At the end of October 2018, the Loan Market Association (“LMA”) launched for the first-time recommended forms of loan agreements and an updated user guide for Schuldschein transactions. While Schuldschein loans have been in existence for many years in Germany, they have seen in the past years a significantly increasing interest, both domestically and internationally.

Austrian and Romanian treasurers have participated for the first time at the Budapest Conference of Central and East European Treasurers hosted by the Hungarian Treasury Club for the seventh time on 18-20 October 2018. 

Powered by HSBC, it has been an exclusive invitation-only event run the 14 November, on the afternoon of the ACT Annual Dinner for several years. Context of course is everything. A contemporary treasurer needs an understanding of a full range of issues such as business strategy, geo-politics, technology (and not solely in a narrow treasury sense) and regulation. All that on top of the day job, the operational demands of today’s treasury responsibilities.

For the third straight year, EACT and IGTA (International Group of Treasury Associations) held joint meetings in the Czech capital on September 14 and 15, 2018. Three meetings took place over the weekend: the European association's semiannual Board of Directors' meeting, a joint EACT – IGTA meeting and the Annual General Meeting of the international association.