Custody and treasury: sovereign investor due diligence
A practical institutional framework for assessing service scope, asset records, settlement, payment authority, reporting and operational resilience.
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Sovereign capital
Connect the public mandate to operational accountability.
Institutional banking should be evaluated against a defined investment mandate and operating model. These guides separate cash management, custody, settlement, reporting and authority so that the responsibilities between a fund and its providers remain visible. They do not identify confidential mandates or imply a partnership with any sovereign institution.
A useful reading order.
Start with the operating guide to map the services and their handoffs. Continue to the due diligence guide to examine evidence, exceptions and continuity. Read the two together: a service map says what must work, while due diligence asks how you know the proposed arrangement can support it.
Use the framework, verify the terms.
The frameworks are educational starting points for a fund’s own legal, risk, treasury and operations teams. They are not investment recommendations, legal opinions or certifications of any bank. Compare scope before pricing, assign owners to unresolved questions and preserve the reasoning behind approval decisions.
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Sovereign wealth fund banking: an operating guide
Explore how cash, custody, treasury, reporting and governance can support a sovereign wealth fund’s mandate and institutional operating model.
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