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CONTENTS
WHAT IS A TREASURY? ........................................................................................................................... 10
Treasury ....................................................................................................................................................... 10
The Money Market desk ............................................................................................................................... 10
The FX Desk ................................................................................................................................................... 11
The Equity Desk ............................................................................................................................................. 11
The Specialized Desks ................................................................................................................................... 11
What do treasuries really do? ....................................................................................................................... 12
How is a corporate treasury different from a bank treasury? ....................................................................... 12
THE TREASURY FUNCTION ....................................................................................................................... 13
1. Trade Flows (FX desk)............................................................................................................................. 13
2. The Treasury Function Operations ......................................................................................................... 13
i. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 13
ii. Front Office Function ......................................................................................................................... 13
a. User Roles ............................................................................................................................... 14
b. Money Market Desk Activities................................................................................................ 14
c. Foreign Exchange Desk Activities ........................................................................................... 15
d. Capital Market (CM) Desk Activities ....................................................................................... 15
iii. Middle Office Function ...................................................................................................................... 16
a. User Roles ............................................................................................................................... 16
b. Activities ................................................................................................................................. 16
iv. Back Office Function .......................................................................................................................... 17
a. User Roles ............................................................................................................................... 17
b. Activities ................................................................................................................................. 17
c. Basic Treasury Back Office Tasks ............................................................................................ 18
3. Related Terminologies ........................................................................................................................... 24
i. Four eyes ........................................................................................................................................... 24
a. Ticket Approval ....................................................................................................................... 24
b. Ticket Verification ................................................................................................................... 24
c. Ticket Authorization ............................................................................................................... 24
ii. Confirmation ...................................................................................................................................... 24
a. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) .............................. 25
iii. Settlement ......................................................................................................................................... 25
a. Delivery versus payment (DVP) .............................................................................................. 26
iv. Reconciliation .................................................................................................................................... 26
a. Broker Reconciliation ............................................................................................................. 26
b. Securities Reconciliation ......................................................................................................... 27
v. Accounting ......................................................................................................................................... 27
vi. Price discovery ................................................................................................................................... 28
vii. Proprietary Trading ............................................................................................................................ 28
viii. Treasury Risks .................................................................................................................................... 29
a. Credit Risk ............................................................................................................................... 29
b. Market Risk ............................................................................................................................. 29
c. Operational Risk ..................................................................................................................... 29
4. Treasury Markets ................................................................................................................................... 30
i. Foreign Exchange Market .................................................................................................................. 30
a. FX Ready/ Forward/ Split ........................................................................................................ 30
b. FX Swap .................................................................................................................................. 31
c. FX Placements/ Borrowings .................................................................................................... 31
d. FX Miscellaneous .................................................................................................................... 32
e. FX TMU – Import/ Export/ Remittance/ Encashment ............................................................ 32
f. FX TMU – Foreign Bill Purchase (Bill Discounting) .................................................................. 33
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B IBLIOGRAPHY
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009
The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, Frank J. Fabozzi, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005
Risk Management and Financial Institutions, John C. Hull, Low Price Edition, Pearson Education,
Inc., 2007
Exotic Equity Derivatives Manual, Salomon Smith Barney, August 1998
Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk- The Value at Risk Approach, Linda Allen, Jacob
Boudoukh and Anthony Saunders, Blackwell Publishing, 2004
Beyond Value at Risk, The New Science of Risk Management, Kevin Dowd, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
Higher-Order Simulations: Strategic Investment Under Model-Induced Price Patterns, Gilbert Peffer
and Bàrbara Llacay, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 10, no. 2, 6
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/2/6.html>, 2007
VaR Applications: Setting VaR-based Limits, Carlos Blanco and Sally Blomstrom, Financial
Engineering Associates, Inc., May 1999
Commonly Used Market Risk Limits, Guidelines on Risk Management of Derivatives and other
traded instruments, Annex D
Quantitative Finance, Second Edition, Paul Wilmott, John Wiley&Sons, Ltd., 2006
Liquidity Risk Management, Leonard M. Martz, 2007
Back Office and Beyond- A guide to procedures, settlements and risk in financial markets, Mervin J.
King, Harriman House Ltd., 1999
Mastering Treasury Office Operations- Denis Nolan & Gordon Amos, FT Prentice Hall, 2001
Valuation of interest-sensitive financial instruments, Babbel David F., SOA Monograph M-FI196-1,
1996
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L IST OF F IGURES
Figure 1: Treasury Desks ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Figure 2: Money Market Desk ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Figure 3: FX Desk............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Figure 4: Equity Desk ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 5: Specialized Desks ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Figure 6: Flow chart for Treasury Function .................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 7: Foreign Currency Asset and Liability balances import functionality on a Treasury system ............................................................................. 18
Figure 8: Foreign Currency Asset and Liability balances input screen on a Treasury system ......................................................................................... 19
Figure 9: Day Start and End functionality on a Treasury system ................................................................................................................................... 19
Figure 10: Five core themes for approaching TMU customers ...................................................................................................................................... 38
Figure 11: WTI price graph ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 39
Figure 12: Price and trailing volatility for WTI ................................................................................................................................................................ 41
Figure 13: Gold Price Model – Actual and Simulated Prices ........................................................................................................................................... 42
Figure 14: Gold WTI Ratio .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 43
Figure 15: Gold-WTI with USD/CHF................................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Figure 16: Product wise payoffs ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
Figure 17: Potential Future Exposure over life of contract ............................................................................................................................................ 46
Figure 18: Core Treasury Products and Exposure Estimation ........................................................................................................................................ 47
Figure 19: Difference between FX Forward Sale and Purchase contract and Bill Discounting ....................................................................................... 47
Figure 20: TMU customer reactions ............................................................................................................................................................................... 48
Figure 21: Payoff Profile Tool ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
Figure 22: Pay off profile for a long forward contract .................................................................................................................................................... 50
Figure 23: Payoff profile for a long call option ............................................................................................................................................................... 51
Figure 24: Treasury strategies and structures ................................................................................................................................................................ 51
Figure 25: Pay off profile for a short call option ............................................................................................................................................................. 52
Figure 26: Payoff profile for a combination of a short call and long call ........................................................................................................................ 53
Figure 27: Payoff profiles for forwards & futures contracts ........................................................................................................................................... 58
Figure 28: Payoff profiles for option contracts .............................................................................................................................................................. 58
Figure 29: Quadrant IV - Payoff profiles for a long forward contract ............................................................................................................................. 59
Figure 30: Payoff profile for a long forward contract ..................................................................................................................................................... 59
Figure 31: Payoff profile for underlying security ............................................................................................................................................................ 60
Figure 32: Payoff profile for the holder of a call option ................................................................................................................................................. 60
Figure 33: Payoff profile for the writer of a call option .................................................................................................................................................. 61
Figure 34: Payoff profile for the holder of a put option ................................................................................................................................................. 61
Figure 35: Payoff profile for the writer of a put option .................................................................................................................................................. 62
Figure 36: Building blocks for synthetic configurations.................................................................................................................................................. 62
Figure 37: Synthetic forward contract creations ............................................................................................................................................................ 62
Figure 38: Comparative payoff profiles for calls & forwards .......................................................................................................................................... 63
Figure 39: Comparative payoff profiles for calls, puts & forwards ................................................................................................................................. 63
Figure 40: Payoff profile for a synthetic long forward ................................................................................................................................................... 64
Figure 41: Revised payoff profile for a synthetic long forward ...................................................................................................................................... 64
Figure 42: Template for evaluating derivatives .............................................................................................................................................................. 66
Figure 43: Comparative look at derivatives.................................................................................................................................................................... 66
Figure 44: Payoff to the buyer & seller of a call option .................................................................................................................................................. 68
Figure 45: Payoff to the buyer & seller of a put option .................................................................................................................................................. 68
Figure 46: Binomial tree - prices of the underlying asset ............................................................................................................................................... 71
Figure 47: Using a Binomial tree to calculate the price of an American Call Option ...................................................................................................... 72
Figure 48: Payoffs for the buyer & seller of a forward contract ..................................................................................................................................... 73
Figure 49: Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swap .................................................................................................................................................................... 75
Figure 50: Interest Rate Cap .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 78
Figure 51: Interest Rate Floor ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 78
Figure 52: Sample trade ticket for a Cap/ Floor ............................................................................................................................................................. 79
Figure 53: Sample term sheet for a double barrier ........................................................................................................................................................ 80
Figure 54: Sample term sheet for a look back swap....................................................................................................................................................... 81
Figure 55: Sample term sheet for a basket option ......................................................................................................................................................... 82
Figure 56: Payoffs for the buyer of a call & seller of a put i.e. of a synthetic forward contract ..................................................................................... 82
Figure 57: Sample term sheet for an amortizing swap................................................................................................................................................... 85
Figure 58: Sample term sheet for a variance swap ........................................................................................................................................................ 86
Figure 59: Term sheet for an Equity Linked Note ........................................................................................................................................................... 90
Figure 60: Key elements of a Capital Protected Note term sheet .................................................................................................................................. 90
Figure 61: Term sheet for a Commodity Linked Note .................................................................................................................................................... 91
Figure 62: Term sheet for a Range Accrual Option ........................................................................................................................................................ 92
Figure 63: Sample Trade Tickets for Switchables ........................................................................................................................................................... 92
Figure 64: Sample Trade Ticket for an IRD swap ............................................................................................................................................................ 93
Figure 65: Sample Trade Ticket for an IRD note ............................................................................................................................................................. 93
Figure 66: Sample Trade Ticket for a Quanto ................................................................................................................................................................. 93
Figure 67: Sample Term Sheet for a Cumulative Cap ..................................................................................................................................................... 94
Figure 68: Sample Trade Tickets for Steepener Notes ................................................................................................................................................... 95
Figure 69: Sample Trade Ticket for an inverted curve instrument ................................................................................................................................. 95
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Figure 70: Sample Trade Ticket for a single range step up ............................................................................................................................................. 96
Figure 71: Sample Trade Ticket for a tiered range ......................................................................................................................................................... 96
Figure 72: Sample Trade Ticket for a range note ........................................................................................................................................................... 96
Figure 73: Structure of a Credit Default Swap ................................................................................................................................................................ 97
Figure 74: Sample Term Sheet for a Credit Default Swap .............................................................................................................................................. 98
Figure 75: Structure of a Total Return Swap .................................................................................................................................................................. 99
Figure 76: Sample Term sheet of a Total Return Swap .................................................................................................................................................. 99
Figure 77: Sample Term sheet of a Collateralized Debt Obligation .............................................................................................................................. 100
Figure 78: Forward price of a security with no income ................................................................................................................................................ 102
Figure 79: Forward price of a security with known cash income ................................................................................................................................. 103
Figure 80: Forward price of a security with known dividend yield ............................................................................................................................... 103
Figure 81: Spot Rates and Forward Rates –time line ................................................................................................................................................... 104
Figure 82: Deriving forward rates from spot rates ....................................................................................................................................................... 105
Figure 83: Deriving spot rates from forward rates –method 1..................................................................................................................................... 106
Figure 84: Calculating accumulation factors ................................................................................................................................................................ 106
Figure 85: Deriving spot rates from forward rates –method 2..................................................................................................................................... 107
Figure 86: Iterations for determining YTM using the trial and error process ............................................................................................................... 109
Figure 87: Determining YTM using EXCEL’s Goal Seek functionality – setting up the input and out cells .................................................................... 109
Figure 88: Determining YTM using EXCEL’s Goal Seek functionality – selecting the Goal Seek function ..................................................................... 109
Figure 89: Determining YTM using EXCEL’s Goal Seek functionality – defining the values in the Goal Seek pop-up window ...................................... 110
Figure 90: Determining YTM using EXCEL’s Goal Seek functionality – solving for the YTM.......................................................................................... 110
Figure 91: Value of an FRA (zero coupon rate calculated on a discrete basis) ............................................................................................................. 111
Figure 92: Value of an FRA (zero coupon rate calculated on a continuous basis) ........................................................................................................ 112
Figure 93: FX rates (interest rates compounded on a discrete basis) .......................................................................................................................... 113
Figure 94: FX rates (interest rates compounded on a continuous basis) ..................................................................................................................... 114
Figure 95: Value of a long forward contract (continuous) ........................................................................................................................................... 115
Figure 96: Value of a long forward contract (discrete)................................................................................................................................................. 115
Figure 97: Value of a long forward contract (continuous) which provides a known income ....................................................................................... 116
Figure 98: Value of a long forward contract (continuous) which provides a known yield ............................................................................................ 117
Figure 99: Value of a long forward foreign currency contract ..................................................................................................................................... 117
Figure 100: Price-yield relationship ............................................................................................................................................................................. 121
Figure 101: Impact of convexity ................................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Figure 102: PKRV rates ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 123
Figure 103: Calculated return series ............................................................................................................................................................................ 124
Figure 104: Days to maturity/ reset ............................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Figure 105: Weights of each asset/ liability ................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Figure 106: Weighted average return series ................................................................................................................................................................ 125
Figure 107: Daily volatility and holding VaR ................................................................................................................................................................. 125
Figure 108: Weighted average YTM for each asset in the fixed income bond category .............................................................................................. 126
Figure 109: Weighted average YTM for assets ............................................................................................................................................................. 126
Figure 110: Holding VaR, YTM and Rate Shocks for Asset and Liability ........................................................................................................................ 127
Figure 111: Weighted average Duration for each asset in the fixed income bond category ........................................................................................ 127
Figure 112: Weighted average Duration for interest sensitive assets .......................................................................................................................... 128
Figure 113: Fall in Market Value of Equity ................................................................................................................................................................... 128
Figure 114: PKRV rates ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Figure 115: Calculated return series ............................................................................................................................................................................ 129
Figure 116: Sample on and off balance sheet item ...................................................................................................................................................... 130
Figure 117: Expected Cash flow and Days to Maturity ................................................................................................................................................. 130
Figure 118: Expected Cash flows slotted into rate buckets as per their DTM .............................................................................................................. 130
Figure 119: Calculation of weights for each sub-bucket .............................................................................................................................................. 131
Figure 120: Weighted average return series ................................................................................................................................................................ 132
Figure 121: Rate VaR.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 132
Figure 122: Weighted average base rate ..................................................................................................................................................................... 133
Figure 123: Weighted average DTM ............................................................................................................................................................................ 133
Figure 124: On-balance sheet and cumulative gaps .................................................................................................................................................... 134
Figure 125: Earning at Risk ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 134
Figure 126: Buckets definition ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 135
Figure 127: Determination of future instalments due and time to receipt/ payment ................................................................................................. 136
Figure 128: Slotting cash flows into appropriate buckets based on time to receipt/ payment .................................................................................... 136
Figure 129: Cost to close .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 137
Figure 130: Rate Sensitive Gap .................................................................................................................................................................................... 139
Figure 131: Term sheet for coupon bearing instrument .............................................................................................................................................. 141
Figure 132: Limit monitoring and review process ........................................................................................................................................................ 151
Figure 133: Risk reporting process ............................................................................................................................................................................... 152
Figure 134: Capital Loss calculation example ............................................................................................................................................................... 153
Figure 135: Allocation of actual stop loss limits by lines of investment ....................................................................................................................... 153
Figure 136: Example of slippage .................................................................................................................................................................................. 154
Figure 137: Odds, Confidence Levels & Limits ............................................................................................................................................................. 155
Figure 138: Example - Setting VaR limits for sub portfolios ......................................................................................................................................... 156
Figure 139: Determination of multiple for setting an upper bound on VaR limit......................................................................................................... 156
Figure 140: Setting Duration & Convexity limits .......................................................................................................................................................... 157
Figure 141: Setting PVBP limits .................................................................................................................................................................................... 157
Figure 142: Limits applicable to Money Market Products ............................................................................................................................................ 162
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Figure 216: Functionality for changing Value field settings -3 ..................................................................................................................................... 209
Figure 217: Updated values field after value field setting is changed .......................................................................................................................... 209
Figure 218: Maturity profile versus size concentration by amount and number ......................................................................................................... 210
Figure 219: Selecting data fields for displaying size and cost ....................................................................................................................................... 212
Figure 220: Pivot table for deposit size and cost.......................................................................................................................................................... 212
Figure 221: Pivot table and chart combo for deposit size and cost.............................................................................................................................. 213
Figure 222: Pivot table and chart combo maturity and cost ........................................................................................................................................ 214
Figure 223: Pivot table and chart combo for deposit size and product ........................................................................................................................ 214
Figure 224: Pivot table and chart combo for cost and size by number of accounts ..................................................................................................... 215
Figure 225: Pivot table and chart combo for total deposit amounts by maturity ........................................................................................................ 215
Figure 226: Pivot table and chart combo for total deposit amounts by cost ............................................................................................................... 216
Figure 227: Core banking data for loans extract .......................................................................................................................................................... 217
Figure 228: Grades/ Categories for bucketing loan data .............................................................................................................................................. 218
Figure 229: Assigning grades for maturity buckets ...................................................................................................................................................... 218
Figure 230: Assigning grades for loan size ................................................................................................................................................................... 219
Figure 231: Pivot chart for loan size against maturities ............................................................................................................................................... 219
Figure 232: Pivot table for loan size against maturities ............................................................................................................................................... 219
Figure 233: Pivot chart for business line against maturities......................................................................................................................................... 220
Figure 234: Pivot table for business line against maturities ......................................................................................................................................... 220
Figure 235: Pivot table for advances product against maturities ................................................................................................................................. 220
Figure 236: Pivot chart for advances product against maturities ................................................................................................................................. 221
Figure 237: Pivot table and chart for advances maturities .......................................................................................................................................... 221
Figure 238: Pivot table and chart for concentration of advances in size versus maturity brackets by number ........................................................... 222
Figure 239: Maturity profile- advances ........................................................................................................................................................................ 222
Figure 240: Maturity profile- deposits ......................................................................................................................................................................... 223
Figure 241: Maturity profile-results ............................................................................................................................................................................. 223
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