Deadline extension!  

Treasury & Risk has just extended the deadline for nominations for our 2022 Alexander Hamilton Awards. If you are a corporate treasury, finance, and/or risk management professional who was involved in an innovative project that substantially improved the operations or strategic contribution of your function, you can enter by completing the online submission form available here. Or learn more about the awards process here.

But don’t delay; the deadline is still coming up fast. Get your submission in by Friday, September 10, 2021.

Meanwhile, Treasury & Risk continues to present our 2021 Alexander Hamilton Awards.

2020 was a year unlike any other, yet treasury organizations found many ways to innovate. In fact, the pressures that the Covid-19 crisis exerted on corporate liquidity, debt covenants, the supply chain, and other areas of business and financial management drove many treasury groups to explore solutions they might not have considered in a more typical business climate. That is the story of the 2021 Alexander Hamilton Awards.

Treasury & Risk is now presenting the 2021 awards via a series of articles and webcasts. We have already presented five categories:

Treasury Transformation

• Bandwidth: GOLD award for — Increasing Treasury’s Bandwidth by Harnessing Accessible Tech
• Microsoft: SILVER award for — Efficient Access Management for Bank Portals Around the World
• Salesforce: BRONZE award for — A New Approach to Invoicing Forecasts
• BDP International: HONORABLE MENTION for — Cash Visibility That Supports Global Growth
• And view our 2021 Treasury Transformation Awards on-demand webcast

Technology Excellence

• HCSC: GOLD award for — When Technology Excellence Drives People and Process Improvements
• Microsoft: SILVER award for — Automation Streamlines Bank Statement Management
• CUNA Mutual: BRONZE award for — Payment System Integration via APIs
• And view our 2021 Technology Excellence Awards on-demand webcast

Working Capital Management: Partner Impact

• Intel: Intel for the ‘Win-Win’
• Walmart: Walmart Builds a Working Capital Option to Support Small Suppliers
• And view our 2021 Working Capital Management: Partner Impact Awards on-demand webcast.

Liquidity Management

• Charter Hall: GOLD award for — Virtual Account Structure Streamlines Liquidity Management
• Holiday Inn Club Vacations: SILVER award for — Liquidity Management Heads off the Beaten Path
• And view our 2021 Liquidity Management Awards on-demand webcast

Best Practices in Restricted/Emerging Markets

• Microsoft: GOLD award for — Standardizing Customization for Global Financing Solutions

Additional Treasury & Risk webcasts and articles over the course of 2021 will celebrate innovative initiatives in two additional categories, plus an Overall Excellence Award winner. (Note that winners in each category that has not yet been presented are listed alphabetically. Treasury & Risk will announce the “color” of award that each organization has won when presenting the awards in that category.) The winners are:

Risk Management

• AARP
• eBay
• Microsoft

Working Capital & Payments

• eBay
• Microsoft
• Sodexo
• Woodstream Corporation

Thank you to our judges—Jean-Francois Heitz, Erik Smolders, Craig Jeffery, and Marie Hollein—for your work selecting our 2021 winners among all the entries, and to our 2021 program sponsors: ICD, C2FO, Kyriba, GTreasury, and FinLync. Congratulations to all our winners!