Treasury Talks podcast series

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. Overall Winner...

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 collaboration an...

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...

This category looks at foreign exchange and solutions corporates are deploying to tackle the continuing challenges of currency volatility. 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 or supplier could drive the solutions here. Overall Winner – Olam International Ltd., Amit K...

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. Overall Winner – SAIC International Finance Ltd. Their partner Standard Chartered speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – SRF Limited, Sugandha Singhal, Global...

Any solution which demonstrates how the company manages or forecasts its cash is recognised here. At the heart of treasury sits cash management and “Cash is King” is a frequently used phrase. This is therefore a consistently popular category amongst our nominees. Overall Winner – Beigene, Cecilia Li, Head of Global Treasury, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Eaton Corporat...

ASAA 2021 Episode 12: Best Card/e-Cash Solution – J. P. Morgan

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. Overall Winner – Cummins Technologies India Pvt Ltd, Keirobium Dasan, ABO Treasury, in partnership with Ba...

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.

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 Associat...

Treasury solutions implemented, or in the process of being implemented, in India are showcased here. Overall Winner – Jörg Bermüller, VP, Group Treasury, Head of Cash and Risk Management – Merck KGaA, in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Highly Commended Winner – Yiyong Wu, Group Treasury Head – Xiaomi Corporation, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Jai Shukla, India Treasurer – ATC...

Here we showcase treasury solutions implemented, or in the process of being implemented, in the PRC. Winner - Vitesco Technologies Holding China Co. Ltd., Jeremy Zhu, Head of Central Finance and Controlling, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended – Aihuishou International Company Ltd.  Their partner Kyriba speaks about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly Commended – St...

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. 

This is another new category in 2021 to not only encompass cards but to recognise the emerging cash replacement solutions such as e-cash, digital currencies (crypto-currency/bitcoin) and e-wallets. The winning solution, including virtual cards, could cover any aspect of corporate cards and how they are being used to improve the T&E processes. Best e-Cash Solution Overall Winner – Deutsche...

Here we look at liquidity solutions such as cash pooling structures. Some are single country/single currency, single entity whilst some corporates have implemented multi-country/multi-currency/multi entity and even cross-currency arrangements which “follow the sun”. Overall Winner – Goodyear, Jane Hua, Treasury – Global Cash Management, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Qu...

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.

Trading internationally can be challenging and the past 12 months or so have really shone the light on supply chains. The buyer/seller relationship has never been more important and we have seen a number of innovative solutions emerge from distributor finance, pre-shipment finance and receivables discounting to forfaiting, factoring and payables finance. Overall Winner – Henkel, Sophie Yang, APAC...

A new category in 2021 and here we explore treasury solutions implemented, or in the process of being implemented, in any of the ten member countries that make up the ASEAN nations. This could be a single country solution or regional ASEAN solution. Overall Winner – Goodyear, James Ho, Regional Treasury Manager, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – China Duty Free International. The...

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.

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. Highly Commended Winner – SF Holding. Their partner Bank of China (Hong Kong) speaks about their winning solution and collaboration. Highly...

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, our judges were impressed with a ‘Smart Treasury’ solution having been developed entirely in-house. Overall Winner – Flex, Yvione Zhou, Regional Treasury Director.

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.

Overall Winner – Cell Signaling Technology, Jane Zhao, You do not need to be a large, major multinational or conglomerate to qualify, as our new category Best SME/MME Treasury Solution illustrates perfectly. Many of the solutions we see being deployed by the larger organisations are now filtering down to the SME/MME sectors. For the purposes of this category a SME is defined as employing over 100...