TREASURY POLICY

The group has a centralised treasury operation whose primary role is to manage liquidity, funding, investment and the group’s financial risk, including risk from volatility in currency and interest rates and counterparty credit risk. The treasury operation is not a profit centre and the objective is to manage risk at optimum cost.
The Board sets the policy for the centralised treasury operation and its activities are subject to a set of controls commensurate with the magnitude of the borrowings and investments under its management. Counterparty credit risk is closely monitored and managed within controls set by the Board. The group does not hold or issue derivative financial instruments for trading purposes. All transactions in financial instruments are undertaken to manage the risks arising from underlying business activities.
We have set out further details on this topic in note 33 to the consolidated financial statements.

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