CorporateTreasurer Awards 2025: Winners Spotlight

E.Sun Bank

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AWARDS

• Best Digital Solutions - Taiwan
• Best Trading Platform - APAC and Taiwan

By delivering transformative TMS solutions for corporate treasury and finance teams, GTreasury scooped awards in this category for both APAC and the Middle East.

Through hubs in Sydney, Singapore and Manila, and the strategic support it provides in the Middle East, judges acknowledged GTreasury’s focus on client proximity and service quality. And winning awards in both regions highlights the firm’s commitment to treasury technology innovation.

For example, the firm boosted its capabilities through GSmart AI, a new treasury-specific AI platform that it launched during the year. In short, it actively reduces the manual burden on treasury teams like forecasting and risk modelling, and instead enables real-time, compliant automation that enhances financial decision-making – all while maintaining full transparency and auditability of every AI-driven output.

At the same time, new expanded bank connectivity and flexible deployment models enabled GTreasury to stand out in the TMS space.

Additionally, the recent acquisition CashAnalytics has strengthened forecasting, bringing sharper insights into payment patterns and working capital performance. More specifically, with CashAnalytics, GTreasury has rapidly integrated shared capabilities and user interfaces, ensuring clients experience a unified, intuitive platform across all cash forecasting and analytics workflows.

Further, adding SmartLedger functionality gives treasury teams visibility into the payment behaviour of customers and suppliers, enabling better management of Days Payable Outstanding and Days Sales Outstanding, and driving measurable improvements in free cash flow.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, GTreasury’s TMS solutions give corporate treasury and finance teams support, secure architecture and tools designed offer access to comprehensive forecasting, liquidity and automation.

Notably, Middle East treasury teams using GTreasury have reported significant time savings in reconciliation processes, improved forecast accuracy within weeks of implementation and faster onboarding timelines compared with legacy platforms.

GTreasury

SERVICE PROVIDER AWARDS

• Best TMS Provider - APAC
• Best TMS Provider - Middle East

By delivering transformative TMS solutions for corporate treasury and finance teams, GTreasury scooped awards in this category for both APAC and the Middle East.

Through hubs in Sydney, Singapore and Manila, and the strategic support it provides in the Middle East, judges acknowledged GTreasury’s focus on client proximity and service quality. And winning awards in both regions highlights the firm’s commitment to treasury technology innovation.

For example, the firm boosted its capabilities through GSmart AI, a new treasury-specific AI platform that it launched during the year. In short, it actively reduces the manual burden on treasury teams like forecasting and risk modelling, and instead enables real-time, compliant automation that enhances financial decision-making – all while maintaining full transparency and auditability of every AI-driven output.

At the same time, new expanded bank connectivity and flexible deployment models enabled GTreasury to stand out in the TMS space.

Additionally, the recent acquisition CashAnalytics has strengthened forecasting, bringing sharper insights into payment patterns and working capital performance. More specifically, with CashAnalytics, GTreasury has rapidly integrated shared capabilities and user interfaces, ensuring clients experience a unified, intuitive platform across all cash forecasting and analytics workflows.

Further, adding SmartLedger functionality gives treasury teams visibility into the payment behaviour of customers and suppliers, enabling better management of Days Payable Outstanding and Days Sales Outstanding, and driving measurable improvements in free cash flow.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, GTreasury’s TMS solutions give corporate treasury and finance teams support, secure architecture and tools designed offer access to comprehensive forecasting, liquidity and automation.

Notably, Middle East treasury teams using GTreasury have reported significant time savings in reconciliation processes, improved forecast accuracy within weeks of implementation and faster onboarding timelines compared with legacy platforms.

OCBC

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AWARDS

• Best Digital Solutions - Singapore
• Best for FX / Hedging Solutions - APAC and Singapore
• Best for FX / Hedging Solutions - Hong Kong
• Best for Sustainable Treasury - APAC and Singapore
• Best for Sustainable Treasury - Southeast Asia
• Best Trading Platform - Southeast Asia

SERVICE PROVIDER AWARDS

• Best ESG Advisory

STRATEGIES & INITIATIVES AWARDS

• Best ESG Initiative

Judges were impressed with OCBC Bank’s achievements during the year across different parts of its business and in key markets in the region. In addition to comprehensive and award-winning digital solutions across cash management, FX and treasury, liquidity management and wealth, the bank stood out for FX and hedging, trading, sustainability solutions and ESG initiatives.

Showcasing the bank’s digital solutions, it achieved notable financial outcomes for the 12 months to June 2025, including:

• 24% year-on-year (yoy) revenue growth across all channels – platforms, mobile applications and APIs.
• Growth in total number of digital transactions of 48% yoy.
• 78% yoy revenue growth and 76% yoy growth in the number of online self-service FX transactions. A surge in online remittances from Singapore to China of 50% yoy.
• A doubling of customers’ API transactions and total notional value.

At the same time, OCBC continued to refine and roll out new digital capabilities. For example, it became the first bank in Asia Pacific (APAC) to offer instant transfers via OCBC Digital mobile app directly to users of WeChat Pay and/or Alipay wallets in China at no additional fees. It also expanded OCBC Velocity with an additional 35 exotic currencies, and completed a regional rollout of an end-to-end suite of APIs on the OCBC API Store to enable immediate settlement, improved visibility of cash flow and an easing of the burden on human resources.

Meanwhile, OCBC’s momentum in the digital FX and trading space has increased. Its FX online platform is now available 24/7 to provide non-stop coverage for clients, covering over 60 currencies.

The bank was well-positioned to capitalise on a greater desire among companies for a trusted advisor to hedge FX and interest rate exposure in a highly volatile macro environment. In particular, FX revenue and volume grew strongly across both the institutional and corporate client segments during the eligibility period. Additionally, the bank saw significant growth in the FX options market of more than 100% compared with the previous year, plus an increase in cross-border structured solutions of over 400%.

Among key initiatives during the awards year, OCBC’s Hong Kong and Singapore businesses partnered to finalise a Hong Kong dollar interest rate swap (IRS) with a Singaporean company. The bank also completed a long-dated Taiwanese dollar IRS transaction with a green energy firm based in Taiwan. And in Australia, OCBC executed four IRS transactions that were crucial for financing a transformative public-private partnership project.

Further, in response to rapidly changing market conditions, the bank employed a dynamic hedging strategy that involves continuously monitoring clients' refinancing and liabilities schedules, along with their hedging portfolios – with the goal to help them mitigate future exposure by leveraging existing positions.

In terms of its trading platform in Southeast Asia, the bank recorded some impressive results during the awards period. For example, in the SME segment, over 60% of FX transactions in the past year were done electronically between 2024 and 2025, as demand for efficiency and transparency grew.

When it comes to sustainability, OCBC continued to prioritise innovative and sustainable treasury solutions. During the awards period, it achieved its target financial performance and key performance indicators through its robust sustainable finance initiatives – across the region as a whole and, notably, in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

In 2024, for instance, the bank extended over 200 green, social and sustainability-linked loans, serving as sustainability advisors in more than 140 transactions. This led to a S$15 billion increase in our committed sustainable finance portfolio, reaching a total of S$71 billion.

Among other achievements in sustainable financing and sustainable investing were:

• Four types of sustainability-themed investment products offered across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong for retail customers.
• Total volumes of sustainability-themed products (including ESG bonds, sustainability-linked structured deposits, sustainability-linked interest rate swaps and voluntary carbon credits) transacted by corporate clients: Singapore: S$551 million, Malaysia: RM 2 million, Indonesia: IDR 36.7 billion, and Hong Kong: HK$2.2 billion.
• S$3.4 billion of ESG bonds transacted by institutional clients in Singapore and Malaysia.
• 79 ESG-themed research pieces published, consisting of weekly publications, thematic pieces, credit research, ESG podcasts and videos.

The bank also set up a carbon credit trading desk and has facilitated the trading of carbon credits and energy attribute certificates to enable companies to offset their carbon emissions and comply with regulatory requirements.

OCBC also won recognition for its leadership in ESG advisory and for ESG initiatives. Through strategic enhancements, pioneering transactions and a client-centric approach, it used its robust ESG ecosystem to support businesses of all sizes in their sustainability journeys.

The bank also partnered with the UK’s Office for Investment to drive sustainable foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK, becoming the first Singapore bank to do so.

This strategic collaboration aligns with the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which enhances trade and investment flows between the UK and APAC. OCBC will help mobilise capital from Asia to support the UK’s target of S$17 billion equivalent in green investments over the next six years in energy, transportation, infrastructure, data centres and real estate. As a result, OCBC will play a key role in financing infrastructure and energy transition projects, while its global markets team will provide end-to-end support through sustainability-linked FX and hedging solutions to facilitate cross-border, low-carbon expansion for clients.

In addition to its other achievements in terms of sustainable treasury solutions, the bank focused on enabling clients to manage financial risks while achieving ESG targets. This can be seen through its S$75 million structured derivative for OUE REIT, combining interest rate hedging with carbon credits, as well as through a S$419 million green loan for Frasers Centrepoint Trust, incorporating carbon credits to support property sustainability upgrades. 

Techcombank

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AWARDS

• Best for Sustainable Treasury - Southeast Asia (Highly Commended)

As a leading bank in Vietnam serving over 16 million retail and business customers, Techcombank had an impressive FY 2024. It achieved well-above market average year-on-year growth in Total Operating Income of 17.3% and in Profit Before Tax of 20.3%.

Notably for corporate treasury clients, Techcombank rolled out C-Cash in mid-2024, a first-of-its-kind in Vietnam. This integrated, SaaS-based solution helps corporates transform their treasury management with a pioneering platform, resolving challenges in cash flow and liquidity management for CFOs to drive sustainable growth and financial optimisation.

In its first 12 months to June 2025, C-Cash enabled 120 business groups and over 200 entities to streamline their treasury operations, enhance operational efficiency and ensure financial transparency across the organisation. Another key benefit is faster, data-driven decisions.

Overall, the solution led to sustained increases in deposit and lending balances in its first 12 months. Key successes included:

• 55% of client groups using C-Cash increased their Current Account and Savings Account (CASA) and cash flow volumes.
• 16% of C-Cash client groups were newly acquired customers for Techcombank.
• Clients digitised over 1,200 bank statements – an increase of almost eight times compared with the same period the year before.

From a talent perspective, C-Cash together with its partners launched comprehensive e-learning programmes and financial management training content in late 2024 – giving finance teams both the knowledge and tools needed to optimise treasury operations.

By expanding the market adoption of C-Cash, Techcombank has been able to further its strategy to diversify and expand its corporate client base. It now serves key areas of Vietnam’s economy, including fast-moving consumer goods, real estate, commercial, travel & leisure, technology and utilities.