Ten years on the treasury landscape has been reshaped, writes David Green, as borrowing, investments, interest rates, regulation and accounting rules have all gone through change. As Room 151 celebrates[…]
Sponsored article: Kerry Duffain looks at the challenges facing treasury managers and the prospects for “relative value” investing in fixed income. Markets have been buffeted by hawkish central banks and[…]
Sponsored article: Matthew Norris looks at the benefits of investing in the infrastructure that underpins the modern digital world. The digital age is firmly here. In just one minute on[…]
Sposored article: Dennis Gepp looks at the role of ESG in the liquidity process. The consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment management has evolved with the[…]
COP26 may not have offered the perfect outcome but its stress on the importance of local communities underlines the need for central government to back council efforts to tackle carbon[…]
On November 8th, 2011, we hit the “go live” button on www.room151.co.uk and our adventure in local government finance publishing was underway. With no editor, no journalists, no money and[…]
Andrew Hardingham marks the 10th anniversary of Room151 by looking back at a decade of local government finance. Firstly, a statement of the obvious: Every local authority section 151 officer[…]
Controversy continues to gust about the consultation over the Prudential and Treasury Management codes. Revised draft guidance of the consultation—published in September—has caused some concern that councils would need to[…]
The regulator has reported revealing improvements in local government audit but key issues remain unresolved, writes Stephen Sheen. At the end of October, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) released its[…]
Room151 experts offer their response to the spending review. Kate Ogden This spending review is relatively generous, and much more generous than suggested by the plans the chancellor published even[…]
