2015 Liquidity Risk Survey

Survey goal

To shed light on treasury departments’ efforts to mitigate liquidity risk in short-term cash investment, debt and forecasting practices and changes over time.

What we’ve learned in 2015

• Treasury and financial professionals appear to have begun to control bank exposures
  • Decrease in bank deposits
• Survey results indicate while Money Fund usage is down Treasurers indicate no clear plans yet in anticipation of money fund reform
• Firms seem to have increased the pace at which they negotiate and renegotiate credit facilities and to have structured debt and credit facilities with multiple maturity dates
• Investment policy latitude continues to expand in an environment of continued investment supply contraction
• Ongoing calibration of investment policies
  • 61% of firms have updated their investment policy within the past two years
  • More firms are setting limits for uninsured bank deposits
• Organizations do not appear to have formal counterparty risk exposure policies or frameworks in place
  • Apparent difficulties aggregating, analyzing and monitoring counterparty exposure

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