Now in their 19th year, the Alexander Hamilton Awards aredesigned to recognize companies that have taken a big leap forwardin treasury, finance, or risk management through an innovativeprocess and/or technology implementation. Winning projectsestablish the organization as a leader in treasury and finance,enabling the company to gain important new insights, achievedramatic improvements in efficiency, and/or exhibit bestpractices.

The 2014 Alexander Hamilton Awards contest is now open for submissions. This year Treasury &Risk will be recognizing winning strategies in threecategories:

• Cash Management & Liquidity Optimization.This category includes information reporting and activity relatedto the collection of incoming payments and the disbursement ofoutgoing payments, as well as portfolio management, short-terminvesting, and contingency planning for cash availability. Cashflow forecasting and centralization efforts also fall into thiscategory.
• Financial Risk Management. This categoryincludes innovative solutions for risk management involvingdomestic or international interest rates, foreign exchange,commodity price, or country risk; the use of derivatives; or theuse of capital markets to hedge a company's financial riskexposure. Innovative approaches to assessing risk when extendingcredit to customers and financial counterparties would also fallinto this category.
• Enterprise Risk Management. This categoryincludes larger programs involving risk assessment, identification,mitigation, and/or transfer when protecting a company's business,property, supply chain, personnel, data, and/or reputation.

If your organization has successfully completed a project in anyof these areas, we'd love to hear about it. Complete the AlexanderHamilton Awards entry form today.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 8,2014. Winners will be announced, and will share theirsolutions, through a series of webcasts scheduled for early2015.