2011 Presentations
Presentations from the 16th Annual Alexander Hamilton Awards are now available for download. Click on the Company name to download a PDF of the presentation.
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| 9:40 am – 10:30 am |
Liquidity Management This category targets the areas of portfolio management, short-term investing and contingency planning for cash availability, as well as crisis management that ensures liquidity. Speakers
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| 11:00 am – 11:50 am |
Cash Management This category includes information reporting and activity relating to the collection of incoming payments (lockbox, A/R outsourcing) and the disbursement of outgoing payments (wires, ACH, all check services, AP outsourcing), as well as all security arrangements around payments. Speakers
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| 11:50 am – 12:40 pm |
Financial Risk Management Exceptional solutions for risk management involving domestic or international interest rates, foreign exchange, credit risk, counterparty risk, commodity price or country risk; the use of derivatives; or the use of capital markets to hedge a company’s financial risk exposure. Speakers
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| 1:50 pm – 2:40 pm |
Best Green Strategy Projects, programs and initiatives in which the corporate treasury or finance department is taking a leading role. These include promoting any one of the following areas or a combination: environmental awareness, conservation, social responsibility, greening the supply chain and sustainable business models. Speakers
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| 2:40 pm – 3:30 pm |
Strategic Investing & Benefits Management Innovations and improvements in investment strategies aimed at expanding the company’s intellectual property and longevity or supporting defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans, as well as solutions to other costly programs, such as healthcare and workers compensation. This can include asset allocation, investment management structure, employee investment options, administrative structure and communications programs, as well as strategies for investing in volatile markets amid regulatory constraints. Performance submissions must be compared with standard benchmarks over a minimum of three years and address the nature of the liability involved. Speakers
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| 3:50 pm – 4:40 pm |
Solution of the Year Systems and solutions, developed or customized by vendors or banks, that tackle ongoing challenges in innovative ways or offer cutting-edge solutions to new challenges, creating new opportunities. Visibility tools, exception management dashboards, data analytics, scenario testing and cloud computing are some examples. This is the only category open to vendors. Speakers
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| 4:40 pm – 5:30 pm |
Capital Management Strategy Projects that focus on the balance sheet and building the framework to manage the business, as well as long-term plans to ensure robustness and continuity of the capital structure. This can include re-investing in the business, dealing with rating agencies, dividends, share repurchases, share retention and investor relations. Speakers
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| 8:45 am – 9:35 am |
Technology Excellence This category recognizes corporate treasuries or finance departments for their creation and/or exceptional implementation of technology (which can be internally or externally developed or a combination of both) that is innovative, or solved a major problem that yielded impressive results, or is likely to establish a best practice. Projects that would fall into this category include those that add breadth and scope in solving a financial or compliance issue, in conducting electronic commerce, improving communications or analysis of financial data and information, mitigating risk, or providing strategic advantage.. Speakers
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| 9:35 am – 10:25 am |
Working Capital Management Cash flow forecasting and centralization efforts, as well as any effort that aimed at and resulted in significant working capital management efficiencies. Entries in this category can be submitted in a second, narrower category, such as cash management or liquidity management. Speakers
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| 10:45 am – 11:35 am |
Enterprise Risk Management This category encompasses innovative solutions and larger programs involving risk assessment, identification, mitigation and/or transfer when protecting a company’s business, property, supply chain, personnel, data and/or reputation. Speakers
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