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As financial pressure intensifies across both councils and charities, the Civil Society Covenant could create a new opening for deeper, more strategic partnerships. But turning that ambition into lasting collaboration will depend on getting the treasury, liquidity, counterparty and working-capital risks right from the outset.
Local elections in May 2026 will take place against a difficult backdrop for councils, with financial resilience stretched, higher borrowing costs, capital programmes under pressure and reorganisation creating uncertainty.
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Why do bond prices fall when yields rise? It all comes down to fixed cashflows and how markets reprice them - an essential concept behind movements in gilts and bond funds.
Business inflation expectations have jumped to 4.4%, but the economy is weakening and wage growth is easing. The Bank of England will almost certainly hold rates on Thursday, but the path from here is far less clear.
The issues that appear to be most common are that of inconsistent treatment of capital expenditure and inappropriate asset lives. Audit deadlines are tightening, bringing treasury management into sharper focus and leading those issues, and others, to become more visible. Taking time to review approaches, improve documentation and work more closely with auditors will buy you the ability to produce more confident audit outcomes.
The EU has updated its Bank Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance framework, introducing a harmonised depositor preference that ranks deposits ahead of senior unsecured bank debt across member states. For treasury investors, this strengthens the relative position of deposits in a bank failure, while potentially weakening the standing of some unsecured debt instruments.
Bank bail-in analysis helps assess how losses would be allocated if a bank fails, under a framework designed to protect financial stability without relying on public funds. It is a key tool for understanding credit risk and the potential impact on investors and depositors.
Concerns are growing that increasingly powerful AI models could expose vulnerabilities in banking systems and critical financial infrastructure, posing a new form of systemic risk. While some of the threat may be overstated, it reinforces the need for strong cyber security, diversification, and robust contingency planning across the sector.
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