Geopolitics : Strategic implications for Cotporate Treasurers

Is it time to start a difficult conversation with your CFO about Treasury needing a bigger team?

If the international rules-based system is being replaced by Great Powers’ spheres of influence, today’s efficient global treasury models are unlikely to survive. Treasury is going to get more complex. We are seeing some of the symptoms already, and now is the time for treasurers to prepare for the new reality.

In our latest Expert Perspectives, Damian Gledinning talks to Robert Ward, Director of Geo-economics and Strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (www.iiss.org), about the drivers of the new world order and how it will require companies (and countries) to shift from optimising for efficiency, globally, to optimising for resilience, regionally, resulting in more complexity, higher working capital and funding requirements, and higher costs.

From a treasury perspective, the future may well look like the 1970s - and we will need the structures to manage it.

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