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The Handbook of Global Corporate Treasury
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The Handbook of Global Corporate Treasury

by Rajiv Rajendra
April 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
672 pages
13h 22m
English
Wiley
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Chapter Twenty Eight

Banks and Service Relationships

MANY OF THE DISCUSSIONS ON transactions, balance sheet and liquidity, and risk involve the use of banking products and relationships. It can be said that the bank and the product and service capability and offerings differentiate two identically staffed and structured treasuries. Indeed, the same bank and service team can provide diametrically opposite service levels to different corporate clients. In this context, a discussion around managing the banking and service relationship, evaluating the bank’s performance, and picking the right banks with a long-term relationship in mind is important and the aim of this chapter.

SAMPLE BANK ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

Banks have evolved over time to streamline their organisation to maximise customer impact. A typical commercial bank is comprised of various functions, as shown in Figure 28.1.

FIGURE 28.1 Typical Bank Functions

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Business-wise, commercial banks have a corporate and investment (or wholesale) arm, a consumer division that caters to individual banking needs, and a private banking division that caters to high-net-worth individuals.

The key support functions are:

  • Risk management, which has oversight of the credit, market, and liquidity risks of the organisation
  • Operations and technology, which runs the bank operations; these may be unified across the three businesses or separate, ...
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