AFT operations

Reporting to the Director General of the Treasury and managed by a Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive, AFT is an agency with national scope (SCN)

 

 

Organisation chart

 


1. Cash Unit:

  • drawing up cash forecasts;
  • relations with the Banque de France as the Treasury’s banker;
  • relations with government authorising officers and accountants;
  • cash management transactions: loans and deposits, repos of government Securities.

 

2. Debt Unit:

  • auctions, syndications, buybacks;
  • relations with the primary dealers;
  • proactive debt management transactions;
  • promotion of Treasury securities to investors.

 

3. Post-Trade Operations and Risk Monitoring Unit:

  • review and settlement of financial transactions and reporting all data to the Ministry’s Budget and Accounting Control Department;
  • debt redemption and coupon payments
  • credit, counterparty and settlement risk monitoring for all financial transactions; margin call management
  • management of the administration of the Government Debt Fund

 

4. Research Unit:

  • quantitative contribution to the definition and the execution of the State financing strategy
  • interest rate markets monitoring and relations with primary dealers strategists
  • coordination of working groups with other public issuers (EU, OECD, etc.)
  • secretariat of the AFT Strategic Committee
  • assessing the impact on the fixed income markets of the macroeconomic and financial climate, fiscal and monetary policies and discussions on structural policies;
  • talking with French and foreign investors and market stakeholders;
  • relations with rating agencies
  • coordination of the interdepartmental process for selecting green expenditures eligible for green OATs;
  • monitoring the allocation of green expenditures and producing the allocation and performance report;
  • monitoring the work of the Green OAT Evaluation Council;
  • monitoring best practices and standards in the field of sustainable finance;
  • participation in the promotion and influence of green OATs;
  • supporting CADES in its social bond program.

 

6. Communication Unit:

  • external communication: reporting on AFT’s work and assignments and promoting events to the financial community and the media;
  • internal communication: monitoring and gathering information, creating communication tools;
  • digital communication: website management and deploying AFT's digital presence.

 

7. IT Unit:

  • administering and operating the information system to provide the information technology tools necessary for AFT's tasks;
  • leading projects to implement new software and services;
  • monitoring and applying the information system security policy and maintaining information technology resources under the business continuity plan.

 

8.Internal control, Compliance, Risk policy and Legal affairs:

  • implementation of internal control of transactions, definition of the general activity framework and preparation of risk maps for AFT and the Social Security Debt Repayment Fund
  • coordination of various audits, coordination and secretariat for the AFT Risk Committee
  • legal and compliance risk management for AFT and the Social Security Debt Repayment Fund’s transactions
  • management of the rules of conduct for AFT staff, definition of AFT’s confidentiality policy and monitoring their implementation