We are pleased to announce the borrower nominees of this year's GlobalCapital Bond Market Awards and Dinner.
Below is a full list of the awards for the best borrowers in the MTNs, emerging, FIG, SSA, corporate, high yield and SRI/green bond markets.
The dinner will be held on May 20 at London Guildhall.
You can download a PDF of the nominations on the right hand side of the screen.
MTNs Nominations
Most impressive MTN borrower
KfW
Lloyds Bank
World Bank
Most impressive sub-sovereign borrower, MTNs
Communauté Française de Belgique
State of North Rhine-Westphalia
State of Saxony-Anhalt
Most impressive sovereign, supranational or agency borrower, MTNs
Kommunalbanken
Municipality Finance
World Bank
Most impressive emerging markets borrower, MTNs
Akbank
Garanti Bank
Qatar National Bank
Most impressive corporate borrower, MTNs
BMW
Toyota
Volkswagen
Most impressive financial institution borrower, MTNs
BPCE
Lloyds Bank
Rabobank
Most innovative issuer, MTNs
Lloyds Bank
Rabobank
Swedish Export Credit Corporation
Most improved issuer, MTNs
Akbank
Macquarie Bank
Most flexible issuer, MTNs
Lloyds Bank
Rabobank
Most impressive structured MTN issuer
Lloyds Bank
Rabobank
World Bank
Emerging Markets Nominations
Most impressive emerging markets debut
Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
The Republic of Azerbaijan
The Republic of Kenya
Most impressive global emerging markets borrower
Petróleos Mexicanos
Republic of Turkey
Turkiye Garanti Bankasi
United Mexican States
Most impressive Latin America borrower
Cemex
Petróleos Mexicanos
United Mexican States
Most impressive CEEMEA borrower
Akbank
Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
The Republic of Turkey
Most impressive Middle East borrower
Emirates NBD
Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
First Gulf Bank
Most impressive Africa borrower
The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
The Republic of Kenya
The Republic of Senegal
Most impressive Central or Eastern Europe borrower
Montenegro
The Republic of Bulgaria
The Republic of Slovenia
Most impressive emerging market corporate borrower
Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
OCP Group
Petróleos Mexicanos
Most impressive emerging market financial institution borrower
Emirates NBD
First Gulf Bank
VakifBank
Most impressive emerging market sovereign borrower
Montenegro
The Republic of Turkey
United Mexican States
Most impressive sukuk borrower
Emaar Malls Group
The Republic of Turkey
Saudi Electricity Company
Most impressive CEEMEA funding official
Laszlo Buzas, The Republic of Hungary
Cagatay Imirgi, The Republic of Turkey
Best ratings agency for emerging market credits
Fitch Ratings
Moody’s Investors Service
Standard & Poor’s
FIG Nominations
Most impressive financial institutions funding official
Nadine Fedon, Crédit Agricole
Sjaak-Jan Baars, Rabobank
Erik Schotkamp, BBVA
Overall most innovative FIG borrower
Crédit Agricole
Lloyds
Santander
Rabobank
Most impressive FIG issuer of senior unsecured debt
Rabo
Crédit Agricole
Nordea
Most impressive FIG issuer of floating rate senior unsecured debt
Rabobank
Crédit Agricole
BNP Paribas
Most impressive FIG issuer of hybrid capital
Crédit Agricole
Nordea
Standard Chartered
Most impressive FIG issuer of subordinated debt (ex-hybrid capital)
Crédit Agricole
BPCE
Santander
Most impressive FIG borrower for liability management
Lloyds
Crédit Agricole
BNP Paribas
Corporate Nominations
Most impressive investment grade corporate issuer
Coca-Cola
Total
Volkswagen
Most impressive investment grade corporate funding team
BMW
BP
Volkswagen
Most impressive investment grade corporate funding official
Gary Admans, BP
Andrew Efiong, Heathrow
Kai Otto, Volkswagen
Best debut corporate bond issuer
Apple
Infineon
Sky
Most innovative investment grade corporate issuer
Coca-Cola
GDF Suez
Volkswagen
Most impressive corporate hybrid issuer
Bayer
Total
Volkswagen
Best non-European issuer in European currencies
APT Pipelines
AT&T
Coca-Cola
Best unrated corporate issuer
Air France-KLM
Pirelli
UCB
Best rating agency for investment grade corporate bonds
Fitch
Moody’s
Standard & Poor’s
High Yield Nominations
Best funding team at a high yield issuer
Fresenius
Liberty Global
Schaeffler
Most impressive high yield issuer in dollars
Altice/Numericable
Schaeffler
Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Most impressive high yield issuer in European currencies
GTech/IGT
Lindorff
Merlin Entertainments
Picard Surgelés
Schaeffler
Wind Telecomunicazioni
Most impressive LBO-related bond funding
AAG
Gea Heat Exchangers
Keepmoat
Lindorff
Picard Surgelés
Siemens Audiology
SIG Combibloc
Best private equity firm at using the high yield bond market
Bain
Blackstone
CVC
EQT
Onex
TDR
Triton
SSA Nominations
Most impressive funding team at an agency: explicit government guarantee
KfW
OeKB
Rentenbank
Most impressive funding official at an agency: explicit government guarantee
Philippe Eberschweiler, Unédic
Stefan Goebel, Rentenbank
Horst Seissinger, KfW
Most impressive funding team at an agency: implicit government guarantee
Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten
Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale
Kommunalbanken
Most impressive funding official at an agency: implicit government guarantee
Thomas Møller, KBN
Philippe Noël, Cades
Bart van Dooren, BNG
Most impressive sovereign funding team
Spanish Treasury
Swedish National Debt Office
United Kingdom DMO
Most impressive sovereign funding official
Maria Cannata, Italian Treasury
Anne Leclercq, Belgian Debt Agency
Robert Stheeman, UK DMO
Most impressive funding team at a supranational: dollars
EIB
IADB
World Bank
Most impressive funding team at a supranational: euros
EFSF/ESM
EIB
European Union
Most impressive funding official at a supranational: dollars
Sandeep Dhawan, EIB
Laura Fan, IADB
George Richardson, World Bank
Most impressive funding official at a supranational: euros
Carlos Ferreira da Silva, EIB
Siegfried Ruhl, ESM
Magnus Sandin, Council of Europe Development Bank
Most impressive funding team at a region
State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Province of Ontario
Province of Quebec
Most impressive funding official at a region
Alain Bélanger, Province of Quebec
Axel Bendiek, NRW
Jim Devine, Province of Ontario
Most impressive funding team overall
EFSF/ESM
KfW
World Bank
Most impressive funding official overall
Eila Kreivi, EIB
George Richardson, World Bank
Robert Stheeman, UK DMO
Most improved market profile
African Development Bank
Portuguese Republic
FMO
Pioneer: best borrower at breaking open new markets
EIB
International Finance Corporation
World Bank
Rising star funding official
Marcin Bill, IFC
Felix Grote, Council of Europe
Otto Weyhausen-Brinkmann, KfW
SRI/Green Bond Nominations
Overall most impressive SRI or green bond issuer
EIB
KfW
World Bank
Overall most impressive SRI or green bond funding official
Laura Fan, IADB
Heike Reichelt, World Bank
Aldo Romani, EIB