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.

Overall Winner – Esperanza Casillas Arana, AbbVie Inc, in partnership with Citi. Highly Commended Winner – Hallvard Bokn Eikeland, Equinor ASA, in partnership with Citi. 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.

The way that companies use commercial cards has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 crisis – but while T&E volumes have inevitably fallen, the use of cards for B2B spend is on the rise, explain HSBC's Jo Towers and Brian Tomkins.

We rarely give APIs, the hidden technology that allows multiple applications to interact, exchange and obtain data, a second thought. Yet they are crucial tools enabling a cost effective and frictionless business experience that allows treasury to connect across the business and with banking partners, explains Nadya Hijazi, Global Head of Business Banking Digital at HSBC.

Abraham Geldenhuys, Kongsberg Automotive, in partnership with Bellin and J.P. Morgan, Kevin Dillon and Colum Lane, Pfizer, Highly Commended – Frank Barbara, Blackstone, in partnership with Bank of America, Highly Commended – Greg Yen, United Talent Agency, in collaboration with City National Bank. 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.

On 17th September, Treasury Today and State Street Global Advisors hosted the next in their series of Future Treasurer roundtables. This virtual event included an insightful look at the evolving role of the treasurer, as well as the challenges brought by recent months and how new working conditions may have affected progress made in furthering diversity and inclusion.

Overall Winner – Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Sasha De Gracia, in partnership with TreasuryXpress. 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.

Highly Commended Winner – Alcon Inc., Brice Zimmermann, in partnership with Citi. 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.

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.

Goodyear, Rene Krack, Sysco Corporation, Carrie Reyna, in partnership with J.P. Morgan, General Electric, Manish Joshi. 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'.