For more than 20 years, the Alexander Hamilton Awards fromTreasury & Risk have recognized corporate treasury,finance, and risk management teams that have pursued innovativeideas, resulting in impressive benefits for their organization.Speaking with the professionals who drove the award-winninginitiatives is always an honor and a learning experience.

This year's winners in the Technology Excellence categorydemonstrate the benefits an organization can achieve by throughwell-conceived and well-executed technology initiatives.

• Silver Award: Newell Brands integrated a treasury managementsystem, currency management solution, and trading platform toachieve end-to-end automation of treasury operations.
• Gold Award: To simultaneously improve workingcapital management and customer service, Anthem, Inc. revamped its premium-paymentprocesses and created a payments center for excellence.

Both of these projects represent the benefits a company canachieve when the treasury team thinks outside the box and exploresthe full process benefits of technology solutions.

Congratulations to both organizations! Thank you to the judgesof this year's competition, who selected these two projects from aslate of excellent entries: Jean-Francois Heitz, former deputy CFOand treasurer of Microsoft; Craig Jeffery, managing partner ofStrategic Treasurer; Marie Hollein, former president and CEO ofFinancial Executives International; and Betty Hwang, managingdirector in Deloitte's Risk & Financial Advisory practice.

Finally, thank you very much to Euler Hermes, Citi, andTreasuryXpress for sponsoring this year's Alexander Hamilton Awardsprogram.

See also:

• “How to Build an Innovative TreasuryFunction”: On-demand webcast honoring 2018 Alexander Hamilton Overall ExcellenceAward winner—Microsoft
• 2018 Alexander Hamilton Awards in LiquidityManagement
• 2018 Alexander Hamilton Awards in Operational RiskManagement & Insurance
• 2018 Alexander Hamilton Awards in TreasuryTransformation