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).

IACT Treasury Review

This half-day training course was aimed at those who were relatively new to treasury, or those who were looking for a detailed introduction to treasury management activities, infrastructure and organization.

Guest lecturers from academic, financial services and the corporate treasury sector shared their expertise on various Treasury topics including

• Treasury Technology
• Risk Management
• Capital Markets

A very engaging session this morning for our members on Corporate Governance and Management’s Role in Setting up the Board for Success.

Our thanks to speakers Dr Margaret Cullen, Governance Advisor to the Institute of Directors in Ireland, Niall Best, Partner, McCann FitzGerald LLP Corporate Governance.

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The social highlight of the IACT calendar, the Annual Dinner, was held on Friday 13th October in the Shelbourne Hotel. Attended by 289 members and guests, the evening commenced with a drinks reception followed by MC John Gilsenan starting proceedings and a welcome speech by IACT President Aimee Cullen.

Winner of the annual IACT Treasury Achievement Award was Porsche International Finance, with Managing Director Dan Ludford accepting the award on behalf of his team.

To close the formal part of the evening, guest speaker, impressionist Conor Moore entertained us with a variety of well-known personalities. There was a great atmosphere with a full house in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel. Food and dinner were superb as always and a great night was had by all.