International Cash, Treasury and Risk for Finance Professionals in Asia

The reality is that the global economy is in a complicated phase. Although the power shift to Asia continues, China has rising tensions in the region and North Korea looks increasingly aggressive. If any of those were to escalate, the impact on the collective economy could be significant.
While the US may be growing (with some setbacks), it is hardly a boom, and the future depends to a degree on growth rates recovering elsewhere. Europe, for example, still has major challenges ahead. Governments everywhere have tough decisions to make, and corporates sitting on cash mountains need to invest to stimulate growth too. Fewer Asian finance professionals now routinely dismiss the rest of the world as irrelevant and, all in all, 2013 will still not witness the strong global recovery for which everyone had hoped.
Companies must accept a world order of long term uncertainty where risk is driving decision making. In these circumstances, cost cutting and rationalisation often trump investment and strategic thinking. Retraction to HQ is a knee-jerk response. But in an uncertain environment, companies still need to identify opportunities or they will fail to grow and reap rewards.
There continue to be opportunities to exploit in Asia. China is not the only game in town. So, as in Europe and Latin America, those who treat the region as one homogenous entity will lose out to those willing to tailor strategies to individual countries and able to fine-tune local financial structures and requirements to suit fast-changing business conditions.
At this conference, we will explore the realities, rewards and risks that companies are facing in the region.

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