Treasury Talks podcast series

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.

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.

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 treasu...

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 th...

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.

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...

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.

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 2...

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.

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...

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 t...

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...

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 an...

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-Be...

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 feel...

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&qu...

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 pos...

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 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 tradition...

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 additi...

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 h...

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 s...