Takeda Pharmaceuticals – Ben O'Higgins, Treasury Analyst. This category acknowledges the special relationship between buyer and seller. Letters of credit, guarantees and open account trading are common. We are now seeing much greater use of automation in traditionally paper-based processes. Blockchain is also seeing some traction in the trade space.

The way that companies use commercial cards has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 crisis – but while T&E volumes have inevitably fallen, the use of cards for B2B spend is on the rise, explain HSBC's Jo Towers and Brian Tomkins.

In this podcast we look at new and innovative ways of using virtual accounts. We speak to Matthew Wagstaff, Global Product Manager Virtual Accounts, Global Liquidity & Cash Management at HSBC to find out about the ways they are being deployed by corporates today. Matthew is an expert on virtual accounts, leading HSBC's innovation in this space, and helping many clients implement solutions.

On 25th November 2022, senior financial professionals from across the Asia Pacific region gathered at Raffles hotel in Singapore for the ninth Women in Treasury APAC Forum. As well as celebrating women in the world of treasury, the annual event has also become a powerful voice in furthering diversity and inclusion.

We are joined by Citi's Lorraine Donnelly, EMEA Industry Sales Head, Healthcare & Consumer Goods Clients, Treasury & Trade Solutions and Laura Fogarty, Healthcare Industry Head to discuss the latest developments at Citi surrounding the intersection of technology and healthcare as industry sectors and how the bank categorises these different supergroups.

On 19th October, senior financial professionals from across the United States gathered at the Manhattan Midtown Loft and Terrace for the seventh Women in Treasury New York Forum. Our four key speakers discussed their career paths, shared their thoughts on diversity and inclusion and offering advice from overcoming cultural differences, mentoring and the challenges of career and family life.

In this year’s EMEA Forum, four experts discussed their career journeys and shared their insights on how to make the right decisions, take risks and switch between different disciplines. They also spoke about the importance of mentorship and sponsorship, and what hybrid working means for gender equality.

We are delighted to launch our Adam Smith Awards Asia 2021 – A Winner's Guide podcast series. In this first short episode I will explain what the Adam Smith Awards Asia are, why you should consider nominating and the key dates for your diaries. Nominations opened on 7th June and will close on 6th September 2021.

This is the second episode of the Treasury Insiders podcast series brought to you by Treasury Today and BNP Paribas. In this episode we look at the evolution of e-commerce amidst the backdrop of the global pandemic. Sophie Jackson is joined by Neil Pein, Head of Payments Transformation and Global Head of Acquiring at BNP Paribas who offers an insight into this space.

In this, the second episode of our Expert Voices podcast series, we speak to Jonas Hedman, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Carola Schmitz-Becker, Vice President Corporate Treasury at Deutsche Post DHL, and Lothar Meenen, Global Head of Corporate Cash Management Sales, GTB Cash Lending, CBNL for Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, to understand how real-time payments are impacting treasury departments. We also ask whether a truly real-time treasury ecosystem can be created using the technology that is available today and the effect this might have on cash and liquidity management.

Winner – GE Capital, Manoj Sinha, in partnership with Bank of America. Highly Commended – China Unicom. Their partner J.P. Morgan speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Risk continues to be top of every treasurer's agenda, from foreign exchange risk, counterparty risk, commodity risk and interest rate risk to cyber risk, reputational risk and supply chain risk. It feels like corporates have never had more risks to manage, making this an ever-increasing critical responsibility for the treasury function.

The Women in Treasury US Forum 2020 featured a vibrant and insightful virtual panel discussion with four leading industry speakers, providing a lively debate of some of the key topics highlighted by the respondents of our Women in Treasury Global Study 2020, in association with State Street Global Advisors.

Standard Chartered’s Head of Client Analytics Oksana Pidkuyko explains how companies can navigate today’s heightened risks by developing hedging strategies that turn volatility into a friend rather than a foe.

The Ukraine crisis, inflation and rising interest rates are all affecting the investment landscape. At the same time, money market fund reform is once again on the horizon in the US and Europe. We hear from industry experts Whitbread Group, HSBC Asset Management and BlackRock to find out more about the factors shaping today’s MMF landscape and the possible impact of future reform.

From lockdowns to rising inflation, the last two years have brought multiple challenges for global supply chains – and disruption and uncertainty are set to continue. How can treasurers help their companies navigate this challenging landscape? Andrew Blincoe, Head of Corporates & Institutions at NatWest Group, and Peter Bolstorff, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at The Association of Supply Chain Management, share their views.

We are delighted to continue our Adam Smith Awards 2022 – A Winners' Guide podcast series. In this third and final episode, John Nicholas, Senior Advisor, talks through the criteria for submissions and gives some helpful tips on what our judges will be looking for. Nominations are now open and will close on 11th April.

Enno Dykmann, Treasurer of Alliander, and Geeta Sharma, Director, Portfolio Manager at BlackRock's International Cash Business, discuss how treasurers can invest cash in a sustainable way, and how asset managers are incorporating ESG considerations into their processes.

In this Episode, we explain the criteria for entry, some tips to aide your submissions and what our judges look for when making their decisions. Nominations are now open and will close on 6th September 2021.

Overall Winner – Worley. Their partner HSBC speaks about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended Winner – New South Wales State Government. Their partner Citi speaks about their winning solution and collaboration. Cards are no longer just a piece of plastic; corporate cards have become an integral part of the cash management set-up. Here we see how cards, including virtual cards, are being used to improve the T&E processes.

Overall Winner – ST Telemedia, Darren Chua, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – KPJ Healthcare Berhad, Norhaizam Mohammad, in partnership with HSBC. Highly Commended Winner – Radico Khaitan, Dilip Banthiya, in partnership with DBS. Highly Commended Winner – Samsonite China. Their partner J.P. Morgan speaks about their winning solution and collaboration. This was a new category in 2020 to respond specifically to the challenges faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wanted to recognise the Herculean efforts that have been demonstrated as you respond to the demands of the new normal. There have been some extraordinary demonstrations of best practice that we feel deserve special recognition, this year including one company which switched its entire production facility in response to the crisis and another which deployed a QR code to help swab testing.

How is technology supporting the evolving role of the treasurer? And how can treasurers tap into everything from AI and data analytics to AML solutions as they take on a more strategic position within their organisations? In a recent virtual roundtable held by Treasury Today and the Bottomline TreasuryXpress team, industry experts discussed the latest developments in this podcast.

Overall Winner – Hetero Labs Limited, Dr. Vamsi Krishna Bandi, in partnership with Standard Chartered. This is awarded by our judges to recognise a project or solution that demonstrates something particularly special, outside of our defined categories. It could be something not seen previously or, as is the case this year, an innovative response to the specific challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The response was quick, direct and urgently needed.

Overall Winner – Ant Group, Kelvin Li, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – General Electric, Amit Grover, in partnership with Citi. Here we look at liquidity solutions such as cash pooling structures. Some are single country/single currency, whilst some corporates have implemented multi-country/multi-currency and even cross-currency arrangements which "follow the sun", and one which goes 'against the sun' yet still respects value dating across time-zones.

On 17th September, Treasury Today and State Street Global Advisors hosted the next in their series of Future Treasurer roundtables. This virtual event included an insightful look at the evolving role of the treasurer, as well as the challenges brought by recent months and how new working conditions may have affected progress made in furthering diversity and inclusion.

Almarai Company, Chandana De Silva, Siemens Capital Middle East, Ulrich Schiessl, in partnership with BNP Paribas, Aramex PJSC, Arun Singh, in partnership with Citi. This category addresses any corporate treasury solution in the Middle East region. From the UAE to Saudi Arabia, we see some impressive solutions.

In this the third episode of our Expert Voices podcast series we look at cyber-security, undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges faced by corporates and financial services firms. We tap into academic expertise in the field and find out how treasurers view the challenge of cyber-security and the strategies they are employing to protect their organisations against cybercrime and online fraud.

In this, the first episode of our Expert Voices podcast series, we speak to Dr Andrei Kirilenko, Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at the Imperial College Business School, Zac Nesper, Assistant Treasurer at HP, and Michael Spiegel, Head of Cash Management and the Regional Head of Global Transaction Banking Germany at Deutsche Bank, to analyse the key technology trends impacting corporate treasurers. We also discover how treasury can harness the potential of new technology and drive greater value across the organisation.

In our latest podcast with Standard Chartered, Tarek El-Yafi, Regional Head of Cash Management Sales, and Karen Hom, Managing Director of Transaction Banking, discuss working capital solutions, the importance of technology, and what a well-run treasury should look like.

In the third Digital Dialogues podcast episode, we hear from Philip Summerton, CEO of Cambridge Econometrics, together with Sandip Patil and Kanika Thakur from Citi, about geopolitical risk and the broader world trends shaping treasury in 2022.

Overall Winner – Sanofi India, Somak Ghosh, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Visteon Electronics India Pvt Ltd, Jessica Cao and Ramalingam Rajasekar, in partnership with Bank of America. Highly Commended Winner – Herbalife International India Pvt Ltd, Ajay Khanna, Uday Prakash and Vivek MP, in partnership with DBS. To acknowledge the specific challenges of operating in this dynamic country, here we showcase treasuries in India that have implemented, or are in the process of implementing, a cash/liquidity management, card, trade/SCF, WCM/AP/AR, funding/ESG, FX, risk and/or technology/cyber security/fintech solution.

Overall Winner – PTT Exploration & Production Public Co. Ltd., Anutra Bunnag, in partnership with Bank of America. Highly Commended Winner – Sanofi S.A., Jackson Xu, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – PLDT Group. Their partner DBS speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Efficient working capital is a key challenge for corporates of all shapes and sizes. This is all about improving key performance indicators of DPO, DSO, DIO, DWC and the cash conversion cycle.

Overall Winner – Alibaba, Tian Tian Wang, Newson Liao and Jun Feng, in partnership with Citi. Cyber-security continues to be a major issue for companies of all shapes and sizes with most household names having been victims of cyber-crime past, present and future. We look here at how an organisation is mitigating the threat of a cyber-attack.

Overall Winner – Meituan-Dianping. Their partner J.P. Morgan speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended – Medtronic, Tim Husnik, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Highly Commended – Danone, Zurab Abutidze, in partnership with Citi and Kyriba. This category looks at foreign exchange and solutions that have responded to the ever-evolving challenges this area poses to corporate finance professionals. From technology to new processes, change to a hedging strategy or a new FX requirement as a result of entering a new market or dealing with a new currency and/or client/supplier.

In this Episode, we explain the criteria for entry, some tips to aide your submissions and what our judges look for when making their decisions. Nominations are now open and will close on 12th April 2021.

Overall Winner – Cargill Asia Pacific Treasury Ltd, Nyet Sian Kiew, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Highly Commended Winner – Carlsberg Singapore Pte Ltd, Dawn Hoe, in partnership with Citi. This category incorporates any relationship (internal as well as external) managed by the treasury function, such as investor relations, employee relations, ratings agencies, procurement etcetera, in addition to the core bank(s)/other service provider(s) relationships. Economic turmoil and the recent coronavirus pandemic have certainly focused minds on the value of relationships.

Overall Winner – Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, Colin Teo Whee Min, in partnership with Citi, DBS, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered. Highly Commended Winner – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Noel Brady. Highly Commended Winner – Capital Environment Holdings Ltd, Cao Guoxian. Many corporates are exploring alternative sources of funding, diversifying and/or refinancing their funding sources. We see many different types of funding submitted here, from a diversified mix of funding to Panda and hybrid bonds.

Overall Winner – Honeywell, Freya Yao, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Petroliam Nasional Berhad. Their partner, UOB, speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended Winner – Li & Fung Ltd, Denis Savastano, in partnership with DBS. Trading internationally can be challenging. Cash flow issues can arise between paying suppliers and getting payment. From distributor finance, pre-shipment finance and receivables discounting to forfaiting, factoring and payables finance, we look at some of these SCF solutions.

Overall Winner – Shell Treasury, Stuart Madell, in partnership with Citi. LAST EPISODE IN THE SERIES: Payables are key to any business. How do companies negotiate improved payment terms with their suppliers? We have seen an increase in the use of shared service centres (SSCs) and payment factories in recent years and Payment-on-Behalf-of (POBO) structures are a lot more common now.

Overall Winner – Diana-Iulia Macarascu, BAT. Highly Commended Winner – Loyal Hartman, Line-x, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Jane Sutherland, Doosan. This category captures the emerging technology solutions. We have heard much about the fintech revolution, open banking, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, robotics, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. Some have moved beyond proof of concept and are now being used for real.

Overall Winner – Klook, Ching Ling, in partnership with J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this category we showcase how companies have addressed the trade-off between yield, liquidity, cash preservation and counterparty risk. AAA-rated money market funds are frequently involved, with CNAV, VNAV or Low Volatility Net Asset Value (LVNAV) funds included.

Overall Winner – Pulat Yunusmetov, Danone. This category recognises talent coming through the corporate treasury ranks. The individual may have excelled in a professional qualification or may be a future Finance Director or CFO.

Overall Winner – Severn Trent Water Ltd, Anthony Kilkenny. Highly Commended Winner – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Urs Berger. Risk continues to be top of every treasurer's agenda, from foreign exchange risk, counterparty risk, commodity risk and interest rate risk to cyber risk, reputational risk and supply chain risk. All are covered.

With treasurers and their organisations focusing more closely than ever on ESG and sustainability, it's important to pin down what ESG really means and how treasurers can tackle this issue.

Overall Winner – JetBlue Airways, Ursula Hurley, in partnership with BNP Paribas. Highly Commended – d.light Ltd, Josphat Rotich, in partnership with Citi. Here we look at sustainable projects including the finance related to the mitigation of and/or adaptation to climate change/CO2 emissions as well as investment strategies which incorporate ESG/CSR factors.

Overall Winner – Esperanza Casillas Arana, AbbVie Inc, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Hallvard Bokn Eikeland, Equinor ASA, in partnership with Citi. This category addresses any corporate treasury solution on the continent of Africa. We feature solutions from Nigeria and South Africa.

During a virtual Leaders' Workshop "Inclusion in Action" supported by J.P. Morgan, panellists discussed the importance of mentors and role models, tying inclusion and diversity progress to performance targets, and the importance of managing inclusion in real-time.

Overall Winner – Esperanza Casillas Arana, AbbVie Inc, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Hallvard Bokn Eikeland, Equinor ASA, in partnership with Citi. This category addresses any corporate treasury solution in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Regional Centre of Excellence is one company's solution, with another focused on the challenges in Brazil.

Abraham Geldenhuys, Kongsberg Automotive, in partnership with Bellin and J.P. Morgan, Kevin Dillon and Colum Lane, Pfizer, Highly Commended – Frank Barbara, Blackstone, in partnership with Bank of America, Highly Commended – Greg Yen, United Talent Agency, in collaboration with City National Bank. Technology is a key component in many of the submissions we receive and is always a hotly contested category. We see projects ranging from the use of APIs and RPA to full-blown treasury technology transformation involving TMS/ERP integration and much more.

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important focus for corporate treasurers – and this was the focus of a recent virtual roundtable hosted by Treasury Today and Standard Chartered. A panel of expert speakers discussed the impact of COVID-19 on sustainability initiatives, the benefits of sustainable supply chain finance initiatives, and the impact of regulation on this space.

Goodyear, Rene Krack, Sysco Corporation, Carrie Reyna, in partnership with J.P. Morgan, General Electric, Manish Joshi. Here we look at liquidity solutions such as cash pooling structures. Some are single country/single currency, whilst some corporates have implemented multi-country/multi-currency and even cross-currency arrangements which 'follow the sun'.

World Central Kitchen, Erich Broksas, in partnership with Bank of America, Google, Andrew Miller, in partnership with Citi, Grifols, Steve Wong, in partnership with Bank of America. Cards are no longer just a piece of plastic; corporate cards have become an integral part of the cash management set-up. Here we see how cards are being used to improve the T&E processes.

Overall Winner – Norsk Hydro, Per Christian Lindgard and Hege Lundemo Larsen in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Cyber-security continues to be a major issue for companies of all shapes and sizes, with many household names having been victims of cyber-crime in recent months. We look here at how organisations are mitigating the threat of a cyber-attack.

A Rising Star – Tian Song, Baker Hughes. This category recognises talent coming through the corporate treasury ranks. The individual may have excelled in a professional qualification or may be a future Finance Director or CFO.

Treasury Insiders is a new podcast series brought to you by Treasury Today and BNP Paribas. The first episode focuses on the impact of the crisis on treasurer's liquidity, investment strategy, centralisation and more as BNP Paribas offer solutions to treasurer's painpoints. Sophie Jackson is joined by Coralie Van Zyn, Head of Product Development Payments and Receivables, Wim Grosemans, Global Head of Product Management – Payments & Receivables and Mariya Tretyak, Head of Global Cash Pooling Products at BNP Paribas.

SWIFT's global payments innovation (gpi) is arguably its most successful initiative for decades. With the gpi for corporates offering gathering pace, is it all it can be? In this Treasury Today podcast we'll be exploring the latest developments with Eric Bayle, Director – Head of Global Transaction Banking, UK, Societe Generale, and Marc Delbaere, Global Head of Corporates and Trade, SWIFT.

How can treasurers forced to work from home during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic ensure they remain safe, secure and effective? In this Treasury Today podcast we explore the options in the company of Actualize Consulting's Kerry Wekelo, COO, and Priscila Nagalli, Director, Treasury Practice Group.

It goes without saying that Know Your Customer (KYC) has been the bane of corporate treasurers' lives for many years. With more than 1.3 million bilateral correspondent banking relationships across the industry, and countless more for corporates, how is SWIFT meeting the challenges and the needs in this complex arena?

In recent years, the focus on sustainability has been growing in popularity across the globe. With treasurers facing increasing pressure to imbed sustainability principles to support and drive their corporate's strategy, the sustainability agenda sees no sign of abating. In the latest podcast with Treasury Today, we caught up with two pioneers leading the sustainability charge – HSBC and the Republic of Seychelles.

The adoption of technology in corporate treasury is reaching a tipping point. Bottomline's latest podcast with Treasury Today unveils the meaning of payments innovation.

In this special Women in Treasury podcast in our Treasury Talks series, we are joined by Meg Coates, Joint Publisher & Head of Operations at Treasury Today, Frances Hinden, VP Treasury Operations at Shell, and Yeng Butler, Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Cash Business at State Street Global Advisors, as they discuss the Women in Treasury 2018 Annual Global Study results.

It's still early days for open banking but already much is expected of the initiative, not least for corporate treasurers. In this special, final episode of our Expert Voices podcast we talk to a range of experts about the potential benefits of open banking and APIs for treasurers in managing their balance sheets and how banks and fintechs can help deliver solutions to that end.

Morgan McKenney, Head of Core Cash Management (Asia Pacific) at Citi discusses how ecommerce is impacting business models and behaviour of organisations in Asia Pacific.

A shakeup of the European money fund industry is underway as regulatory reforms push fund providers to adjust their offerings. Whether you are an existing or potential money market fund investor you need to understand the new environment and types of funds being offered. In this podcast Kim Hochfeld, EMEA Head of Liquidity Distribution, Douglas McPhail, Senior Portfolio Manager and Scott Wachs, Global Liquidity Product Head for Morgan Stanley, look at the regulatory hurdles ahead and what investors can do to prepare for the change.

In the third episode of the Innovation at Standard Chartered podcast, Waqar Chaudry, Executive Director – Innovation, Financing & Securities Services, and Rene Michau, Global Head, Digital Assets, explain why digital assets are a 'today problem' that cannot be put off until tomorrow.

We rarely give APIs, the hidden technology that allows multiple applications to interact, exchange and obtain data, a second thought. Yet they are crucial tools enabling a cost effective and frictionless business experience that allows treasury to connect across the business and with banking partners, explains Nadya Hijazi, Global Head of Business Banking Digital at HSBC.

We are delighted to launch our Adam Smith Awards 2021 – A Winner's Guide podcast series. In this first short episode I will explain what the Adam Smith Awards are, why you should consider nominating and the key dates for your diaries. Nominations open on 25th January and close on 12th April 2021.

This is the tenth year of our Women in Treasury EMEA Forum and our four experts discussed their career journeys and shared insights on how they have shaped their own leadership style. They also spoke about the efficacy of quotas and some of the enduring challenges for women in treasury including the stigma of maternity leave in the US, and concerns about returning to work after a break.

Overall Winner – Shell International Ltd, Michael Dawson. Highly Commended Winner – Phoenix Group, Hana Harrison. Many corporates are exploring alternative sources of funding, diversifying and/or refinancing their funding sources. We see many different types of funding submitted here and companies have taken the opportunity to benefit from the low interest rate environment. We've even seen one major company renewing its Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) in anticipation of the demise of LIBOR.

Employers offering full remote working have the competitive edge in today's struggle for talent. Candidates with tech and AI skills are most in demand but movement across senior treasury positions is still slow. Mike Richards from The Treasury Recruitment Company talks to Sarah Rundell.

In our second audio episode we sat down with Sarika Joshi of Zalora and Sanjeev Jain at Citi to explore emerging business models in theory and in practice. Some of the most dynamic treasury, payments and general corporate finance innovation is occurring in the e-commerce and digital native space. The pandemic has accelerated and enhanced the commerciality of digital first, e-commerce, young and adaptive companies. The ability to move rapidly and both guide and follow their consumer base has propelled retail companies with a strong e-commerce base into a new world. These savvy and tech-based businesses process data and consumer insight rapidly, adjusting and evolving their approach and outlook to maximise efficiency and profit. This is reflected in their treasury and finance functions, where they can adapt to a fast paced environment and allow data and consumer insight to power a new kind of progressive and future focused decision making business model.

Managing over 30,000 FX spot, forward, and swap transactions worth over US$1trn a year, Shell's existing FX management system was in desperate need of an upgrade. In the latest podcast with Treasury Today, Shell explains how a successful partnership with Bloomberg has resulted in a best-of-breed FX solution which helps manage its FX transactions.

In this episode, Sophie Jackson, Publisher & Head of Strategic Content, explains the new and exciting award categories we have added this year. A full list of our categories and descriptions is on our website here: https://treasurytoday.com/adam-smith-awards-asia/categories

We are delighted to begin our Adam Smith Awards Asia 2022 – A Winners' Guide podcast series. In this first episode, Sophie Jackson, Publisher & Head of Strategic Content, explains what the Adam Smith Awards Asia are, why you should consider nominating and the key dates for your diary. Nominations are now open and will close on September 5th.

Cummins Inc. – Matthew Sullivan, in partnership with Bank of America, Microsoft – Rahul Daswani, Safaricom plc – Florence Kiburi, in partnership with Citi. Trading internationally can be challenging. Cash flow issues can arise between paying suppliers and getting payment. From distributor finance, pre-shipment finance and receivables discounting to forfaiting, factoring and payables finance, we look at some of these SCF solutions.

Microsoft, Lucas Meyer, in partnership with Accenture, Microsoft, Saurabh Bhalla. Here we look at how companies manage their accounts receivables, including reconciliation. As with payments, we are now seeing Collection-on-Behalf-of (COBO) structures emerging.

HP Inc. Peter Chau and Nikhil Handa, United States Steel Corporation, Laurie Wiggins, in partnership with Bloomberg LP, Baker Hughes, Jonathan Konrad, Satish Akundi and Dheeraj Parmar. This category looks at foreign exchange and could be the use of technology, a new process, change to a hedging strategy or a new FX requirement as a result of entering a new market or dealing with a new currency and/or client/supplier.

In this final episode we explain the criteria for entry, some tips to help you prepare your nominations and what our judges look for when making their decisions.

In the fourth Digital Dialogues podcast episode, Citi's Kanika Thakur speaks about trade finance trends in APAC, while Nanyang Technological University's Kwok-Yan Lam shares his views on developments in data security.

Treasury Today Group and State Street Global Advisors launched the first, virtual edition of their co-hosted Future Treasurer series of roundtable events. These events are an evolution of the work that the two companies have done together over the past three years focusing on female representation, inclusion and diversity. In this podcast episode you can listen to some of the content from the first virtual event, where attendees heard from speakers Lynda McGoey, Global Head of Trade Finance at General Electric and Kim Hochfeld, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Cash Business at State Street Global Advisors and from their peers as they shared best practice advice for the future of treasury and discussed the recent challenges of working amidst a global pandemic.

By combining banking, technology and innovation, SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's innovation, investment and ventures arm, is creating new business models that are solving treasury’s most pressing challenges.

Balagopal Kunduvara, Divisional Vice President Financial Services at Singapore Airlines talks about his treasury priorities during the pandemic and his key focus for the company in the year ahead.

In our 2021 Women in Treasury US Forum, our five experts discuss their career paths, share their experiences and highlight the importance of gender equality, representation and visibility within our community whilst offering advice on what we should keep in mind when looking ahead to the future.

We are delighted to continue our Adam Smith Awards 2022 – A Winners' Guide podcast series. In this second short episode our Publisher and Head of Operations, Meg Coates, talks through the new and enhanced categories for this year and hears from some of last year’s individual category winners. Nominations are now open and will close on 11th April.

Standard Chartered's Simon Derrick and Robert Newell discuss the key types of sustainable finance that treasurers should be aware of, the workload and risks to consider when embarking on sustainable finance initiatives, and the extent to which developments vary between different markets.

We are delighted to launch our Adam Smith Awards 2022 – A Winners' Guide podcast series. In this first short episode I will explain what the Adam Smith Awards are, why you should consider nominating and the key dates for your diaries. Nominations open on 31st January and will close on 11th April.

Treasury teams should explore cash segmentation strategies to balance their liquidity and working capital needs alongside investing for higher returns and diversification. BlackRock's James Morek and Brett Davis explain.

Standard Chartered Bank's Stuart Keelan and Desiree Pires discuss how navigating inflation risk, hedging and sustainability are key themes for treasury teams coming out of the pandemic.

Cash management technology has an increasingly important role to play as treasurers look for ways to free up time and manage risk more effectively. James Capps and Tricia Turner of BlackRock explain the value they see in technology in today's market and share their thoughts on how this space could develop in the years ahead.

Alexander Foltin, treasurer at European chip maker Infineon talks about his treasury priorities against the backdrop of challenges in the global semiconductor industry.

In our first audio episode with Jason Han of Nanyang Technological University and Citi's own Sandip Patil, we explored the most exciting digital innovations of the past decade, outlining the scope of our upcoming episodes throughout the course of this year's series and focusing on both their experiences and insights.

In this year's APAC WiT forum, expert panellists reflect on how they progressed their careers in finance and share their key advice. Elsewhere the conversation talked about the damaging impact of the pandemic to gender equality and the role of men in supporting equality.

In this Episode, we explore the new categories we have added this year. A full list of categories can be found online at treasurytoday.com. Nominations are now open and will close on 6th September 2021.

Overall Winner – Olam International Ltd., Jayant Parande, in partnership with Citi, DBS, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered. Highly Commended Winner – Grab Holdings Inc., Wilson Koh, in partnership with Kyriba and UOB. Highly Commended Winner – HCL India, Vineet Sood, in partnership with Citi. This is our most prestigious and competitive award. Here we recognise any corporate treasury team that has made an outstanding contribution to its organisation over the past 12-18 months. This could be purely the treasury team, comprising several team members, or a broader team effort, involving many disciplines across the enterprise.

What does responsible investment mean to treasurers? Which factors are driving change in this area? And what sort of terminology should treasurers be aware of? Joshua Kendall, Head of Responsible Investment Research and Stewardship at Insight Investment, shares his views in the first of a series of three podcasts.

In this episode, we speak to Minna Helppi, Group Treasurer, at Metso Outotec about the role treasury played during their merger, the companies supply chain finance programme and how she is introducing sustainability in treasury.

In the first of a series of three podcasts, Standard Chartered’s Steve Pairman, Head of Cash Product, UK and Marion Reuter, Regional Head of Transaction Banking Sales, Europe discuss the transformational role of digitisation and the key aspects treasury teams need to get right.

Overall Winner – Agrocorp International, Vishal Vijay, Nitin Jain and Rahul Jain. Highly Commended Winner – PNB Housing Finance Ltd. Their partner Citi speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended Winner – GE Capital, Paul English, in partnership with DBS. This category looks across the range of the E, the S and the G. We focus on sustainable projects including the finance related to the mitigation of and/or adaptation to climate change/CO2 emissions as well as investment strategies which incorporate ESG/CSR factors and solutions which relate to the achievement of sustainability-linked KPIs.

Overall Winner – Alibaba.com, Issac Chen, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Dairy Farm, Leslie Chan and May Lee, in partnership with ION Group. Highly Commended Winner – AMS Sensors Holdings Asia Pte Ltd, Arno Gruner, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Highly Commended Winner – Microsoft, David Meunier. Technology is a key component in many of the submissions we receive and this is always a hotly contested category. We see projects ranging from the use of APIs and RPA to full-blown treasury technology transformation involving TMS/ERP integration and much more.

Overall Winner – Microsoft, Fanny Niu. Highly Commended Winner – Chubb Insurance Australia Ltd, Gerard Sitaramayya. Highly Commended Winner – Pontian Pei Chun Chinese Schools.Payables are key to any business. How do companies negotiate improved payment terms with their suppliers? We have seen an increase in the use of shared service centres and payment factories in recent years, and Payment-on-Behalf-of structures are a lot more common now. We also look at how companies manage their accounts receivables, including reconciliation. As with payments, we are now seeing Collection-on-Behalf-of structures emerging.

Overall Winner – Cargill Asia Pacific Treasury Ltd, Nyet Sian Kiew, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Highly Commended Winner – Carlsberg Singapore Pte Ltd, Dawn Hoe, in partnership with Citi. This category acknowledges the special relationship between buyer and seller. Letters of credit, guarantees and open account trading are common. We are now seeing much greater use of automation in traditionally paper-based processes. Blockchain is also seeing some traction in the trade space.

In this Episode, we explore the new categories we have added this year. A full list of categories can be found online at treasurytoday.com. Nominations are now open and will close on 12th April 2021.

Overall Winner – SABIC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Sylvia Hue. Highly Commended Winner – Stanley Black & Decker India, Jessica Chan, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. This category captures the emerging technology solutions. We have heard much about the fintech revolution, open banking, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, robotics, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. Some have moved beyond proof of concept and are now being used for real.

Overall Winner – Xiaomi Group, Lu Hao, in partnership with HSBC. Highly Commended Winner – Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China. Their partner Citi speaks with us about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended Winner – Littelfuse Inc, Janet Chong, in partnership with Bank of America. Here we showcase any treasury in the PRC that has implemented, or is in the process of implementing, a cash/liquidity management, card, trade/SCF, WCM/AP/AR, funding/ESG, FX, risk and/or technology/cyber security/fintech solution.

On August 20th, Treasury Today Group gathered its West Coast community for the second in its digital interactive lunchtime Future Treasurer events. Attendees from the San Francisco, Seattle and Palo Alto regions were jointly hosted by Meg Coates, Publisher & Head of Operations and Sophie Jackson, Publisher & Head of Strategic Content from the Treasury Today Group, Kevin Zimmerman, Head of US Cash, Direct Channel and Charlie Praska, Director of Cash Business Development at State Street Global Advisors.

The Women in Treasury EMEA Forum 2020 featured a vibrant and insightful virtual panel discussion with four leading industry speakers, providing a lively debate of some of the key topics highlighted by the respondents of our Women in Treasury Global Study 2020, in association with State Street Global Advisors.

Overall Winner – AVX Corporation, Doug Knebel, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Lear Corporation, Angela Li, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – General Mills, Christopher Emslie, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Any solution which demonstrates how the company manages/forecasts its cash is recognised here. It could be a simple single country/single currency/single bank solution, or a multi-country/multi-currency/multi-bank solution and might involve the use of an In-House Bank (IHB) or virtual accounts. Always a popular category amongst our corporate treasury universe.

Overall Winner – Tricia Ho-Hudson, Woolworths Group Ltd. Highly Commended – Rita Jiao, Beijing Didi Infinity Technology & Development Co Ltd. This category is open to any woman operating in the corporate treasury environment who can demonstrate real innovation, achievement and someone who is an inspiration in her current role.

Overall Winner – Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Sasha De Gracia, in partnership with TreasuryXpress. Our judges wanted specifically to recognise the challenges posed by the coronavirus or COVID-19 with this new category. This pandemic has created unprecedented times, with supply chains being adversely impacted, teams having to adopt entirely new working practices, relationships with internal as well as external parties changing beyond recognition, cashflow coming under the spotlight like never before and the entire corporate treasury environment has been turned on its head. We look at how our Overall Winner in this category responded.

Highly Commended Winner – Alcon Inc., Brice Zimmermann, in partnership with Citi. Any solution which demonstrates how the company manages/forecasts its cash is recognised here. It could be a simple single country/single currency/single bank solution, or a multi-country/multi-currency/multi-bank solution and might involve the use of an in-house bank or virtual accounts. Always a popular category amongst our corporate treasury universe.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Enrico Zecchini, in partnership with Citi, Mood Media International, Adam Pring, in partnership with Bank of America, YOOX Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP), Angela Marconato, in partnership with Citi. This category incorporates any relationship (internal as well as external) managed by the treasury function, such as investor relations, employee relations, ratings agencies and procurement, in addition to the core bank(s)/other service provider(s) relationships. Economic turmoil and the recent coronavirus pandemic has certainly focused minds on the value of relationships.

Micro Focus Treasury, Rob Ebrey and Christopher Swiss, in partnership with J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Uber, Carolyn Hansen, in partnership with ICD Portal, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Miho Kumazawa, easyJet, Adam Boyle, in partnership with GSAM. In this category we showcase how companies have addressed the trade-off between yield, liquidity, cash preservation and counterparty risk. AAA-rated money market funds are frequently involved, with CNAV, VNAV or Low Volatility Net Asset Value (LVNAV) funds included.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals – Amit Singh, SVP Group Treasurer, Baker Hughes, Varun Wadhwa and Steven Krippner, in partnership with PwC. Here we recognise a corporate treasury team that has made an outstanding contribution to its organisation over the past 12-18 months. This could be purely the treasury team, or a broader team effort involving different disciplines across the enterprise and is the most coveted award.

Best Working Capital Management Solution – Unilever, Hesham Moustafa, in partnership with Citi. Efficient working capital is a key challenge for corporates of all shapes and sizes. This is all about improving key performance indicators (KPIs) of DPO, DSO, DIO, DWC and the cash conversion cycle (CCC).

Judges' Choice – Microsoft, Carol Caines and David Meunier. This is awarded by our judges to recognise a project or solution which doesn't quite fit one of the mainstream categories but really does stand out. It could be something not seen previously or, as is the case this year, a piece of work which specifically responded to COVID-19.

Treasury Today Woman of the Year 2020 – Deepa Palamuttam, Intel. This category is open to any woman operating in the corporate treasury environment who can demonstrate real innovation, achievement and someone who is an inspiration in her current role.

Treasurers seeking an organisation-wide, cost-effective, frictionless technology experience need to be thinking about APIs. To discover how they can remove barriers to automation, solve common pain points and potentially deliver unprecedented levels of system flexibility, agility and scalability, join Nadya Hijazi, Global Head of Digital, Global Liquidity and Cash Management and Business Banking, HSBC.

Earlier this year, we attended the Treasury & Finance in Africa Conference, run by Eurofinance, where we were able to catch up with Bohani Hlungwane, Regional Head of Trade and Working Capital at Absa Group to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Area and what it means for treasurers already in the region, and those looking to enter it.

Short-term investors have seen interest rates hit new lows, turn to zero and, for some, go negative. Can treasurers do anything to enhance yield without taking unacceptable risks? Will Goldthwait, Vice President, Portfolio Strategist, State Street Global Advisors explores the options.

"In a relatively short time frame, most of the world will have adopted real-time payment systems in one form or another, and they will come to dominate the way in which we all interact." That's the view held by Victor Penna, Head of Cash Management for Europe & Americas, and Global Head of Structured Solutions Development, Cash at Standard Chartered.

For any corporate treasurer, cash and investment management will always be high up on the business agenda. This is truly apparent for the international travel giant Expedia Group – a business operating in over 70 different countries. In this latest podcast with Treasury Today, Expedia Group explains how the company managed to build a comprehensive solution to give it enhanced portfolio visibility across its 40+ currencies.

Female representation is currently one of the biggest topics in the global corporate world. Treasury Talks discusses the current situation, what companies can do, and our hopes for the future.

This is the third episode of the Thriving Treasury Podcast series, brought to you by Treasury Today and HSBC. In this episode, Suraj Kalati, HSBC's Global Head of Liquidity & Investments Product Management, explains why expertise in data analytics is becoming increasingly critical for treasurers as they seek to better manage working capital, liquidity and risk and how they can go about finding the analytics solution that best suits their needs.

Treasury Talks sits down with Royston Da Costa, Assistant Group Treasurer at Ferguson to talk about the technological revolution in treasury. Royston candidly shares his views on the impact that technology is having on his treasury department and what technology he wants to see develop and come into treasury departments in the near-future.

In our second instalment of the Treasury Talks podcast series, we revisit the global financial crisis of 2007/2008 and hear from Roman Kozhan, Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School why the crisis happened. Then, Jim Colby, Assistant Treasurer at Honeywell and Fred Schacknies, ‎SVP & Treasurer at ‎Hilton Worldwide detail their experiences during the crisis, document the impact it has had on how corporate treasury departments operate and ponder whether something similar will happen again.

In this, our first edition of the Treasury Talks podcast created in partnership with the Singapore Association of Corporate Treasurers, we hear from some of the country's leading treasury professions who talk about the treasurers changing role and highlight the skills you need to be a successful treasurer today.