Covered Bond Awards 2024
The GlobalCapital Covered Bond awards celebrate the leading deals, banks and issuers for their achievements in the covered bond market. The awards are unique, in that the winners are decided through an industry vote. This means that the GlobalCapital awards reflect those who are considered to be the very best by their peers, clients and counterparts.
KEY DATES
Nominations open: May 15 2024
Nominations close: May 29 2024
Shortlist published/voting opens: June 5 2024
Voting closes: July 5 2024
Winners announced: September 12 2024
As in previous years, the awards will be decided on a two-step process.
The first stage is the call for nominations. Market participants are invited to tell us about the deals, issuers and banks that deserve recognition during the awards period — August 2023 to July 2024. Up to three nominations for each award category listed below can be selected by anyone with a strong interest in covered bonds.
These recommendations will be used to created a shortlist, which will be opened to a poll in which members of the covered bonds community will be invited to vote on the winners throughout June.
Rules of the Poll
- One vote is allowed per institution
- Block voting — or voting for one institution across all categories it has been nominated for — is not permitted.
- You may not vote for your own institution
- The Asset Management, Treasury and Investment Banking businesses within the same group can vote respectively as investor, issuer and lead manager — provided they meet the eligibility requirements listed below
- Banks within a single network will be considered as a single institution
- The first vote from an institution is the one that counts, unless we are told otherwise
- GlobalCapital will keep your votes anonymous. We ask you to do the same. You may ask market contacts to vote for you, but you may not check that they have actually voted, fill in the poll for them or discuss how you vote with other market participants outside your firm
Who can vote?
• Lead managers must have syndicated at least one publicly distributed benchmark covered bond from August 2023 to July 2024.
• Issuers will have launched at least one publicly placed transaction of €250m or more in the past 18 months.
• Investors will have bought covered bonds between July 2023 and August 2024 with the more active getting a larger weighting.
The winners will be announced at our gala dinner on September 12 – the evening of the ECBC Covered Bond Conference in Porto
CATEGORIES:
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Deal of the Year
Best Innovative Deal (This Award is for using diverse or new funding products and techniques, structures, call schedules, investor relations work, ESG activities, etc)
Best ESG Deal
Best Debut or Returning Deal
Best Swiss franc Deal
Best Sterling Deal
Best Dollar Deal
Best Euro Deal -
Issuer of the Year
Best ESG Issuer
Best Eurozone Issuer
Best non-Eurozone Issuer -
Covered Bond House of the Year
Best Euro Lead Manager
Best Dollar Lead Manager
Best Sterling Lead Manager
Best Syndicate Bank
Best Covered Bond Research
Best Liquidity Provider
Best Bank for Distribution
Best Bank for Structuring & ALM
Best Bank for Using Technology in Primary Bond Markets
Best Bank for ESG Issuers
Best Bank for Inaugural Issuers -
Investor of the Year
Best Rating Agency
Best Second Party Opinion Provider
Best Law Firm
Best Primary Market Technology Platform for Covered Bonds
Best Electronic Secondary Market Trading Platform for Covered Bonds
Best Corporate Trust Providers -
Best Syndicate Banker
Best Funding Official
Covered Bonds Rising Star (for any participant in the covered bond markets with less than 10 years’ experience)
Lifetime Achievement Award (we welcome nominations in this category, but the winner will be chosen by GlobalCapital)
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