For more than 20 years, the Alexander Hamilton Awards from Treasury & Risk have recognized corporate treasury, finance, and risk management teams that have pursued innovative ideas, resulting in impressive benefits for their organization. Speaking with the professionals who drove the award-winning initiatives is always an honor and a learning experience.

This year's winners in the Technology Excellence category demonstrate the benefits an organization can achieve by through well-conceived and well-executed technology initiatives.

• Silver Award: Newell Brands integrated a treasury management system, currency management solution, and trading platform to achieve end-to-end automation of treasury operations.
• Gold Award: To simultaneously improve working capital management and customer service, Anthem, Inc. revamped its premium-payment processes and created a payments center for excellence.

Both of these projects represent the benefits a company can achieve when the treasury team thinks outside the box and explores the full process benefits of technology solutions.