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As the State’s corporate treasury services provider, our role is to implement the operational functions of a corporate treasury for the benefit of our customers and the State. In performing this role, our primary responsibilities include:

  • providing financial risk management services and advice to the State and its public sector organisations
  • sourcing the State’s long-term debt funding requirements in the most cost effective manner, and
  • investing the State’s short to medium-term cash surpluses with the aim of maximising returns to Queensland’s public sector bodies within a conservative risk management framework.

We do not formulate Government policy, but work within the policy frameworks developed by Queensland Treasury and the Government.

DEBT FUNDING
In our funding role, we borrow funds in the domestic and international markets in a manner that minimises the State’s and QTC’s liquidity and rollover risk. We then lend these funds to our customers, or use them to manage our customers’ debt or refinance maturing debt.

Through our responsibility for more than 99% of the State’s debt raisings, we are able to capture significant economies of scale and scope in the issuance, management and administration of debt.

These economies, together with our AAA rating (from the State of Queensland’s guarantee of our securities), result in a low cost of debt for Queensland’s public sector. This funding is used to provide tailored financial solutions for our customers.

SHORT- TO MEDIUM-TERM INVESTMENTS
We use our financial markets expertise, developed through our relationships with the domestic and international markets, together with our understanding of debt management and experience in implementing systems, to provide our customers with investment solutions that achieve a high return within a conservative risk environment. Customers have a choice of a managed short-term fund, an overnight facility, or fixed term facilities.

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES
We work closely with our public sector customers, using our combined skills and knowledge, to assist them to manage risk in their financial transactions and achieve the best financial solution for their organisations and the State. In assisting our customers, we do not provide advice that is contrary to the interests of the State.

We encourage our customers and Queensland Treasury, our major stakeholder, to use our organisation as an extension of their resources, by:

  • Providing them with access, on a cost-recovery basis, to professional skills and resources to ensure that their financial risks are identified and managed on a consistent basis.
  • Acting as a central store of knowledge and expertise on financial structures and transactions, and the risks and benefits that they encompass.
  • Providing Queensland Treasury with independent advice on matters of financial and commercial policy and financial and commercial risk relating to the State and its entities.
  • Working as a conduit between the Government and the private sector, using our economies of scale and scope to ensure that the best possible solutions are obtained.

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