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A persistência compensa: Insights da pesquisa bienal de benchmarking bienal do BCG

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Baixar Com a lucratividade do banco sob pressão, os tesoureiros devem melhorar a eficiência, otimizar o gerenciamento de recursos financeiros e a digitalização acelerada. Agora, no entanto, as instituições devem ter sua própria lucratividade. A pandemia exacerbou pressões estruturais e de mercado preexistentes e injetou uma nova complexidade de direção. As descobertas revelam três desafios centrais:
The status quo is no longer sustainable. With bank profitability under pressure, treasurers must improve efficiency, optimize financial resource management, and fast-track digitization.

Banks served as an important source of support for their customers and communities during the first waves of the COVID-19 crisis. Now, however, institutions must see to their own profitability. The pandemic has exacerbated preexisting structural and market pressures and injected new steering complexity.

BCG’s sixth biennial Treasury Benchmarking Survey, conducted over the course of 2020, captured insights from 39 banks across Asia, Europe, and North America, including 13 global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The findings reveal three core challenges:

These challenges are shaping the treasury agenda. Respondents globally cited three main aspirations for the next few years:

Operational Efficiency Gains New Urgency

Our 2020 Treasury Benchmarking Survey revealed that insight gaps and manual-intensive processes still plague many banks, with treasuries globally struggling to gather needed information and perform computations at the speed required. (See Exhibit 1.) Two-thirds of respondents (and 90% of those at G-SIBs) said that they lack accurate data to support Gerenciamento do balanço . E 42% dos participantes disseram que os dados necessários para concluir seu trabalho não estão disponíveis. As funções usadas pelo risco, finanças e tesouraria geralmente variam. A frustração está aumentando, com um terço dos entrevistados relatando que eles não podem gerar cálculos com rapidez suficiente. Os tesouros no quartil superior, baseados na contagem de cabeças, têm quase o dobro do número de equivalentes em tempo integral para cada € 100 bilhões em ativos do que as instituições mais magras no quartil inferior (43 pés e 24 pés, respectivamente) com a mediana chegando a cerca de 31 pés. (Consulte o Anexo 2.)

Even when treasury employees succeed in amassing the right data, respondents said that teams must then spend time reconciling inputs—often manually—since the calculations used by the risk, finance, and treasury functions often vary. Frustration is mounting, with one-third of respondents reporting that they cannot generate calculations fast enough.

Head count data shows that staffing levels vary widely among treasuries that are of a comparable size when measured by assets, suggesting that productivity also varies widely. Treasuries in the top quartile based on head count have nearly twice the number of full-time equivalents for every €100 billion in assets than do the leanest institutions in the bottom quartile (43 FTEs and 24 FTEs, respectively) with the median coming in at about 31 FTEs. (See Exhibit 2.)

To improve efficiency and performance, most respondents have ranked operating model improvements and data and IT modernization among their top agenda items. More than half (54%) indicated that having a cloud-based application environment is a key aspiration. Only 6% of treasury respondents work in organizations that have reached this level of modernization today. Participants from regional banks were also keen to improve their modeling and stress-testing abilities. To enable this, many hope to develop a microservices-based architecture that uses application programming interfaces (APIs) and employs a central data warehouse and data lakes.

Effective Financial Resource Management Is Imperative

Liquidity buffers have been growing in size even before the pandemic. Since 2019, they have grown by 3 percentage points and now represent roughly 20%, on average, of banks’ balance sheets (23% for G-SIBs). Liquidity coverage ratios (LCRs) have also grown, rising from 139% in fiscal year 2017 to 146% in fiscal year 2019, far above the regulatory minimum of 100%. And while large buffer sizes and high LCRs are often correlated, that was not true at several banks in 2020, suggesting some might be overly conservative in their financial resource management.

Addressing the size and composition of the balance sheet has taken on increased importance in light of declining NII. In recent years, central bank quantitative easing programs, weaker maturity transformation returns, and regulations—such as minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) and total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC)—have eroded NII performance, driving average treasury contributions down, from 12% in 2016 to about 9% in 2020.

To optimize the balance sheet, treasurers are placing heightened emphasis on financial resource management. Most have increased their risk appetite across the P&L. (See Exhibit 3.) In some cases, the shifts have been dramatic. Nearly three times the number of institutions elevated their risk appetite for interest rate transformation than lowered it, with many treasurers using that expanded appetite to increase the average maturity of modeled products. And nearly four times the number of treasurers raised their risk appetite in investment portfolio and capital investment than lowered it. Treasurers are increasingly looking at asset classes and securities that have longer horizons for returns and the potential for higher spreads.

The one area where the appetite for risk contracted was liquidity transformation, likely because of concerns about the depth and severity of the COVID-19 crisis when data for our survey was being gathered. Benchmark data shows that the average bank had a net stable funding ratio of 118% for fiscal year 2019 and that TLAC and MREL levels were also above the regulatory minimums by an average of 5 percentage points and 11 percentage points, respectively.

Looking ahead, treasurers will need to consider how to adjust their framework for steering financial resources in order to manage ESG. For example, 97% of respondents indicated that they expect ESG funding to increase. But while 56% said that their banks have launched an ESG issuance program, only one-quarter said that their institutions had set a minimum target for these bonds.

Digitalização na função do Tesouro deve acelerar

Embora o Tesouro tenha experimentado Novas tecnologias A uma taxa um pouco mais alta do que em 2018, eles não estão se transformando rápido o suficiente. (Veja o Anexo 4.) Menos da metade dos entrevistados disse que suas funções empregam auxílios -chave, como robótica ou aprendizado de máquina (ML), de maneira material. Oito em cada dez entrevistados disseram que sua organização se baseia em insumos manuais de especialistas e métodos estatísticos simples, como a regressão comum de mínimos quadrados. Olhando para o futuro, os tesoureiros concordam amplamente que seu estado -alvo deve permitir o uso de métodos estatísticos avançados (como a média móvel integrada autoregressiva com entrada exógena) e implantar os recursos de ML mais detalhadamente. (Consulte o Anexo 5.)

As a result, many forecasting methods remain rudimentary. Eight in ten respondents said that their organization relies on manual inputs from specialists and simple statistical methods, such as ordinary least squares regression. Looking ahead, treasurers are broadly agreed that their target state should enable the use of advanced statistical methods (such as autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous input) and deploy ML capabilities more fully. (See Exhibit 5.)

Os benefícios de atingir esse estado -alvo são significativos. O empregado de algoritmos orientados por ML pode ajudar as equipes do Tesouro a reduzir o trabalho manual, otimizar o uso de garantias, automatizar recomendações de compra ou venda e prever o comportamento do cliente, como taxas de pré-pagamento. Criar equipes interdisciplinares, dividir grandes projetos em sprints menores e estabelecer ciclos rápidos de revisão e liberação são maneiras estabelecidas de acelerar a digitalização e a adoção-especialmente no desenvolvimento do uso de uso de ML. Mas enquanto 50% dos entrevistados do tesouro acreditam

Embracing agile working practices will be important to help treasury teams avail themselves of these capabilities. Creating interdisciplinary teams, breaking large projects into smaller sprints, and establishing rapid review-and-release cycles are established ways to speed digitization and adoption—especially in ML use-case development. But while 50% of treasury respondents believe maneiras ágeis de funcionar Fornecer saídas de maior qualidade e economia de custos, menos da metade diz que suas funções do Tesouro usam esses métodos regularmente em seus projetos. Com base em nossa experiência com o cliente, agir decisivamente nas seguintes áreas pode aumentar o banco de 2%a 5%e, em alguns casos, em até 10%.

Persistence Will Pay Dividends

Leaders that commit to adapting the treasury function will find their efforts well rewarded. On the basis of our client experience, acting decisively in the following areas can boost bank NII 2% to 5%, and in some cases by as much as 10%.

Aumente a eficiência do modelo operacional. As etapas a seguir podem dar aos tesoureiros a autoridade e as idéias necessárias para melhorar significativamente a produtividade e o desempenho dos custos:

otimizar o gerenciamento de recursos financeiros. Para melhorar a contribuição de P&L do Tesouro e a saúde do balanço patrimonial, os tesoureiros devem aumentar o envolvimento do conselho nas discussões de apetite por risco. Os tesoureiros também devem revisar sistematicamente cada componente do balanço para identificar potencial inexplorado e otimizar cada camada. (Consulte o Anexo 6.)

Accelerate digitization. To pick up the pace of modernization, we suggest the following actions:


Treasuries have an opportunity to enter the postpandemic period on a much stronger footing. Although the interest rate environment remains challenging, a combination of strong bank liquidity, low market volatility, and a willingness to expand traditional risk tolerances create ideal conditions for treasury leaders to press for change. These changes are hard, but persistence will pay off by allowing treasurers to contribute demonstrably higher NII.

This article and the underlying BCG Treasury Benchmarking Survey would not have been possible without the cooperation of the participating banks. We are also grateful for the contributions of our BCG colleagues Michael Buser, Kirill Katsov, Anand Kumar, Chi Lai, and Tobias Strauch.

Autores

Partner & Director

Pascal Vogt

Parceiro e diretor
Colônia

parceiro & amp; Diretor Associado

Clemens Elgeti

Parceiro e diretor associado
Hamburgo

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro

Robert Schäfer

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro
Frankfurt

Diretor Associado

Martin Großmann

Diretor Associado
Frankfurt

Gerente de negócios do conhecimento

Carsten Wiegand

Gerente de negócios de conhecimento
Frankfurt

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro

Patrick A. Uhlmann

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro
Stuttgart

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior

= Roy Choudhury

Diretor Gerente e Parceiro Sênior
Nova Iorque

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