose of IRS is to hedge the interest rate risk of
constituents and enable them to structure the asset/ liability profile best suited to their
respective cash flows.
4. Currency Swap: It is an agreement between two parties to exchange obligations in
different currencies at the beginning, during the tenure and at the end of the
transaction. At the start, initial principal is exchanged, though not obligatory. Periodic
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funding.
5. Option: It is a contract between the bank and its customers in which the customer
has the right to buy/sell a specified amount of underlying asset at fixed price within a
specific period of time, but has no obligation to do so. In this contract, the customer
has to pay specified amount upfront to the counterparty which is known as premium.
This is in contrast of the forward contract in which both parties
have
binding
contract.
This is a facility offered to customers to enable them to book Forward
Contracts in Cross Currencies at a target rate or price. This facility helps the customer
to en cash the currency movements in late European market, New York market and
early Asian market. The minimum amount of the contract is 250,000/- in respective
base currencies (for e.g. USD, EUR & GBP).
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1. Operational Risk: This covers the entire gamut of the transaction cycle from
dealing to custody. Operational risk can again be divided into those arising from:
Mitigation
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Dealers must operate strictly within the single deal, portfolio and prudential
limits set for the instrument and counterparty. Stop loss and risk norms of
duration and value at risk should be adhered to all times.
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risks:
Better credit appraisal. Careful analysis of cash flows of the business before
investing.
Risk pricing
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For supporting the above, it is necessary to have adequate data gathering systems in
place to measure currency wise exposures and their maturities.
The following determine the forex risk exposure of the bank:
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Open Positions
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Settlement Risk;
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Country Risk;
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Value-at-Risk;
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Call Borrowing/Lending
Core Deposits vis--vis Core Assets, i.e., CRR, SLR and Loans
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Deals are backed by deal slips, and office memos containing approvals by
competent authority.
A bank will fully comply with all the RBIs guidelines, regulations and rules
governing the investment portfolio.
m) The RBI has now finalized norms for risk-based internal audit system from the
first quarter of 2003.
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e. Trade Specialist
The Trade Specialist provides support to Investment Managers and Clients
through timely and accurate processing of trade instructions and related transactions.
The varieties of trade instructions that require daily processing include global and
domestic securities, derivatives, foreign exchange transactions and transfer of
currency between accounts. They will maintain and strengthen the accounts
relationship while minimizing risk and maximizing profitability. They= will assist in
the investment of cash and the research of currency balances, idle and overdrawn
balance and the resolution of trade problems to ensure accurate client statements.
T-bills
Call/Notice/Term Money
Commercial Paper
Certificates of Deposit
Repos
Membership of the NDS is open to all institutions which are members of INFINET
and have Subsidiary General Ledger (SGL) accounts with the RBI. At present, this
covers the following:
Banks
Financial Institutions
Primary Dealers
Insurance Companies
Mutual Funds
Banks and Primary Dealers are obliged to become members of the NDS. NDS
facilitates electronic submission of bids/application by members for Primary issuance
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Straight-through-processing (STP)
STP is latest technological wave to hit financial markets. This electronic system
enables trading, documentation, clearing, settlement, and custody on a single, end-toend hardware and software platform.
This is a natural extension of electronic trading whereby individual traders, once
approved and authorized by the buyer and seller, are settled automatically by the
system through its connectivity with a Clearing House. Buyers receive securities in
their custodial accounts and sellers receive funds.
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Electronic Form
a. Settlement: Post-approval of a deal, the system suo motu, credits and debits the
respective cash and securities accounts of the buyer and seller as required. In G-Secs,
the NDS enables this through the intermediation of the CCIL.
Forex deals in USD/INR and cross-currencies, i.e., USD/JPY, Euro/USD, GBP/USD,
etc., are also settled electronically through CCIL or SWIFT, through transfers of funds
from and to Nostro accounts.
b. Custody: Electronic records of ownership of securities are held by DPS. Such
securities do not exist in physical form. The SGL depository of the RBI maintains
custody and ownership of SLR securities in electronic form.
c. Conversion of Physical Securities to Demat: The RBI and SEBI have now made it
mandatory for almost all securities to be in demat, i.e., electronic record of ownership
and transactions in securities, maintained with a depository participant (DP), which, in
turn, maintains an account with the apex depository (NSDL,CDSL, etc.)
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enable efficient interest risk management and optimize the cost of funds. They can
also be customized in terms of tenors and liquidity options.
SBI invests in these instruments issued by your company, thus providing you a
dynamic substitute for traditional credit options. The Rupee Treasury handles the
banks domestic investments.
Trading
The banks trading operations are unmatched in size and value in the domestic
market and cover government securities, corporate bonds, call money and other
instruments. SBI is the biggest lender in call.
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management of liquidity, maturity profiles of assets and liabilities and interest rate
risks at the foreign offices.
bank is one of the principal activities of TMG. The main objectives of investment
operations at our foreign offices, apart from compliance with the regulatory
requirements of the host country, are (a) safety of the funds invested, (b) optimization
of profits from investment operations and (c) maintenance of liquidity. Investment
operations are conducted in accordance with the investment policy for foreign offices
formulated by TMG.
The activities include appraisal of the performance of the foreign offices broad
parameters such as income earned from investment operations, composition and size
of the portfolio, performance vis--vis the budgeted targets and the market value of
the portfolio.
done with the objective of optimizing of returns while managing the attendant risks.
Forex and Interest rate (Foreign Currency) derivatives: TMG also plays an
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Investment returns
The team manning the PMS Section consists of highly experienced officers of
SBI, who have the required depth of knowledge to handle large investment portfolios
and address the concern of large investors. The capabilities of the team range from
Investment Management and Custody to Information Reporting.
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The project has given an insight into the various aspects of treasury management
namely
Meaning and definition of treasury management.
Different functions of treasury departments in banks like reserve management&
investment, liquidity & fund management, assets liability management, etc.
Organisational structure & objective of treasury management
Element of treasury management and functions of treasurer in these elements.
Nature of treasury assets and liabilities, treasury products and services, risk associated
in treasury, their mitigation and RBI guidelines for risk management.
Future scope in treasury management and role of information technology in treasury
management.
SBI,s treasury. SBI is the first treasury operator.
SBI bank has an integrated treasury management; they dont have any competitors as
such because it is well maintained and functioned.
SBI has their own procedure for treasury management which is followed very well by
them. Percentage of income is not disclosed by them to any one. SBI do follow RBI
guidelines for treasury management properly which they think that it is well
formulated.
Risk involved in treasury management for SBI is the same like operational risk and
financial risk and they aim for a well integrated and innovative management of
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Time allotted for making project is very limited. As study is restricted only to
a specific area. If time permits then there would be a vast scope of study of different
organizational treasury management or having a comparative study between two
banks.
Study allotted has a page constraint. The information required for in-depth
Treasury management has awareness among the banking sector only which
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CONCLUSION
Historically, the treasury operations were oriented more toward compliance of
the regulatory prescriptions in terms of cash reserve ratio and statutory liquidity ratio.
Ensuring that there are no defaults in central bank account and that the borrowings are
minimal were the focal issues addressed to. With the globalization process, the role of
treasury has undergone a sea change and it is a major profit center for better
performing banks.
Treasury operations have become more significant and complex today than
what it was few years back. The role played by the technology and the rapid changes
in the financial sector has brought in more flexibility in the funds deployment by
banks. The dynamism with which the Treasury Market moves needs to be fully
understood which is integrated in the Banks.
The role of information technology is pivotal particularly because huge funds
are handled by comparatively a few people in each bank. Unless informational
expectations are clarified and met with, treasury operations can seldom be successful
in terms of revenue acceleration.
To sum up, the paradigm shift in the risk exposure levels of the financial
institutions, has definitely led to treasury management assuming a center stage.
Undoubtedly all financial institutions need to perform treasury management. But to
have a proper treasury management function in place, a thorough understanding of the
various operations on its assets/ liabilities becomes essential. Such an understanding
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Transformation Of Indian Banks With Information Technology
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Treasury Management
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INTERNET
www.indiainfoline.com
www.investopedia.com
www.treasury-management.com.
www.financialexpress.com
www.google.com
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