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The Nigerian Corporate Treasury Playbook
How to manage liquidity, FX exposure, and cross-border payments in a high-rate, high-volatility environment. Written for CFOs, Group Treasurers, and Finance Directors at Nigerian mid-market and enterprise businesses.
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Inside this playbook
- 20 pages of practical frameworks
- 6 chapters covering core treasury functions
- 10 questions self-assessment scorecard
- 20 pages of practical frameworks
- 6 chapters covering core treasury functions
- 10 questions self-assessment scorecard
—— What’s inside
Six chapters. One operational framework
How to manage liquidity, FX exposure, and cross-border payments in a high-rate, high-volatility environment. Written for CFOs, Group Treasurers, and Finance Directors at Nigerian mid-market and enterprise businesses.
Cross-Border Payments Built for Nigeria
Why global payment infrastructure fails African businesses — and what a platform built from the ground up for Nigeria actually looks like.
The Liquidity Imperative
The 60- and 90-day reserve framework. The three disciplines of liquidity: collect faster, pay more strategically, maintain the separation.
Managing FX Exposure Without a Hedging Desk
A four-step operational approach to FX risk for businesses without a treasury hedging desk — including the exposure register and timing policy.
Cash Visibility
Why Nigerian cash visibility is structurally harder — and what genuine visibility looks like, including automated reconciliation via virtual accounts.
Payment Controls & Approval Governance
The four elements of sound payment governance: approval hierarchies, segregation of duties, audit trail, and supplier account verification.
When Spreadsheets Stop Working
Six signs your treasury has outgrown manual processes — including the cost case, and the NRS compliance deadline you cannot afford to miss.
—— Who it’s for
Written for the people making the calls.
Not a beginner’s guide. Not theoretical. This is a working framework for finance leaders at Nigerian businesses managing real complexity in real time.
CFOs & Finance Directors
Managing treasury across multiple banks, navigating FX volatility, and building the governance structures that let your team operate with confidence.
Group Treasurers
Responsible for consolidated cash positions, FX exposure registers, and cross-border payment infrastructure across Nigerian and African operations.
Finance Managers scaling up
Running a finance function that has outgrown its current toolset — and looking for the operational frameworks that belong at the next level.
—— From the playbook
The insight that changes how you think about treasury.
Liquidity is not a state you maintain reactively. It is a discipline you build proactively — before you need it.
On liquidity
Your Group Treasurer is logging into multiple portals every morning and building a consolidated view that is already 30 minutes out of date by the time it is finished. This is a systems architecture problem, not a people problem.
On cash visibility
A policy on paper that is not enforced by the system is not a control.
On payment governance
—— Treasury Readiness Scorecard
Where does your treasury actually stand?
The playbook closes with a 10-question self-assessment across four domains — cash visibility, FX management, payment governance, and cross-border compliance. Score yourself honestly.
Each question scores 1 to 3. Your total out of 30 maps to one of four readiness levels — and tells you exactly where your financial exposure and daily operational cost are concentrated.
Score interpretation
25-30
Treasury leader
Best-in-class for the Nigerian mid-market. Focus now on scalability and strategic capability.
18-24
Solid foundations, material gaps
You have the basics. Two or three areas are carrying operational risk.
10-17
Functional but fragile
Held together by specific individuals, not systems. One absence could break it.
<10
Significant exposure
Your board likely doesn’t know the full extent of the treasury risk you’re carrying.
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