Our thanks to J.P. Morgan for hosting the latest of our Young Treasurers' Evening, and in particular to speakers Maximilian Meyer, Paul O'Connor, Janice Daly, CFA, Maddison Hampson, and Claire Gunning for providing their insights into the ever changing conversation around ESG. Panel ably conducted by Andrew O'Connor.

Plenty of chat and treasury networking at our Summer Social and Cultural Evening in The Crypt, Christchurch Cathedral. A drinks reception and guided tour was followed by our panel discussion about diversity, equity and inclusion in the professional workplace.

A big thanks to our panel Elise Kearns, Aga Nalaskowska, Emerson Silva, Rachna Thalluri and Cian Butler for a thought provoking and engaging conversation.

The IACT Annual Golf outing took place on 9th May in the Grange Golf Club. Following a week of rain we were lucky to be treated to ideal conditions with an afternoon of sunny skies.

A shotgun start at 2.00pm had 20 teams taking part. A further group of 10 took part in the Novices event which has been growing in popularity each year since it was introduced in 2017.

After the golf, over 100 players enjoyed well-earned drinks on the terrace followed by a BBQ. This led to the prizegiving, allowing for plenty of conversation and circulation among the participants.

Our thanks go to The Grange golf club staff who did a great job in getting us out on time and in tallying the scorecards to produce team winners ING with second prize going to Bank of America.

Maurice Kenny of ING won the members first prize and perpetual trophy, with second prize awarded to John Murray of JP Morgan.

Our thanks to Citi for hosting a Cyber Security Event in conjunction with the IACT. It was an engaging afternoon full of great insights and practical learnings to increase resilience and readiness for Cyber Attacks. 

The audience took part in an interactive cyber exercise and learnt how to keep their company’s information secure and what to do in the event of a Cyber attack.

The third and last session in our 3 part series focused on how to use a Treasury Management System (TMS) to transform the treasury function to better meet the challenges of market volatility, soaring interest rates, and rapid company expansion.

Implementing a new TMS comes with many opportunities, but also challenges. Creating a feasible and realistic implementation plan can help mitigate the future pitfalls of delayed timelines, scope creep, insufficient stakeholder commitment and an exhausted treasury team. We covered how to implement a TMS system from A to Z with all different phases from scoping & build phases through testing, cutover & go-live while ensuring you will remain within budget and timing.

Thanks to our valued Patron PwC for hosting the event.

Speakers:

• Meindert de Vreeze - International Treasurer at Publicis Groupe
• Damien McMahon – Partner at PwC
• Steven Krippner – Senior Advisor at PwC
• Simon Tytgat - Senior Consultant at PwC

Our recent Young Treasures event focused on FX, with 3 panelists giving their different perspectives.

Our thank to the panel: Cian Butler, Treasury Manager, Primark, Barry McKillop, Senior Treasury Analyst, ESB, Ciaran Barry, Senior Dealer, Corporate & Institutional, Danske Bank, and Fran Jimenez, Director of Corporate Treasury, KPMG. 

Kindly hosted by KPMG in their innovation hub Platform X, this panel discussion was followed by drinks and networking.

The IACT Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) chapter invited IACT members to a breakfast meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, and to join the Inspire Inclusion campaign to collectively forge a more inclusive world for women.

The event was kindly hosted by McCann FitzGerald LLP with keynote speaker Breda McCague (Global Motivational TED speaker) who spoke of leadership, resilience and innovation.

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Thank you to Fexco for hosting the IACT - Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers at their RDI Hub in Kerry on 7th February.

After opening remarks from John James Dunne , Anna Savage and Mark O'Connor ,John Faherty gave us an insight to the evolution of the payment landscape. We had an excellent presentation from Katherine Moore and Francis McGinn on the Future of Payments. Ruth McCarthy shared the evolution of Fexco, highlighting the need to keep changing which is a key factor in the global success of this Irish company. We rounded out with a panel discussion chaired by Ger Guest which gave attendees a chance to share their thoughts on Realtime payments, cybersecurity and other challenges.

Our thanks to Colin O'Grady and the Fexco team for planning and putting this a great session. 

Getting it right in the system selection phase can help mitigate the future pitfalls of missed functionality, exploding budgets, and delayed timelines. This session covered how to define and rank your specific current/ future requirements, how to make sure the vendors address these and how to impartially score the differences. 

The session was a corporate focused discussion with PwC experts, IACT board members and a Corporate Treasurer with valuable relevant past experience (Kiera Agnew - Assistant Treasurer - Kelloggs).

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