FTA's 33rd Annual Conference 2020

CONFIRMED SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

Earlytrade

Earlytrade is the industry standard in supply chain health. Assisting companies to improve their payment practices, Earlytrade provides a diverse portfolio of products to help companies manage their working capital, including:

Australia's largest early payment marketplace with over 40,000 suppliers participating;
Ethical working capital funding options that offer unique alternatives to supply chain financing; and a
Verification service that helps companies intelligently identify and verify small businesses in the supply chain in order to efficiently allocate working capital to these suppliers while complying with new payment term legislation

Website: www.earlytrade.com/

CBA

The Commonwealth Bank (ASX:CBA) is one of Australia’s leading providers of personal banking, business and institutional banking and share broking services. With a proud history spanning more than a century, the Group’s purpose is to improve the financial wellbeing of its customers and communities. The Commonwealth Bank is Australia’s leader in digital banking and maintains the largest branch network across the country. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia the Bank operates brands including Bankwest in Australia and ASB in New Zealand.

For more information on Commonwealth Bank, visit www.commbank.com.au/institutional .

EXHIBITOR AND FOCUS GROUP

ION Treasury

ION Treasury, a division of ION Group, is the world’s leading provider of treasury and risk management solutions. Over 50,000 ION Treasury users are driving treasury transformation for their organizations. Our innovative solutions deliver automation, transparency, and control to companies of all shapes and sizes empowering the community to achieve more. One size does not fit all. As treasury organizations vary in size and complexity, ION Treasury offers choice. Based on need, customers can choose from the broadest portfolio of treasury management systems, including City Financials, IT2, ITS, Openlink, Reval, Treasura, and Wallstreet Suite. We also offer value added solutions that complement and integrate with all our treasury products. Through our portfolio of world class treasury solutions, continuous product innovation, and unmatched treasury expertise, we partner with our customers for life.

Website: https://iongroup.com/ion-treasury/

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

Citi in Australia

As part of one of the world's largest financial services companies, with a presence in nearly 100 countries, Citi Australia has been providing financial services to Australian consumers, corporations, institutions and governments for more than 30 years. Recognised for its innovative range of global products and services, Citi today counts more than one million Australians and one thousand local corporate and institutional clients as valued customers.

Citi's two major business divisions, Global Consumer Bank and Institutional Clients Group, operate in Australia. Citi's Institutional Clients Group includes banking, capital markets and advisory, markets and securities services and treasury and trade solutions. It is one of the few banking groups in Australia with a full range of services and the ability to tap capital and expertise around the world.

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VIRTUAL PLATFORM AND GENERAL PARTNER

ETOS

ETOS is Australasia’s leading provider of outsourced middle and back office treasury services. During the recent and on-going COVID-19 pandemic, ETOS has supported it’s clients, and taken on additional clients in supporting their successful transition to a work-at-home environment, while providing improved controls, transparency and eliminating key man risk across middle and back office processes. With people in Auckland and Sydney, we deliver dedicated treasury expertise and best practice solutions to a wide range of private, publicly listed and government-owned corporations that are actively managing financial market risk.

Website: https://etos.co.nz

HAPPY HOUR PARTNER

BANK OF CHINA

As a branch of the 4th largest bank globally, Bank of China Limited Sydney Branch was the first Chinese bank to establish operations in Australia. Since resuming operations in 1985, BOC Sydney is now a dynamic and leading banking institution nationwide and offering a diverse range of financial service and products. As the only Chinese bank licenced to service both wholesale and retail customers, BOC Sydney is market leader in its own right and consistently ranked as a valuable partner for Australia’s corporations and financial institutions to manage liquidity and risk as well as to grow business into the globe.

Website: https://www.bankofchina.com/au/

EXHIBITORS

NAB

We’re a global business specialising in servicing and managing the relationships with corporate Australia in the public and private sectors. We connect Australian and New Zealand borrowers and investors into Asia, London and New York and international investment back into Australia and New Zealand.We support Australian businesses’ funding needs that contribute to economic growth, job creation and a better quality of life for individuals and communities. Our trading and research capabilities for consumers, small business and larger corporate customers in traded markets – including fixed income, money markets, credit, derivatives, currencies and commodities – support their investment strategies locally and globally.We have been backing Australian business for more than 150 years. Everything we do supports our Group vision to be Australia and New Zealand’s most respected bank.

GTreasury

GTreasury helps treasury teams become centers of strategic insight that drive decision making and reduce corporate risk. Our integrated SaaS-based treasury management platform offers seamless connectivity and unparalleled visibility into any combination of liquidity, cash forecasting, payments, financial instruments, risk, accounting, banking and hedge accounting activities. With world-class development and implementation teams, GTreasury is committed to meeting the needs of strategic treasury now and into the future. Headquartered in Chicago with offices serving EMEA (London) and APAC (Sydney), GTreasury’s global community includes more than 750 customers and 30+ industries reaching 160+ countries worldwide.

Website: http://gtreasury.com

About SWIFT

SWIFT is a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance.

Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. While SWIFT does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardised financial messages in a reliable way, thereby supporting global and local financial flows, as well as trade and commerce all around the world.

As their trusted provider, we relentlessly pursue operational excellence; we support our community in addressing cyber threats; and we continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies. Our products and services support our community’s access and integration, business intelligence, reference data and financial crime compliance needs. SWIFT also brings the financial community together – at global, regional and local levels – to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest or concern. SWIFT’s strategic five year plan, SWIFT2020, challenges SWIFT to continue investing in the security, reliability and growth of its core messaging platform, while making additional investments in existing services and delivering new and innovative solutions.

Headquartered in Belgium, SWIFT’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. SWIFT’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.

About SWIFT for Corporates
SWIFT for Corporates equips corporates with tools and services to run their treasury operations efficiently, control their cash and risk, and support their business evolution.

Discover the value of working with SWIFT
For more information about the SWIFT network and the solutions designed to support your treasury transformation: visit us at www.swift.com/corporates, contact us at swiftforcorporates@swift.com, join us on LinkedIn: SWIFT for Corporates (Official Group)

Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide has helped investors fund a century of growth and make important credit judgments with confidence.

Website: https://www.fitchratings.com/

FIS

FIS offers leading liquidity and risk management solutions supporting the treasury and finance ecosystem for corporations, insurance companies and the public sector. The solutions encompass treasury and risk management, payments centralisation and standardisation, managed bank connectivity, reconciliation, credit and collections management, commodity risk management and financial close management. The solutions help consolidate data from multiple in-house systems, drive workflow and provide connectivity to a broad range of trading partners including banks, SWIFT, credit data providers, FX platforms, money markets, and market data. The technology is supported by a full range of services delivered by domain experts, including managed cloud services, treasury operations management, SWIFT administration, managed bank connectivity and bank onboarding. FIS’ solutions can be deployed in SaaS, public cloud or on-premise environments. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.

Website:

https://www.fisglobal.com/en/corporate-solutions

LYGON

Lygon represents new financial markets infrastructure at the crossroad between finance and technology - an industry solution for bank guarantees. Lygon utilises the benefits of blockchain technology to completely digitise the paper-based, decades-old bank guarantee process end-to-end. Delivering on reduced fraud and operational risk, increased tracking and reporting whilst standardising the process for beneficiaries, applicants and issuers. Lygon is a total collaborative effort by ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Scentre Group and IBM who each have brought together their deep understanding of industry processes to design the Lygon platform.