Congratulations to Microsoft, winner of the 2018 AlexanderHamilton Overall Excellence Award!

Every year, companies enteringinitiatives into the Alexander Hamilton Awards contest select a categoryfor each project. This year's categories are treasury transformation, liquidity management, operational risk management & insurance ,financial risk management, and technology excellence. And every year, ourjudges decide—based on the quality of entries in specificcategories—whether any one organization stands out as deserving ofan “Overall Excellence” award.

This year's judges decided to grant that honor to Microsoft,which submitted interesting and innovative projects in nearly everycategory.

On October 31, 2018, Treasury& Risk presented the Overall Excellence Award during alive webcast. The event featured a roundtable discussion inwhich George Zinn, Microsoft's corporate vice president andtreasurer (pictured at left); Damaris Sardenberg, senior financemanager; and Neil Doyle, senior credit manager, EMEA and LatAmdiscuss how Microsoft has built a world-class, leading-edgetreasury organization. An on-demand version is still available withregistration.

Where does innovation in Microsoft originate? How does thecompany empower employees to take chances and think outside thebox? Our webcast explores these and other factors underlying thesuccess of the Microsoft treasury function.