Treasury Finance and Development Banking: A Guide to Credit, Debt, and Risk, + Website

"This is an important and timely book that demonstrates the motivation and mathematics underlying the role of Treasury in banking. From first principles, the theory of development banking, emerging market finance, and funding is derived based on the underlying interest rate products available."
—Jamie Walton, Global Head of Rates, FX and Emerging Markets Quants, Morgan Stanley

"An outstanding description of what banking is all about. From the point of view of a treasury in a development bank, Biagio performs a deep analysis of the essential activities of banking, so useful in a moment when, after times of delusion, credit and funding are again recognized to be the heart of finance. Everyone in this field will find this book detailed, useful, and yet enjoyable."
—Massimo Morini, Head of Interest Rate and Credit Models, Banca IMI

Before the credit crisis, credit was primarily considered only when dealing with counterparty credit risk, high-yield debt, or credit-linked derivatives. Credit and credit risk now permeate every corner of the financial world.

Treasury Finance and Development Banking analyzes credit from the beginning—the point at which a borrowing entity decides to raise capital through its treasury operation.

Biagio Mazzi delves into the crucial functions that treasury funding plays in the operations of financial institutions, governments, and corporations. More importantly, he clearly demonstrates the various ways that treasury funding affects how financial activities are assessed, transactions are priced, and financial risks are managed.

As development banking offers one of the clearest and most straightforward examples of a treasury operation, while, at the same time, being situated at the crossroads of a wide range of topical issues (including multilateral agencies, quasi-governmental entities, emerging markets, and the shrinking pool of AAA borrowers), Biago Mazzi uses numerous real-world examples from the development banking world to elucidate:

• Curve construction, covering instruments, collateralization, discounting, and bootstrapping
• Credit and loan valuation, with an emphasis on fair value, modeling, and development institutions
• Emerging markets and liquidity, credit, capital control, and development
• Bond pricing (featuring coverage of credit, illiquid bonds, and recovery pricing)
• Treasury funding—with examples of asset swaps, borrowing/investing benchmarks, and more
• Risk and asset liability management with discussions of leverage, hedging, and funding risk

Treasury Finance and Development Banking will be a welcome addition to the working libraries of banking professionals, financial analysts, fund managers, and traders, especially those who work in the fixed income arena.