APSCo Insight with HSBC: Agnostic overview of banking and capital solutions for the recruitment sector

Many times we see good, bankable propositions being presented in a manner may prolong the process of raising finance. HSBC will be providing a bank agnostic overview in terms of banking and capital solutions for the recruitment sector and straightforward, simple ideas on how best to present your business to a bank when seeking to raise finance. We will then explore the key funding options that are prevalent across the sector and provide a brief guide on how best each is utilised to benefit your business within a wider funding structure across both short term and longer term funding structures.

This will cover:

• Working capital funding 
• An overview of funding options to support working capital
• Understand your working capital cycle and cash dynamics
• The importance of your cash cycle
  
  
• Leveraging your assets to access funding
• Using your key balance sheet assets to support self-liquidating funding structures
• An overview of how these type of products typically operate and function
• How this can fit as part of a wider funding structure
  
  
• Treasury policy
• Understand the importance of having a Treasury policy to assess and control counter party risk exposure with Financial Institutions
• Ensure that where you have exposure to Foreign Currencies, the tools used to hedge FX exposure our understand, approved and controlled at a board level
• Using interest rate hedging to manage risk
  
  
• Growth debt funding
• Overview of the debt market
• Funding structures to support long term funding needs
• Key terms and features in the market
  
  
• Ideas and suggestions on presenting your business
• How to appreciate credit highlights of your business
• Understanding and presenting a Bank Case forecast – what you want to be achieving
• Building relationships across your bank
   

The session will provide you with the tools and ideas to enable you to engage with Banks, leverage your banking relationship and support your engagement with finance professionals.

With Rob Brand, HSBC, Head of Business Services, Ben Whitlock, HSBC, London Regional Director and Matt Cunningham, HSBC, Director, Debt Finance Origination