About Us
ABOUT US
ABOUT US
Meet the people behind Augury Insights.
Meet the people behind Augury Insights.
We are financial services practitioners with significant expertise in treasury, capital, liquidity, collateral and performance management. We specialise in providing training and advisory for financial institutions, including commercial banks, central banks and multilateral agencies.
With more than 70 years of combined experience in the field, we know our industry like the back of our hands. There is no challenge too big or too small. We dedicate our utmost energy to every project we take on.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our leadership team reflects a group of diverse individuals with breadth and depth of experience across the financial services industry.
NICHOLAS WOOD
Director
Nick leads our business development and is the co-founder of Augury Insights. Nick has extensive experience in training large business groups on ALCO effectiveness and balance sheet optimisation and is a regular speaker at industry events on treasury topics. Nick was recently the Financial Sector Consultant for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he provided specialist advice on impact of regulatory reforms on banks and financial stability in Asia and the Emerging Markets and contributed towards the IMF Global Financial Markets Stability Report. He has been a bank treasury expert for 38 years, of which more than 27 years were spent in Asia, where he built highly profitable trading floors, conducted entity business reviews and has first-hand balance sheet management experience during market crises and idiosyncratic stress across large banking groups. His former roles at Standard Chartered and AMEX included Head of Business Treasury, Head of Liquidity Management, Head of Funds Transfer Pricing Policy and ALM Business Planning Manager.
RAHUL KALE
Director
Rahul leads our technical team and is the co-founder of Augury Insights. Rahul has 20 years of experience in finance with a strong focus on business transformation. He was formerly Head of Liquidity Management of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered, where he led balance sheet analytics, review, stress testing and optimisation initiatives to improve shareholder returns. He has written papers on regulatory impacts on institutions and businesses. He is experienced in industry lobbying and works closely with industry bodies like Institute of International Finance (IIF) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He was recently the Asia liaison for Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT) where he covered the industry engagement and collaboration of Asian banks on key issues impacting Transaction Banking. Prior to Standard Chartered, he was at GE Money Australia, before he relocated to Singapore to expand a consultancy's presence in Asia. Rahul is a graduate of Monash University and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.