My previous blogs from the ACT Annual Conference 2012 have dealt with some of the topics covered in the main sessions or breakout streams. Often, however, you get a better feeling of what's going on from short conversations around the venue and in the exhibition hall with treasurers, bankers, or the HSBC barista.

One such chat that stayed with me was that which I had ...

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The ACT Annual Conference 2012 kicked off this afternoon at the ACC Liverpool. While those arriving in the middle of the day ...