Trade Treasury Payments announces the winners of the inaugural Corporate Excellence Awards 2026

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) has announced the winners and runners-up of its inaugural Corporate Excellence Awards, presented at a gala dinner at The Lansdowne Club in Mayfair, London, on Wednesday 7 October 2026.

The Corporate Excellence Awards were created to recognise the corporates behind excellence in trade, treasury and payments. These awards mostly recognise corporate treasury, trade and payment teams and their organisations, who make those solutions work for real-economy finance.

This year TTP received 188 submissions. Every entry was anonymised before judging and scored by members of TTP’s Global Advisory Panel, a network of more than 60 senior practitioners, against five published criteria: impact; innovation; relevance; collaboration; and sustainability.

The Editor’s Choice awards are the only awards selected by the TTP editorial team rather than by the Global Advisory Panel or TTP’s steering committee. They recognise contributions the editorial team has seen first-hand through its reporting over the past year.

The evening brought together 100 guests from more than ten countries, including around 30 banks, institutions and associations and over 30 corporates. Guests heard from members of TTP’s Editorial Board, Geoffrey Wynne and Dr Rebecca Harding, and from Professor Sarah Green of the Global Advisory Panel, who explained the judging process. Special guest Nicholas McCarthy, the first one-handed pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music, performed and spoke about what excellence really means.

This year’s winning entries ranged from global treasury centralisation and multi-billion-dollar risk management programmes to the digitalisation of Kenyan tea exports, real-time payments delivered over a single weekend, and supply chain finance programmes reaching growers and small suppliers that the market usually leaves out.

Deepesh Patel, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief at Trade Treasury Payments, said, “The corporate treasurer, the trade finance team and the payments operator are the people who make transaction banking work, and their role has never been under more pressure. These awards exist to recognise them, independently and impartially. Congratulations to every winner and runner-up.”

Joy Macknight, Transaction Banking and Payments Editor at Trade Treasury Payments, said, “Banks and fintechs win a great many awards. The corporates who make the deals work rarely do. The Corporate Excellence Awards put the corporate at the centre: the treasury, trade and payments teams who turn products into outcomes.”

TTP’s editorial team has written up every winning and runner-up entry. These stories will be published on tradetreasurypayments.com over the coming weeks.

The 2026 TTP Corporate Excellence Awards: winners and runners-up

Core Corporate Awards

• Corporate of the Year in Trade, Treasury or Payments: Vishay Intertechnology Asia Pte Ltd
• Corporate of the Year in Treasury: Essity
• Corporate of the Year in Trade: Asahi Europe & International
• Corporate of the Year in Payments: Uzum

Corporate Trade Awards

• Best Use of Supply Chain Solutions: Asahi Europe & International (winner); Octopus Energy (runner-up)
• Best Use of Working Capital Solutions: Vishay Intertechnology Asia Pte Ltd (winner); Şişecam (runner-up)
• Best ESG or Sustainable Trade Initiative: CIEL Textile (winner); ADM Agriculture (runner-up)
• Best Digital Trade Initiative: Brückner Group (winner); European Metal Recycling (EMR) Group (runner-up)

Corporate Treasury Awards

• Best Treasury Transformation Project: Essity (winner); Novartis (runner-up)
• Best Cash and Liquidity Management Solution: Newell Brands (winner); Henkel (runner-up)
• Best Treasury Transformation Initiative (Financial Risk): Bristol-Myers Squibb (winner); Louis Dreyfus Company (runner-up)
• Best Treasury Technology Solution: ASML

Corporate Payments Awards

• Best Payments Modernisation Initiative: Love’s Financial Services
• Best Payments Strategy: Uzum

Individual Recognition

• Trade Finance Leader of the Year: Lynda McGoey, Treasury Executive Managing Director, GE Vernova
• Trade Finance Leader of the Year, Emerging Markets: Rhodrick Kalumpha, Group Finance Controller, Global Tea and Commodities
• Corporate Treasurer of the Year: Robert McAnally, SVP Head of Treasury and Corporate Finance, Siemens Energy

Special Recognition: Editor’s Choice

• Banking: Lloyds
• Technology: Surecomp
• Outstanding Contributor to the Treasury Community: Meticulous Dube
• Outstanding Contributor to the Payments Community: Ruth Wandhofer
• Outstanding Contributor to the Trade Community: ITFA and IACPM

About Trade Treasury Payments

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) is an independent media and intelligence platform covering trade finance, treasury, transaction banking and payments, free for everyone to read. TTP is regulated by IPSO and ISSN certified, and its journalism is overseen by an Editorial Board of 11 and a Global Advisory Panel of more than 60 senior practitioners.