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How To Map Your Moves In China

Setting up a treasury shop there may not be on your agenda today, but it should be tomorrow

By Staff Writer | Updated on November 01, 2004

Mark Newman, one of two assistant treasurers at General Motors Corp., works these days in the New York treasurer’s office. But as the former CFO of Shanghai General Motors, his expertise will no doubt be called upon when GM moves its Asia regional treasury hub from Singapore to Shanghai sometime next year. “One of the biggest challenges is likely to be hiring local M.B.A. graduates with appropriate capital markets and treasury experience,” Newman predicts.

As he will quickly tell you, if a company starts up a treasury operation with the expectation that it will function anything like treasury operations in other regions, that company will be disappointed. There are many hurdles to normal treasury operations–some are regulatory and some are cultural, says Newman. “The financial professional’s mindset is, ‘Tell me the rules and I’ll apply them.’ But in China, context is important.”

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