Awards

As a leading Chinese financial institution and one of the savviest issuers from the country, Bank of China made the most of different pockets of liquidity it had available during GlobalCapital China’s awards period, including tapping into a variety of currencies like Australian dollars, Hong Kong dollars, US dollars, euros, sterling and onshore and offshore renminbi.

BMW’s story as a renminbi bond issuer is a perfect demonstration of how much potential China’s domestic market holds when it comes to supporting the local funding needs of foreign institutions doing business in the country.

Manila-based Asian Development Bank was one of the first two foreign issuers to tap China’s onshore bond market. In 2005, ADB, together with International Finance Corp, opened the Panda bond market with a Rmb1bn ($157m) 10 year deal.

GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 19th Annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards in November.

GlobalCapital has closed the nominations stage of it annual European securitization awards — shortlists and pitched awards next

Effective risk management assumed even greater importance over the last 12 months as Asian market participants sought help navigating upheaval in global markets.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards for 2021 on Wednesday night at a gala event in London

Many law firms claim, but few can demonstrate truly global connectivity and collaboration between partners and practice areas in parallel with the provision of deep financial markets experience and expertise across transactional, product and regulatory issues.

On a number of fronts, Eurex excelled in its support of, and offering to, the derivatives market in the past year. It demonstrated its strength as Europe’s largest and one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, and an ability to innovate and push forward new segments in risk transfer markets.

Across several areas of the interest rate derivatives business, Nomura distinguished itself from the competition in the past year, not only stepping in to provide clients with crucial liquidity, but also supporting them with a valuable mix of timely and authoritative advice and market-leading structuring and execution capabilities.

According to technology consultant Celent, conventional rules-based paradigms of approaching risk and compliance obligations have given way to risk-based approaches where greater supervision intensity is placed on high risk or systemically important financial institutions, appropriate conduct, and emergent systemic risks.

Ever the powerhouse in derivatives, Société Générale CIB won Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives and Structured Products House of the Year in GlobalCapital's annual Americas awards for the industry earlier this year.