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.