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A Day in the Life

Victor Caso

Job Description : Treasury
Business : Finance
Year of Entry : 2006

7:00 Get up and get ready for work while playing with my son.
Have a quick breakfast while watching TV or doing a quick email check. Listen to music or read on the train.
8:30-9:00 Arrive at work
9:00-9:15 Check overnight email from NY and London.
Gather information about news that may impact domestic and global yen market liquidity in Tokyo, NY and London, focusing on central bank actions and currency movements.
9:15-10:00 Update the financing Database
which is used to produce daily / periodical liquidity reports for NY Treasury. Watch out for major changes in financing accounts.
10:00-10:30 Monitor global yen funding requirements for the day.
Coordinate with HK Operations on funding needs for the broker-dealer chain doing trades in yen.
10:30-11:30 Work on ad-hoc assignments
such as liquidity updates or cashflow projections. Do the first FX funding swap to meet global yen funding requirements.
11:30-12:30 Normally have lunch at my desk, since the domestic yen final number for the day is decided at this time.
13:30-14:30 Monitor non-yen bank accounts and do FX funding or investment swaps in these currencies.
15:30-16:30 Do the final global yen funding swap of the day and the intercompany funding sweep.
17:30-18:30 Upload cash flow projection into the Global Cash Flow system used by NY Treasury to provide information to US regulators.
18:30-19:00 Work on any other ad-hoc projects
and review any significant issues for the next day. Glance at the news coming in from London markets.
19:30 Go back home.
  From time to time go for drinks or for a walk near Shin-Marunouchi Building with my wife or friends. Occasionally play futsal with colleagues from the Finance Division and other departments.
20:30-22:30 Once a week, do the weekly Tokyo liquidity update
on the global liquidity call, in which Tokyo, APAC, NY and London Treasury teams review local and global liquidity issues. Check market news from NY before going to bed.

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