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UK Treasury Bills offer high-quality, short-term government exposure with competitive yields, but remain underused due to operational complexity and limited market familiarity, despite ongoing efforts to expand the market.
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Expanding transnational education is exposing UK universities to significant new foreign exchange risks — from currency controls and repatriation delays to counterparty vulnerabilities. As offshore income streams grow more complex, treasury management must evolve to keep pace.
Rising interest rates have created a potentially significant opportunity for charities carrying fixed-rate debt. Whether prepayment makes sense depends on loan valuation, negotiation with your lender, and careful consideration of liquidity and accounting consequences, and the outcome will vary considerably from case to case.
Charity trustees carry collective responsibility for treasury oversight — yet many boards lack the confidence to scrutinise investment and borrowing decisions effectively. The right training programme, tailored to trustees and staff alike, can strengthen governance, reduce risk, and ensure your charity meets its Charity Commission obligations.
Local authority-to-local authority lending, a £13bn market, faces complexity during reorganisation, particularly where loans span vesting dates. Clear agreement, robust documentation, and pragmatic approaches such as managed debt are essential to minimise cost, maintain liquidity, and avoid operational disruption while ensuring an orderly transition to successor authorities.
Government decisions on local government reorganisation show a shift away from strict population thresholds towards models reflecting economic geography, service demand and local identity. Recent structures in Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk prioritise functional areas and community alignment, contrasting with Surrey’s scale-driven approach focused on financial sustainability and population size.
At the NHF Treasury in Housing conference, rising costs, tighter lending terms and uncertain cashflows stood out as key pressures for housing associations, alongside growing interest in funding, liquidity and treasury strategies to support resilience in a tougher market.
The Subsidy Control Act 2022 came into effect on 4th January 2023 replacing EU State Aid rules. This sets out the framework under which local authorities should award subsidies going forward.
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