With treasurers and their organisations focusing more closely than ever on ESG and sustainability, it’s important to pin down what ESG really means and how treasurers can tackle this issue.

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Here we look at sustainable projects including the finance related to the mitigation of and/or adaptation to climate change/CO2 emissions as well as investment strategies which incorporate ESG/CSR factors.

Episode 21: Best ESG Solution

Overall Winner, Michael Shuttleworth, Aspen Pharmacare, in partnership with BNP Paribas. Highly Commended Winner, Chigbo Enenmo, Nigeria LNG Ltd. Highly Commended Winner, Elisha Dhenanath, International Breweries Plc, in partnership with Citi.

Episode 20: Best in Class Treasury Solution in Africa

During a virtual Leaders’ Workshop “Inclusion in Action” supported by J.P. Morgan, panellists discussed the importance of mentors and role models, tying inclusion and diversity progress to performance targets, and the importance of managing inclusion in real-time.

J.P. Morgan Podcast

This category addresses any corporate treasury solution in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Regional Centre of Excellence is one company’s solution, with another focused on the challenges in Brazil.

Episode 19: Best in Class Treasury Solution in Latin America/Caribbean

Technology is a key component in many of the submissions we receive and is always a hotly contested category. We see projects ranging from the use of APIs and RPA to full-blown treasury technology transformation involving TMS/ERP integration and much more.

Episode 18: Harnessing the Power of Technology

Our judges wanted specifically to recognise the challenges posed by the coronavirus or COVID-19 with this new category. This pandemic has created unprecedented times, with supply chains being adversely impacted, teams having to adopt entirely new working practices, relationships with internal as well as external parties changing beyond recognition, cashflow coming under the spotlight like never before and the entire corporate treasury environment has been turned on its head. We look at how our Overall Winner in this category responded.

Episode 17: Best Crisis Management Solution

Any solution which demonstrates how the company manages/forecasts its cash is recognised here. It could be a simple single country/single currency/single bank solution, or a multi-country/multi-currency/multi-bank solution and might involve the use of an in-house bank or virtual accounts. Always a popular category amongst our corporate treasury universe.

Episode 16: Best Cash Management Solution

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important focus for corporate treasurers – and this was the focus of a recent virtual roundtable hosted by Treasury Today and Standard Chartered. A panel of expert speakers discussed the impact of COVID-19 on sustainability initiatives, the benefits of sustainable supply chain finance initiatives, and the impact of regulation on this space.

Standard Chartered - Building a sustainable future

Here we look at liquidity solutions such as cash pooling structures. Some are single country/single currency, whilst some corporates have implemented multi-country/multi-currency and even cross-currency arrangements which ‘follow the sun’.

Episode 15: Best Liquidity Management Solution

Cards are no longer just a piece of plastic; corporate cards have become an integral part of the cash management set-up. Here we see how cards are being used to improve the T&E processes.

Episode 14: Best Card Solution

Cyber-security continues to be a major issue for companies of all shapes and sizes, with many household names having been victims of cyber-crime in recent months. We look here at how organisations are mitigating the threat of a cyber-attack.

Episode 13: Best Cyber-Security Solution

This category incorporates any relationship (internal as well as external) managed by the treasury function, such as investor relations, employee relations, ratings agencies and procurement, in addition to the core bank(s)/other service provider(s) relationships. Economic turmoil and the recent coronavirus pandemic has certainly focused minds on the value of relationships.

Episode 12: First Class Relationship Management

In this category we showcase how companies have addressed the trade-off between yield, liquidity, cash preservation and counterparty risk. AAA-rated money market funds are frequently involved, with CNAV, VNAV or Low Volatility Net Asset Value (LVNAV) funds included.

Episode 11: Best Short-term Investing Solution

This category addresses any corporate treasury solution in the Middle East region. From the UAE to Saudi Arabia, we see some impressive solutions.

Episode 10: Best in Class Treasury Solution in the Middle East

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