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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.
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.
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.
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