Best Investment Strategy

Cash & Liquidity Management (Inc. payments and collections)

This award celebrates the heart of treasury achievement, so whether you’ve created a solution that has given your organisation greater visibility over its cash flows, made great leaps forward in your forecasting, or you’ve set up a new liquidity structure that is giving your team the edge, we want your efforts to be recognised.

Corporate Finance and Funding

It’s been a hard couple of years for most businesses and we know treasurers have pulled out all the stops to ensure the right funding is in place. We want to hear from you, whether you’ve got results via traditional or alternative routes, an enhanced approach to old ways or through something entirely new. So tell us all about your trail-blazing single transaction or your whole new approach to debt.

Editor’s Choice Special Awards

Sometimes a body of work, the people behind it, and the results achieved, just go beyond all expectations. We’ll consider every entrant to this year’s Awards for this very special category. If you’re our 2021 winner you will have made a lasting impression on your organisation, your peers and the industry – and you deserve to be celebrated!

Risk Management

Treasurers consistently place risk at the top of their agenda so now it’s time to be recognised for your efforts in this most challenging of spaces. It’s a category covering a wide range, from traditional financial risks to newer threats such as cyber and geo-political risk and, of course, health. We want to heart about how you are tackling the risks impacting your organisation, and the successes you’ve had.

Treasury Team of the Year

This award is inspired by the outstanding teamwork we see throughout the year at TMI. If you feel you have been part of a pioneering treasury team, built strong connections with other functions, worked together to overcome adversity, or been the centre of a transformative event in your organisation, this award recognises the power of teamwork.

Treasury Technology

Technology has become one of the key enablers for treasury. Whether you’ve completely re-engineered your processes and implemented an enterprise-wide core system and supporting architecture with external partners, created a unique transformational solution in-house, or pushed the envelope with the cutting edge of technology, this award is about celebrating your success with technology.

Treasury4Good Corporate – Best Ethical Investment Initiative

Ethical investing isn’t just for the retail space. Corporates are now increasingly aware of where they park their cash and for this Award we’re looking to hear from treasury pioneers who are championing ethical investments.

Treasury4Good Corporate – Best Sustainable Finance Project

From green bonds to positive impact loans and green RCFs, this Award is for those corporates using sustainable finance to make a difference to their organisation and the world around them.

Treasury4Good Corporate – Best Treasury Diversity & Inclusion Drive

Does your treasury team have a great mix of demographics? Have you gone out of your way to be more inclusive in your hiring? Are you championing LGBT+ initiatives in the workplace? This award recognises those treasury teams actively supporting diversity and inclusion – in every sense.

Treasury4Good Corporate – Top Treasury CSR/ESG Award

For this Award, the judges will be looking for a treasury team that has truly gone over and above to embed CSR into treasury processes. We’re looking for a treasury team that lives and breathes CSR and is always looking for new ways to support their organisation’s CSR goals.

Working Capital Management

This is the award that demonstrates treasury’s prowess at the sharp end because without the right skills in this space, it’s game over. We want to know how you’ve made a positive difference to the cash flow cycle of your organisation, whether that’s with an innovative AP/AR-based programme, a technological response to reconciliations and cash application, the adoption of a progressive supplier finance scheme, or an entirely new approach to this essential discipline.

Best Fintech Collaboration

Banks and fintechs have long-since acknowledged that each brings different yet valuable contributions to the development of customer solutions. Whether established long-term collaborations or newly forged, and whether you’re pushing the boundaries of AI, RPA, APIs, blockchain or data analytics, or even a technology yet to be explored, if together you have created something special, we want you to share a platform with your special partners and celebrate your successes.

Cash & Liquidity Management (includes payments and collections)

Helping clients to achieve superior visibility over their cash, providing solutions that deliver new and valuable analytical depth, delivering professional advisory services that are second-to -none: these all help cement corporate relationships in the cash and liquidity management space. Whether you’re taking a technological or service-based approach, or a combination of both, let us know and let your work be feted!

Supply Chain Financing (includes trade finance and working capital finance)

Working for the benefit of buyers and suppliers helps to forge stronger bonds in supply chain relationships, and it is this that keeps the wheels of commerce turning. Tell us your story, and how you have helped progress this important aspect of trade development. Whether you are removing cumbersome paperwork with innovative blockchain-based solutions, or enabling clients to expand into new territories and buyer/supplier bases, we want to hear from you.

Innovation in Crypto Assets

Innovation in the Short-Term Investment Ecosystem

Demonstrating true innovation in the challenging short-term investment space is no easy feat. Wherever you are located and whatever your size, if you’re an investment manager or technology provider and you feel you have made a significant breakthrough, whatever it is, we want to hear from you.

Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable solution

As the old adage goes, nothing is sold until it is paid for, and this award picks out the best solutions on both sides of the deal. Make your mark in this intensely competitive field by scooping this accolade.

Bank Connectivity

Whether its via innovative use of APIs, SWIFT, host-to-host or e-banking, here’s your chance to let the world know how and why your bank connectivity is second to none.

Best Innovation Lab Solution

You’ve seen the Innovation Lab; it’s about solutions that offer something new. This award tries to do the impossible by picking a winner…

Cash / Treasury Management System

Automation, integration, simplification, centralisation, localisation, flexibility; whatever your drivers for success, the cash and treasury management system that demonstrates in abundance what its users want and need has the best chance of taking this coveted award.

Customer Experience

If technology has a purpose it is surely to make carrying out a process ‘better than it was before’. If you have a story to tell about how technology has helped you do your job more efficiently and effectively let us know.

Emerging Player (launched within 24 months)

Technology presents a fast-paced world for its participants and standing still is not an option. This award seeks out the latest players and ideas so regardless of functionality and target user, bring your efforts to the fore and tell us how you’re making the grade.

Mobile Technology Solution

The pandemic has accelerated the need for accessibility, simplicity and security so we are looking for solutions that give treasurers the means to do new kinds of business on the move with confidence, both now and in the future.

Portal Technology

Multi-banking platforms are for initiating transactions and monitoring and reporting activities from a single sign-in, so whether you’re operating cross-border or domestically, consolidating cash positions or trading FX, we’re seeking the solution that adds most value for treasurers. If that’s you, then this award is yours for the taking.

Risk Management Solution

As the risks that treasury faces grow in intensity and complexity, so the role of technology in helping mitigate those risks increases. We’re looking for innovative responses that can help organisations carry on doing what they do with security and ease.

Solution Innovation

Whether it’s a grand scheme involving multiple products and partners, or a seemingly simple technological response, this award will pick out the most inventive and effective answers to treasury problems. Expect a no-holds barred demonstration of ingenuity.

Trade Finance Solution

Trade is what has kept the world turning for millennia, and funding solutions are an essential part of the process. As participants increasingly draw upon technology to speed up, secure and ease the workflow, we’re looking for solutions that surprise us while signalling the end of paper!

Best Community Engagement Project

Best Employee Engagement Initiative

Best ESG Liquidity Solution

Best Global Bank for CSR/ESG

Best Global Bank for Diversity & Inclusion

Best Treasury4Good Innovator (covering CSR/ESG/D&I)

Best Treasury4Good Technology Solution

Have you taken your treasury paperless by embracing digital solutions? Or cut down on the department’s electricity consumption by using cloud computing instead of on-premise technology? Or perhaps you’ve introduced a portal to track CSR metrics and help with non-financial reporting? Whichever route you’ve chosen, this Award recognises treasury’s efforts to leverage technology as a CSR tool.

Outstanding Treasury4Good Leader (personal award)

Is there someone in your treasury team who is a true CSR champion? Or someone in another company’s treasury who you’d like to nominate? This personal award recognises the efforts of those people who go the extra mile when it comes to CSR.

Treasury4Good Corporate Awards

See Corporate Recognition Awards for full list