Treasury Talks podcast series

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 impl...

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...

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 getti...

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.

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 curre...

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 techno...

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 on...

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.

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.

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 c...

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...

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 am...

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.

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 an...