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Liquidity Stress, Social Media Shocks, and the New Risk Mandate for Treasury
Sudhir Kumar of U.S. Bank explores how the SVB crisis reshaped liquidity risk management, regulatory expectations, and balance sheet strategy.
Apr 17, 2025
Sudhir Kumar
Sudhir Kumar, SVP, Head of Capital Management Oversight, US Bank
Tags: ALM, Treasury and Liquidity Risk
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In this insightful interview, Sudhir Kumar, who leads capital planning and stress testing oversight at U.S. Bank, reflects on the seismic shifts triggered by the Silicon Valley Bank crisis. For Kumar, the collapse underscored the urgent need for real-time liquidity monitoring, diversification of funding sources, and rigorous stress testing. Treasury functions must now operate with a level of readiness once reserved for crisis scenarios.

Kumar highlights how digital acceleration and the power of social media have added unpredictable layers to liquidity risk. The conversation delves into how banks must now rethink asset-liability management strategies and embed risk assessments more deeply into governance structures and long-term decision-making.

From more granular ALM oversight to operationalizing contingency funding plans, Kumar emphasizes that Treasury must go beyond compliance. Institutions are balancing profitability, risk resilience, and regulatory mandates—requiring a more agile, transparent, and collaborative approach between risk, Treasury, and regulators.

As banks adapt to heightened scrutiny, Kumar advises leaders to integrate second-line functions into strategic planning, foster transparency across risk channels, and engage proactively with regulators. For Treasury leaders seeking to future-proof their balance sheets, it’s clear: reactive risk management is no longer enough.

Sudhir Kumar Bio

Over 20 years of experience in the banking sector, leading and managing transformational, strategic, regulatory compliance related initiatives in the risk and capital space. With expertise in regulatory capital management, stress testing and capital planning practices, financial forecasting and projections, treasury risk assessment and processes, methodologies and data analysis, and banking business models and processes. Primary focus has been assessing current practices and advising clients and business partners on bank’s highly complex and cross functional risk initiatives to meet internal policies, changing regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations, and alignment with peer bank practices. Worked for large banking institutions and premier consulting firm, comes with extensive knowledge of evolving industry practices along with ability to drive change on enterprise initiatives working closely with key stakeholders, senior management, and leadership.

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