Adam Smith Awards Asia – winners podcast series

This is awarded to a company which is that little bit different, doesn’t quite fit one of the other categories and is recognised by our judges as a result of the specific field in which the company operates, the particular solution it has implemented or simply because it stands out as being different. Overall Winner – Olam Group. Their partner Ricky Kaura, Standard Chartered talks about their winn...

This category looks at how a company has implemented a treasury related solution, or is in the process of being implemented, on a regional basis – a regional solution is defined as five countries or more. Overall Winner – Daniel Teo, Bridgestone Asia with Lillian Sim, J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – BYD Company. Their partner Amy Hu, Citi talks about their winning collaboration and solution...

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. Overall Winner – Xiaomi Corporation. Their partner Ji Yang, Citi speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Kuaishou Technolog...

In this episode, we take a look at the overall and highly commended winners of our best digitisation solution, another new category for 2022 to address the emerging digital solutions. Perhaps the company has reengineered its processes, where digitisation is a key enabler. Perhaps the use of API's is central to the solution, or maybe the company has deployed a mobile technology solution. We ha...

This category looks at sustainability and how corporate treasury can play it's part in addressing ESG issues, climate change and CO2 emissions. Overall Winner – Bee Lin, Senior Manager, Investor Relations, Lendlease Global Commercial REIT with Melvin Dineshraj, Citi and Mark Yeo, OCBC. Highly Commended Winner – Louis Dreyfus Company. Their partner Ashish Pandey, Citi speaks about their winnin...

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 and ERP integration and much more. Overall Winner – Louis Khoo, Director, Kimly Construction Pte Ltd with Poh Yee Ng, UOB. Highly Commended Winner – Abbott Malaysia. Their pa...

Trading international can be challenging and the past 12 months or so has really shone a light on supply chains. The buyer seller relationship has never been more important, and we've seen a number of innovative solutions emerge from distributor finance, pre-shipment finance and receivables discounting to forfaiting, factoring and payables finance. Overall Winner – Hindustan Unilever Limited,...

This category is extended this year to include short, medium and long term investments that showcase how organisations have optimised and or diversified their investment portfolio, particularly important in a low or negative interest rate environment. We look at how they've addressed the trade-off between the yield, liquidity, cash preservation and counterparty risk, or perhaps consider ESG f...

This is a new category for 2022 which looks at how companies manage/forecast its cash, working capital and how it makes and receives payments whether in a single or multi-purpose solution. Highly Commended Winner – Ivan Tan, Managing Director, SP Digital, SP Group with Adrian Ong, UOB. Highly Commended Winner – Zhang Lin, Senior Finance Director, Zoetis with Lillian Sim, J.P. Morgan.

Our most prestigious and always fiercely-contested category. Here we recognise a corporate treasury team that has made an outstanding contribution to its organisation over the past 12-18 months. Overall Winner – Sachin Chougule, Associate Vice President, Finance & Treasurer, Infosys Ltd with Karandeep Singh Batth, Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Shoko Suzuki, Chief Transformation Officer for U...

As risk continues to be top of every treasurer's agenda; our winners provide their solutions relating to all aspects of risk which arise in the corporate treasury arena. From foreign exchange risk, counterparty risk, commodity risk and interest rate risk to cyber risk, reputational risk and supply chain risk, all are covered here. It feels like corporates have never had more risks to manage,...

This category covers any aspect of corporate cards on how to achieve increased control and visibility and how they are being used to improve the T&E processes. Highly Commended Winner – Kwek Peck Lin, Director of Planning & Finance, Singapore University of Social Sciences with Melvyn Low, OCBC.

This is a new category for 2022 which recognises the efforts of those companies which have embarked upon a transformation of its treasury function. Perhaps this has been the result of a need to replace outdated technology, the integration of a newly acquired company or simply a need to transform the way things are done. Overall Winner – Yinson Holdings – Guillaume François Jest, Group CFO. Highly...

This is a new category for 2022 which looks at how company's have implemented a treasury related solution, or is in the process of being implemented, in a single country or up to 4 countries and the challenges they have faced. Highly Commended Winner – Hariharan Subramanian, Cognizant Technology Solutions with Mahesh Kini, J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Sinopec. Their partner, Siang H...

This category recognises the emerging cash replacement solutions such as e-cash, digital currencies (crypto-currency/bitcoin) and e-wallets. Overall Winner – Capitaland. Their partner Adrian Ong, UOB speaks about their winner collaboration and solution.

Many corporates are exploring alternative sources of funding, diversifying and/or refinancing their funding sources. With an increase in M&A activity, we have seen many different types of funding submitted, whether a single transaction, or as part of a company's overall debt strategy. Overall Winner – ST Engineering. Their partner Benjamin Quek, Bank of America speaks about their winner c...

This award is a first for Treasury Today and we believe it is worthy of this new award. This award goes to Save the Children to recognise their ongoing work in Pakistan. Overall Winner – Khuram Gondal, Country Director, Save the Children (STC) with Ricky Kaura, Standard Chartered.

Our Woman of the Year category recognises a leading corporate treasury woman who demonstrates real innovation and professional achievement. Typifying the essence of Treasury Today Asia's Women in Treasury initiative, this award goes to those who, alongside their career journey, also dedicate themselves to inspire others, giving back and using their privilege and access to help other professio...

This category recognises unique talent that is rising up the corporate treasury ranks. The individual may have excelled in a professional qualification and whose trajectory is impressive, with a bright and impactful professional future ahead of them. Perhaps a future Group Treasurer, Finance Director or CFO is identified here. Overall Winner – Gwendolyn Ng, Treasury Manager, Asia Pacific and Middl...

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 and service provider relationships. Economic turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic have certainly focused minds on the value of relationships. Overall Winner – Hologic. Their partne...

Our most prestigious and always fiercely-contested category, 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, or a broader team effort involving many disciplines across the enterprise. Overall Winner – Shell Treasury Centre East Pte Ltd, Teo Yian Ping, Regional Treasurer –...

Payments and receipts 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 (POBO) structures are a lot more common now. We also look at how companies manage their collections, including reconciliation and, as with payments, we are...

This new category addresses the emergence of digitisation. We have heard much about the fintech revolution, open banking, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, robotics, APIs, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. We look at companies which have moved beyond the 'proof of concept' stage and are now using one or more of these emerging fintech/digital solutions. Over...

Many corporates are exploring alternative sources of funding, diversifying and/or refinancing their funding sources. With an increase in M&A activity, we have seen many different types of funding submitted, whether a single transaction, or as part of a company's overall debt strategy. Overall Winner – Government of Malaysia. Their partner J.P. Morgan speaks about their winning collaborati...

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 – Inditex Group. Their partner DBS speaks a...