Could you be one of this year’s Adam Smith Award winners?
If so, you still have the chance to take your place among the best and brightest in corporate treasury.
Nominations for the 2026 awards programme are currently open and will close at midnight on 19th March – so don’t miss your chance to join the ranks of our Adam Smith Award winners.
What are the Adam Smith Awards?
Treasury Today’s Adam Smith Awards programme has been recognising excellence in corporate treasury since 2008. Competition is fierce, with last year’s awards attracting 450 nominations from around the world.
Overall and Highly Commended Winners are invited to a celebration dinner in London, where they are invited on stage and presented with an individually engraved award. Winners’ achievements are also showcased in case studies which are published on our website.
Categories and eligibility
Our panel of judges are looking for exceptional solutions that demonstrate best practice and innovation in corporate treasury. You can nominate yourself directly – or you can give your bank or service provider permission to submit a nomination on your behalf.
This year’s programme encompasses 20 categories that recognise the broad scope of the treasurer’s role and activities, from Best Cash Management Solution and Best Payments Solution to Best IPO Listing and Best Foreign Exchange Solution.
Our categories also include the hotly contested Treasury Today’s Top Treasury Team category, as well as individual awards for A Rising Star 2026 and Corporate Treasurer of the Year 2026.
In addition, this year’s programme includes regional categories for treasury solutions in EMEA and The Americas. Solutions primarily implemented in the APAC region will be eligible for the Adam Smith Awards Asia, which will open for nominations later in the year.
Solutions can be in any currency, country or region. Only solutions implemented between 1st January 2025 and 30th April 2026 are eligible.
The full list of categories for this year’s Adam Smith Awards can be found on our website.
How to enter
If you’d like to be considered for this year’s awards, you’ll need to complete our short nomination form. Please note that nominations can be submitted in up to three categories.
To do your nomination justice, you’ll need to outline the problem, challenge or objectives you have addressed, the steps you have taken to address them, and how you have harnessed best practice and innovation. Make sure you tell us about the qualitative and quantitative benefits you’ve achieved along the way.
You may have had support from one or more partners – but the main focus of the nomination should be on your efforts, initiatives and achievements as a treasury team.
We welcome entries from organisations of all sizes, so don’t be deterred from entering if you feel your company doesn’t fit a particular profile. And please do feel free to provide additional documentation to support your submission.
For more information, you can request our nomination guide.
To our Middle Eastern community, if you require an extension to the deadline due to recent events, please contact awards@treasurytoday.com by 19th March to discuss.
At a glance
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Nominations close at midnight on 19th March.
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Winners will be announced on 5th May at 14:00 BST/09:00 EDT/15:00 CEST. You can register now to join us for the live announcement.
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Winners and their partners will be invited to a black-tie celebration dinner in London in June to receive their individually engraved awards.
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Winning solutions will be showcased in case studies that will be published on our website later this year.
