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As financial pressure intensifies across higher education, mergers may offer scale and strategic opportunity. But for treasury teams, they also bring more complex cashflows, lender considerations and integration risk.
The 2026 local election results signal a more fragmented and challenging operating environment for local government. For councils, the real test will be maintaining strong governance, financial discipline and continuity through political change.
CIPFA’s revised Prudential and Treasury Management Codes may not be final yet, but the direction of travel is already clear. Authorities that start reviewing their strategies, indicators, liability benchmark and governance arrangements now will be far better placed than those waiting for publication.
Benchmarking helps organisations move beyond internal trends and understand how their treasury, financial and operational performance compares with relevant peers. Used well, it can highlight risks, challenge assumptions and uncover practical opportunities to improve resilience, value for money and decision-making.
Funding reform could materially change the assumptions behind borrowing affordability, liquidity planning and investment strategy. Authorities that test the impact early will be better placed to protect financial resilience, avoid short-term borrowing pressure and make treasury decisions with confidence.
Following our previous insight on bond prices and yields, this piece explains duration, a key measure of how sensitive bonds and bond funds are to yield changes. It shows why longer-dated, lower-coupon assets usually move more, why duration matters for funds and valuations, and why convexity means estimates are approximate.
Rising service costs can quickly feed through into cashflow, liquidity and borrowing decisions. Stronger forecasting and clearer trigger points are essential where financial pressures are becoming less predictable.
Central banks are navigating a difficult balance between containing inflation and protecting fragile growth following the Iran conflict's energy shock. The Fed holds, the ECB edges toward hiking, and the Bank of England waits, but all three are watching closely for signs that inflation is becoming embedded.
Local Government Reorganisation is transforming England’s councils, as a whole, requiring a reassessment of capital programmes to align with new structures. All authorities must take the time to evaluate risks and affordability to protect future resilience by putting plans in place.
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