Adam Smith Awards Asia – winners podcast series

This is awarded to a company which is that little bit different, doesn’t quite fit one of the other categories and is recognised by our judges as a result of the specific field in which the company operates, the particular solution it has implemented or simply because it stands out as being different. Overall Winner – Olam Group. Their partner Ricky Kaura, Standard Chartered talks about their winning collaboration and solution.

This category looks at how a company has implemented a treasury related solution, or is in the process of being implemented, on a regional basis – a regional solution is defined as five countries or more. Overall Winner – Daniel Teo, Bridgestone Asia with Lillian Sim, J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – BYD Company. Their partner Amy Hu, Citi talks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Garrett Motion. Their partner Clara Wong, J.P. Morgan talks about their winning collaboration and solution.

This category looks at foreign exchange and could be the use of technology, a new process, change to a hedging strategy or a new FX requirement as a result of entering a new market or dealing with a new currency and/or client/supplier. Overall Winner – Xiaomi Corporation. Their partner Ji Yang, Citi speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Kuaishou Technology. Their partner Carol Wong, J.P. Morgan speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Nike. Their partner May May Pang, J.P. Morgan speaks about their winning collaboration and solution.

In this episode, we take a look at the overall and highly commended winners of our best digitisation solution, another new category for 2022 to address the emerging digital solutions. Perhaps the company has reengineered its processes, where digitisation is a key enabler. Perhaps the use of API's is central to the solution, or maybe the company has deployed a mobile technology solution. We have heard much about Fintech revolution, open banking, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, robotics and RPA, API's, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, but what is really happening with digitisation? Overall Winner – DTOne. Their partner Bob Stark, Kyriba talks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Nitin Sethi, Adani Digital Labs with Allan DSilva, Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Chirag Dhoot, Treasury Manager, GSK. Highly Commended Winner – TFG Marine. Their partner Siang Hui, DBS talks about their winning collaboration and solution.

This category looks at sustainability and how corporate treasury can play it's part in addressing ESG issues, climate change and CO2 emissions. Overall Winner – Bee Lin, Senior Manager, Investor Relations, Lendlease Global Commercial REIT with Melvin Dineshraj, Citi and Mark Yeo, OCBC. Highly Commended Winner – Louis Dreyfus Company. Their partner Ashish Pandey, Citi speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Purecircle. Their partner Sean Kim, Bank of America speaks about their winning collaboration and solution.

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 and ERP integration and much more. Overall Winner – Louis Khoo, Director, Kimly Construction Pte Ltd with Poh Yee Ng, UOB. Highly Commended Winner – Abbott Malaysia. Their partner Hani Abd Karim, Bank of America speaks about their winning collaboration and solution. Highly Commended Winner – Suki Teh, Senior Finance Transformation Manager, Borneo Motors with Ricky Kaura, Standard Chartered. Highly Commended Winner – e-Bullion India Pvt Ltd. Their partner Yogesh Lakhani, DBS speaks about their winning collaboration and solution.

Trading international can be challenging and the past 12 months or so has really shone a light on supply chains. The buyer seller relationship has never been more important, and we've seen a number of innovative solutions emerge from distributor finance, pre-shipment finance and receivables discounting to forfaiting, factoring and payables finance. Overall Winner – Hindustan Unilever Limited, with Rohan Kamra, C2FO. Highly Commended Winner – HCL Technologies Ltd, with Rajiv Warrier, J.P. Morgan. Highly Commended Winner – Elizabeth Heng, Director, Archipelago Rubber Trading Pte Ltd, with Poh Yee Ng, UOB.

This category is extended this year to include short, medium and long term investments that showcase how organisations have optimised and or diversified their investment portfolio, particularly important in a low or negative interest rate environment. We look at how they've addressed the trade-off between the yield, liquidity, cash preservation and counterparty risk, or perhaps consider ESG factors when investing. Overall Winner – Ying Xue, Managing Partner, InnoVen Capital with Adrian Ong, UOB. Highly Commended Winner – Royal Enfield (Eicher Motors Ltd), with Manav Khurana, C2FO.

This is a new category for 2022 which looks at how companies manage/forecast its cash, working capital and how it makes and receives payments whether in a single or multi-purpose solution. Highly Commended Winner – Ivan Tan, Managing Director, SP Digital, SP Group with Adrian Ong, UOB. Highly Commended Winner – Zhang Lin, Senior Finance Director, Zoetis with Lillian Sim, J.P. Morgan.

Our most prestigious and always fiercely-contested category. Here we recognise a corporate treasury team that has made an outstanding contribution to its organisation over the past 12-18 months. Overall Winner – Sachin Chougule, Associate Vice President, Finance & Treasurer, Infosys Ltd with Karandeep Singh Batth, Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Shoko Suzuki, Chief Transformation Officer for Unilever Marketplace (Gro 24/7) and Unilever Asia with Jason Kim, J.P. Morgan.