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Kaupthing Bank’s treasury

Kaupthing Bank Treasury is responsible for Group funding, including management of liquidity and foreign exchange exposure, as well as providing exchange, interest rate and other risk management products to third parties and inter-bank trading. Within Treasury, operations are divided into Inter-bank Trading, Derivatives Trading, Proprietary Trading, Client Facilitation and Funding. Treasury’s largest operations are in Iceland but activities are also undertaken in Luxembourg, Denmark, the UK, Sweden and Finland.

About Kaupthing Bank
Kaupthing Bank is a Northern European bank offering integrated financial services to companies, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. These services include corporate banking, investment banking, capital markets services, treasury services, asset management and comprehensive wealth management for private banking clients. Kaupthing Bank operates in thirteen countries with its headquarters located in Reykjavík. As of 31 December 2007 the number of full-time equivalent positions was 3,334 at Kaupthing Bank and its subsidiaries.

Treasury

Kaupthing Bank Treasury is responsible for managing the Bank’s funding, liquidity, interest rate exposure and trading in foreign currencies and derivatives, which includes warehousing of risk arising from financial products sold to the Bank’s clients. Group Treasury is a central coordination unit responsible for the overall Treasury strategy of the Bank with a presence in both Iceland and the UK. The newly established Kaupthing Edge internet deposit bank is also part of Treasury. In addition to Group Treasury, the Bank has treasury operations in most of the countries it does business in.

Further information:

  • For more specific information on Treasury Division in a specific country contact your local Kaupthing Bank office.

 

Last updated/revised: 2 June 2008



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