In the current trading environment, where companies really need to have both acute visibility over their financial assets, and the most effective plans to manage them, we revisit the notion of the Chief Liquidity Officer and ask if it is time to create this central role, and if so, is the corporate treasurer best-placed to fulfil it?

Questions:

    To what extent is the notion of the Chief Liquidity Officer necessary under current trading and economic circumstances?
    How would you define the role what might it be required to do and what benefits might it bring to an organisation?
    What skills, tools and resources would a successful CLO require?
    To what extent does the corporate treasurer already fulfil the CLO role?
    What would enable a treasurer to take their liquidity management approach to the next level e.g. in terms of strategy and empowerment?

As a start see the attached articles.

Please leave out lenghty definitions or background blabla – focus on the topic and the questions.