For more than two decades, the Treasury & Risk Alexander Hamilton Awards have highlighted the achievements of innovative corporate treasury, finance, and risk management teams. The technologies that these organizations utilize have changed pretty dramatically over the decades, but the creativity in leveraging available tools has not.

This year's winners in the Technology Excellence category demonstrate the ways in which technology can streamline treasury processes and create dramatic improvements in efficiency. "It's very important to challenge the norms," says Steve Huse, director of client reporting for investment firm Baird. "Treasury needs to think creatively and partner with internal colleagues and internal clients to come up with ideas for better treasury solutions, and then find a vendor that will help bring those ideas to fruition."