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The best banks, issuers, deals and other market participants were awarded at a gala industry dinner in New York
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The best banks, issuers, deals and other market participants were awarded at a gala industry dinner in London
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Market participants are invited to vote on the most impressive firms and people in the international debt capital markets
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Messer, BAE, Avilease, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, Citi star in 21st annual Awards
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BAE Systems, Teleperformance and AviLease voted among the Deals of the Year
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Winners will be announced on April 16 at a live event in New York
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Research for the 2024 Global Derivatives Awards has begun. Find out how you can win and the full awards schedule
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees and open voting in this year’s US Securitization Awards
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The Awards will celebrate the Banks of the Year and Deals of the Year in EMEA equity capital markets and M&A, which were most impressive in a testing year for ECM as central banks battled against inflation
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the launch of its 2024 US Securitization Awards
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The new awards programme will celebrate the leading names in Latin American cross-border debt capital markets
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the shortlists and open the main voting round for the 2024 European Securitization Awards
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Poll opens online, to run until November 17
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the launch of its 2024 European Securitization Awards
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal all the winners of its 2023 Americas Derivatives Awards
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal all the winners of its 2023 Global Derivatives Awards
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The covered bond market met in Munich on Thursday to celebrate its best at our gala dinner
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GlobalCapital hosted the 2023 Bond Awards on Wednesday night, gathering together the market’s best and brightest across treasury teams, investment banks, investors, rating agencies, law firms and tech providers.
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The best banks, issuers, platform providers and deals of 2023 will be announced at a gala industry dinner in Munich on September 14
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Award celebrates Coady's consistent excellence in European CLO banking since 2013
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This award recognises the UK bank for providing a complete service built on collaboration. Barclays’ success is about more than deal volume and big transactions
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Warehouse for solar loans marks a new frontier for European ABS and could lead to the continent’s first public solar ABS
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Bell, a true market veteran, has played a pivotal role in the survival and development of the European securitization market
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Bumper £2.1bn deal priced in August while many others struggled to issue
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Best banks, issuers and deals of 2022 awarded at gala industry dinner in London
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Full results announced: Americana, DEWA and Air France-KLM also recognised as outstanding deals
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Market participants invited to choose the outstanding borrowers and banks
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Porsche, BNP Paribas triumph in 20th annual Awards
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Banks and Deals of the Year to be commended after turbulent year
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the shortlist and open the main voting round for its 2023 European Securitization Awards
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GlobalCapital is pleased to launch its 2023 US Securitization Awards. The awards recognize the best banks, deals and market participants of 2022
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GlobalCapital reveals the top deals, banks, investors and advisers voted for by the market. Winners to be revealed in February
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CEEMEA bond market participants are invited to give their views on the outlook for the market in 2023
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Market participants invited to choose outstanding performances of 2022
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The US structured finance market convened in New York to celebrate this year’s winners
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Best banks, issuers and deals of 2021 awarded at gala industry dinner in London
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal the winners of its 2022 Global Derivatives Awards
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Covered bond market leaders gathered in Vienna to celebrate this year’s winners
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It's time to vote for the best in covered bonds
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Industry leaders gather at Awards Dinner in London
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Tell us about the deals, issuers and banks that deserve recognition
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the shortlist for its 2022 Derivatives Awards
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GlobalCapital Equity Capital Markets Awards 2021 show variety of market and innovation
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GlobalCapital is pleased to launch the main voting round for the US Securitization Awards — please see the shortlists below
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the launch of our Bond Awards 2022, one of the highlights of the global primary debt capital markets calendar.
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GlobalCapital can now reveal the winners of its annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards for 2021. Congratulations to all the Award winners and to those who were nominated.
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We are combining our two sets of derivatives awards this year and have revamped the nomination process. Submissions are now open
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Market participants are invited to vote until March 4 on the best deals and non-bank market participants
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GlobalCapital is pleased to launch our online poll to determine nominations for our 2022 US Securitization Awards, which recognize the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants in the calendar year 2021
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GlobalCapital is pleased to launch the main voting round for the European Securitization Awards — please see the shortlists below
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Polling for GlobalCapital's Covered Bond Awards 2021 closes at 5:30pm London time on Monday, August 16, so please be sure to cast your firm’s vote if you haven’t already done so. Preliminary data shows that the frontrunners for many awards are in close contention, so every vote stands to make a huge difference.
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GlobalCapital is thrilled to announce that the survey for this year’s awards is now open. All market participants are invited to take part.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce that the Covered Bond Awards 2021 survey will open for voting from Thursday. Congratulations to all those who made it to the shortlists.
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The risk transfer market has been growing for years, with new jurisdictions, new collateral types, and more issuers waking up to the potential of the tool. But while investors welcomed debut deals from Canada, Japan, and Mexico, there was always one country which was the biggest prize of all. Last year, finally, the US stirred for real, with a deal between JP Morgan and PGGM hopefully firing the starting gun on a major market expansion. Owen Sanderson reports.
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The rapid economic recovery from the pandemic is causing yields to tighten sharply in the securitization market, pushing investors to explore more esoteric ABS sectors and even private credit. Jennifer Kang reports.
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US CLO deals are flooding into the market at a record pace, stretching bankers, lawyers and rating agencies to the limit and challenging the capacity of investors to absorb the heavy volume. There are no signs of slowing down but the oversupply of deals, alongside refinancings and resets, might eventually weigh on spreads, increase manager tiers and cause indigestion.
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As part of GlobalCapital’s awards survey, we asked securitization participants what they wanted from their banks. The results emphasized the importance of market knowledge, more than anything else. Other important qualities sought after included strength of the team and their ability to deal in difficult market conditions, regardless of sector. League table positions mattered less. We also asked you what your outlook was for the second half of 2021. Most expect ABS, RMBS and CMBS spreads to remain stable, but there’s also a sizable number of folks who believe spreads may either tighten or widen slightly. The only exception was expectation for CLO spreads, which very few expect will widen. A big thank you to those who participated in the survey. We’d welcome any suggestions on how we can improve next year!
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Mayer Brown’s strategy is to have genuine strength, depth and expertise across all securitization asset classes. The firm employs over 100 lawyers specializing in structured finance, works on well over 250 deals a year and regularly tops the league tables. This ability to combine comprehensive breadth with deep-seated expertise earned it not one but two awards from the market in 2020: best ABS Law Firm and best RMBS Law Firm.
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There’s a saying that once is luck, twice is coincidence, and three times is a pattern. While we don’t wish to become the in-house newspaper of Guggenheim Securities, once again, following victories in 2019 and 2020, the firm has exceeded our expectations when it comes to the depth, breadth and quality of its securitization activities, and for that reason, we have chosen to award it Esoteric ABS Bank of the Year.
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When the 2007-8 crisis hit, appetite for analytics using macro forecasts to project tranche-level impacts across structured finance was fairly limited. There were models that could forecast the performance of residential mortgages, but few issuers or investors saw the need to try to determine how, for example, unemployment might affect a specific RMBS tranche.
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Golub Capital has won the GlobalCapital 2020 awards for Middle Market CLO Manager of the Year and Middle Market CLO Deal of the Year. These awards continue the firm’s long track record of market leadership in middle market CLOs. They also reflect the power and resilience of Golub Capital’s sponsor finance platform through the Covid-19 crisis. The firm has been the top middle market CLO issuer by volume for the past eight years, according to Creditflux data.
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has always had a culture of intellectual curiosity. Since its foundation in 2011, the search for new challenges and frontiers has led the firm to all corners of securitization. From areas as disparate as single-family rental and commercial real estate NPLs to marketplace lending and solar. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the firm is active across a wide array of structured finance areas, including ABS consumer lending, CMBS, MBS, and CLOs, as well as esoterics such as aviation, and whole business securitizations.
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If there was ever a year when the confidence and insight of a first-rate accounting firm was particularly needed, it was 2020. Facing stiff competition from its peers, Deloitte’s depth and breadth of experience and expertise in structured finance was called on and recognised by the market as Accounting Firm of the Year across multiple sectors.
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We had an abundance of excellent candidates for this award. Yet in a year when the pandemic dominated markets, we wanted to recognise a transaction that not only showed structural flair, creativity and capital markets excellence in solving a problem for a client, but which successfully navigated extremely challenging market conditions at the same time. Congratulations to Fannie Mae and to structuring lead Nomura for Connecticut Avenue Securities-Seasoned B Transaction.
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Global Jet Capital spent many years in meeting after meeting and conference after conference explaining to investors a simple truth - that business aviation is its own market entirely. In 2020, the message hit home. The commercial sector remained in disarray even after lockdowns ended. Business jet travel bounded back sharply. Commercial aviation ABS investors were exposed to firms whose very existence was in doubt. Business aviation ABS investors were exposed to wealthy individuals and successful firms in an array of different industries. At the height of the pandemic while commercial ABS hit collateral triggers, Global Jet Capital hit the primary market with a transaction the market overwhelmingly voted ABS deal of the year.
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Many CLO managers went into 2020 aggressively positioned, with a high percentage of portfolio assets rated triple-C and on the cusp. When the pandemic hit, a wave of downgrades drove these same managers into bouts of forced selling and severely limited purchases of new assets. But not GoldenTree Asset Management.
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Analysts have long viewed point of sale (POS) as a potential new frontier for the consumer ABS sector. In July 2020, with concern over the pandemic’s long-term economic impact still rife, Affirm crossed that frontier with a deal that left no doubts about investor confidence.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to reveal the winners of its 2021 US Securitization Awards, where we seek to recognize the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants of 2020. The vast majority of awards were voted on by the market, from shortlists compiled by GlobalCapital’s editorial team. In compiling the shortlists, we took feedback from the market through a survey, and in direct discussions, studied league tables, submissions and other data. Then, we picked out lists of credible winners for each category, all of which would have been richly deserving of an award.
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RMBS deals of the year are often innovative in one form or another. But they typically only boast one or perhaps two fresh features. Investors looking at the Nomura-led Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust 2020-AB1 had to use both hands to count the structural innovations. The $285.8m reverse mortgage transaction from Waterfall Asset Management was the clear winner in 2020, impressing investors, analysts and other issuers with its groundbreaking structure.
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Waterfall Asset Management is one of the largest structured product-focused alternative investment managers by assets under management. It is a testament to the firm’s skill, dedication, and innovation that this year it won awards both as issuer – RMBS deal of the year – and as hedge fund investor of the year. Waterfall manages approximately $9.5bn of assets across a variety of co-mingled funds, funds-of-one, separately managed accounts, a publicly-traded REIT, and a private equity fund.
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GlobalCapital invites market participants to submit nominations for this year’s Covered Bond Awards, which recognise excellence in the industry over the past year.
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GlobalCapital is preparing to launch its Covered Bond Awards for 2021 and welcomes feedback from the market around which achievements should be recognised.
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GlobalCapital reveals today the winners of its Bond Awards 2021, including celebration of the achievement of top corporate banks and issuers — and Lifetime Achievement Awards for two of Europe’s most prominent corporate funding officials.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to reveal this year’s winners of its Financial Institution Bond Awards, which celebrate the top issuers, arrangers, bankers and service providers in the capital markets.
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The unstoppable rise of sustainability-linked finance was arguably the most important trend in the bond market over the last year as it opened the door to socially responsible investment products for a swathe of issuers unable, for one reason or another, to issue green bonds.
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The FIG debt capital markets business is as competitive as they come but TD Securities has established itself over the last few years by building a reputation as a house that will go the extra mile for issuers.
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Rating emerging market debt is difficult at any time, with economic and financial conditions to track across more than 100 countries, but since the start of the Covid-19 crisis it became even harder, with locally very different health outcomes and policy responses all feeding through to issuers. Moody’s stayed on top by drawing on its longstanding depth and breadth of local knowledge while keeping a focus on key themes such as ESG.
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The last year has seen green, social and sustainability-linked bonds go mainstream in almost every corner of the market, from sovereigns, to financial institutions and corporates.
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Consistency, predictability and transparency were the watchwords for Moody’s financial institutions team over the last year as it navigated the extraordinary conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sustainability became the defining feature of late 2020 and 2021 capital markets, with ever more issuers and investors in more asset classes using more products than ever before. BNP Paribas has led the development of the market from sovereign green bonds to social and sustainability linked finance.
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The green and SRI bond market has been through a dizzyingly fast development over the past year, powered by the appearance of some of the world’s largest public sector issuers, with two green bond entrants from the G7 and the return of a third. Crédit Agricole CIB, with its long-established ESG credentials, has been at the heart of the action.
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The immediate need for corporates in Europe during the Covid-19 crisis was to quickly tap liquidity but after debt capital markets re-opened, thoughts turned to future-proofing business models, balance sheets and funding strategies. BNP Paribas was perfectly placed to have those discussions with clients with an integrated coverage model that provided neutral capital structure advice.
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The arrival of the European Union’s €100bn Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) issuance programme in October 2020 catalysed secondary trading activity in the sovereigns, supranationals and agencies market. Tradeweb’s easily customisable platform has been giving both buy- and sell-side participants automated and efficient tools to take advantage of the opportunities SURE has opened up.
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The primary debt markets have been looking for fintech solutions to reduce the administration costs of frequent shelf issuance for as long as MTN programmes have been in existence. Origin Markets has delivered a flexible system that at last digitalises every step involved in the creation of a security from its definition through to its settlement.
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Corporate debt issuers were in the eye of the storm when the Covid-19 pandemic struck last year and around the globe and across sectors each was affected very differently. Moody’s consistent and transparent approach was crucial to helping investors navigate the period.
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The Maple bond market has enjoyed another strong year and is an increasingly attractive option for SSA issuers seeking investor diversification while the rise of social bonds alongside green is proving a good match with local investor demand. RBC Capital Markets, with an integrated onshore and offshore capability and global public sector team has been at the forefront of these developments.
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The Middle Eastern international bond market once again demonstrated its resilience over the past year with a diverse array of issuers pushing volumes well above $100bn. Standard Chartered’s client-centric approach brought success in products ranging from ESG to bank capital, and from debut transactions for corporates to repeat business for the largest sovereigns.
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Borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa have suffered more than those in most other regions since the Covid-19 crisis swept the globe and as it subsides, they will need international capital markets more than ever. Standard Chartered, with its strategic commitment to Africa, has been preparing issuers for their return by looking for new ways to de-risk transactions and new pockets of liquidity.
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The investment bank awards for financial institution capital and regulatory advice are in many ways two sides of the same coin: both demand deep sector expertise and relationships as well as a strategic understanding of bank balance sheets that goes well beyond a pure debt capital markets perspective. Morgan Stanley has shown its ability to deliver in a period during which these demands were more important than at any time in the last decade.
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A huge year for sovereign funding programmes and the emergence of the European Union as an issuer made for a far more dynamic sovereign, supranational and agency bond market than ever before. The trends played to JPMorgan’s strengths, whether it was the opening up of the ultra-long end of the euro market, the shift to more sovereign syndications over auctions, or the rise and rise of green and social bonds.
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Being a leader in green and sustainable capital markets takes much more than arranging bond frameworks. From advising on sustainability ratings, to structuring deals and managing reporting, to embedding sustainability in lending products, ING is helping clients throughout their sustainability journey.
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The European bond market for financial institutions has swung away from liquidity and towards capital, while ESG is becoming an ever-more important theme. Successful lead managers have needed expertise across all these areas, as well as the global distribution capability to help issuers find opportunities wherever and whenever they arise, a recipe well-suited to HSBC.
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The investment grade bond market has enjoyed a strong run over the last year but it also presented new challenges for corporate treasurers as green and social bond frameworks went mainstream while balance sheets needed strengthening. Rothschild & Co. was there to help clients navigate the challenges.
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The corporate hybrid market is on a tear, with post-Covid issuance in 2020 of €46.7bn, almost as much as in the two previous years combined, and volume for 2021 already reaching €19.8bn by mid-May. Citi has been on the top-line of 60% of the corporate hybrids issued since the start of the pandemic, leading €38.6bn out of a total €66bn, and on 38 tranches out of 75 issued.
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By staying close to clients, whether the largest sovereigns or small, new economy firms, JPMorgan has delivered across the league tables and beyond.
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We’re delighted to reveal the winners of the GlobalCapital Bond Awards — the best borrowers, investment banks, investors and other participants in the international bond markets.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to present the winners for this year's Sovereign, Supranational and Agency bond awards.
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Join us as GlobalCapital announces the winners of its Bond Awards 2021 — including our Socially Responsible Investment Awards — in our online ceremony on Wednesday, June 16 at 3pm London time, 4pm CEST, 10am NY time.
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GlobalCapital wants to know what you think about working life in the capital markets as a result of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two strong themes emerged from an extraordinary year for the securitization market in 2020 and both were recognised by voters in the RMBS and CMBS deal categories.
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The Covid-19 pandemic presented a raft of new challenges for rating securitizations, as issuers, investors and servicers struggled to understand not just how underlying asset classes would cope but the short- and longer-term implications on cashflows as well as credit risk. Moody’s used the breadth and depth of its global franchise to provide consistent guidance and found new ways to reach out to the market and is our Securitization Rating Agency of the Year 2021.
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Looking through the votes for RMBS deal of the year, GlobalCapital saw this deal lagging behind issues from Crédit Immobilier de France Development and LendInvest, both bold executions as the pandemic closed in, and triumphs for the syndicate and treasury teams involved.
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Santander Consumer Bank AG is a relative veteran as an issuer in the securitization market but it is still pushing boundaries. With securitization a central part of its funding – and capital management – plans, a focus on the product across the firm and an experienced team, the bank delivered our ABS Issue of the Year, the largest cash risk transfer deal in the public market, and also wins our ABS Issuer of the Year accolade.
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The story of BNP Paribas’s securitization business has been told before, but it’s still a remarkable turnaround.
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Financial services boutique ISP Group launched its debut European CLO Opportunity Fund during the early spring market turmoil last year. Since then the Ardesia fund has proven its flexibility, recycling risk as the markets moved through panic, recovery and stability modes to deliver a 40%-plus return.
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The environmental, social and governance area of finance has been one of the hottest this year, with sustainability branding stuck on every financial product imaginable, from commercial paper to subscription lines, leveraged loans and bank capital.
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Regulatory pressure has led to over €70bn of non-performing loan transactions from Italian lenders during the last few years, shaking up the servicing business. Prelios has been at the front of the pack from the start and is our Servicer of the Year, after a 2020 in which it began the industrialisation of unlikely-to-pay servicing, built out the first Italian non-performing exposures digital marketplace, and delivered market-leading financial performance.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to reveal the winners of its 2021 European Securitization Awards, where we seek to recognise the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants of 2020.
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From supporting transactions under stress during treacherous market conditions, to helping clients navigate the data and reconciliation challenges of the simple, transparent and standardised (STS) regime, Citi was able to build on strong foundations to deliver for clients in a critical time for the market, making it our Securitization Trustee of the Year.
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When a crisis hits, it’s often the equity tranches that feel the brunt but the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 ultimately created opportunities for some investors in the space. M&G, with its strong reputation among counterparties and ability to invest across the full range of assets, overcame the challenges and is our Securitization Equity Investor of the Year.
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This man’s passion for securitization runs deep — whether it’s calling a tune to the Global ABS conference, evangelism to sceptical regulators, or building a pioneering fixed income boutique out of the ashes of 2008, Rob Ford has remained at the centre of the market since its inception.
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Secondary trading of ABS enjoyed a boom in 2020. For trading desks, that required a need to step up and provide liquidity for clients trying to manage portfolios during difficult markets. BNP Paribas did this demonstrating its commitment to the market as it continued to grow its business to match its leading position in the primary securitized products market. For the second year running BNP Paribas is our Secondary ABS/RMBS Trading House of the Year.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its Americas Derivatives Awards for 2021.
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GlobalCapital will be revealing the winners of its Bond Awards on Wednesday June 16 at 3pm London time (4pm CEST, 10am in New York).
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the shortlist of nominees for its 2021 Global Derivatives Awards.
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GlobalCapital is conducting its annual poll to determine its Bond Awards 2021. The voting deadline has been extended until April 22, so we invite readers who have not voted yet to do so in the coming week.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the shortlists for our US securitization awards — thanks to everyone submitting nominations through our survey, or highlighting interesting deals, notable issuers or capable counterparties to us directly.
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GlobalCapital today launches the poll to determine our Bond Awards 2021, to commend the outstanding achievements in an exceptionally busy time for capital markets, and we invite you to vote.
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Raising equity can be hard for small and mid-cap corporates in Europe. Too small to attract the bulge bracket banks, too big for local brokers to handle — but for Berenberg an opportunity to expand beyond its 430 year-old roots in Germany.
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Equity capital markets advisors had their work cut out for them in 2020. Throughout the year, their services were in high demand due to everything from Covid-related recapitalisations and marquee IPOs for technology-sector stars, to a resurgent equity-linked market, a boom in special purpose acquisition companies, and rising investments in unlisted equity.
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The environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda finally arrived in equity capital markets in 2020 with a flurry of activity across IPOs and convertible bonds.
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Investment bankers tend to always talk about standing behind their corporate clients in tough times. Last year HSBC stood out for putting those words into action.
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Last year GlobalCapital was forced to abandon our 2019 Equity Capital Markets Awards dinner because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Little did we know that what seemed like a brief crisis would transform all our lives in the way it has. But despite the huge pressure of the virus and its dramatic impact on stockmarkets, the equity capital markets rose to the challenge in 2020, enabling many companies to raise vital capital to mend broken balance sheets and even to complete IPOs, all without executives having to leaving their home countries — or even their homes. After an extraordinary year, GlobalCapital is pleased to recognise the truly outstanding achievements in ECM.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal the winners and nominees of its 2020 Equity Capital Markets Awards.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to invite nominations for its 2021 US Securitization Awards, seeking to recognise the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants in the calendar year 2020.
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Voting is now open for GlobalCapital's European securitization awards.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees for this year’s Americas Derivatives Awards.
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GlobalCapital has launched the process to decide the winners of our Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2020. The results will be announced at the end of March.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to invite nominations for its 2021 European Securitization Awards, seeking to recognise the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants of 2020. We would also welcome pitches for Overall Securitization Bank of the Year, Securitization Deal of the Year, and Private Securitization of the Year.
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In November, GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 18th Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards. The nominations are listed below, in alphabetical order. We will reveal the winners at a virtual event in February. Further details on the event will be laid out on our website in January. We congratulate the nominees.
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In the second part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcements, we reveal the winning banks across Panda bonds and ABS, as well as the best bank for securities services.
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In the final part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcements, we reveal the year’s key innovation – and the individual who has made the greatest contribution to reforming and internationalising the onshore market.
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GlobalCapital China is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards, recognising the banks, issuers and individuals that have made the biggest contribution to developing China’s onshore markets. In part one, we reveal the most impressive issuers in the FIG, corporate and SSA categories.
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As global central banks rushed to prop up the global economy this year as the coronavirus pandemic hit, emerging markets issuers stormed into the bond markets, raising record-breaking levels of debt. A deluge of deals, including green debuts, 50 year and even century bonds, were snapped up by an investor base hungry for high — or least comparatively high — yielding assets. The GlobalCapital emerging markets editorial team selected the year’s best deals, giving consideration to the fundamentals of the trade as well as the context around the deal. After much deliberation, the winners were selected as the standout deals in unprecedented times. Congratulations to those involved.
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The corporate sector took the heaviest hit from the coronavirus pandemic, with entire industries pushed to the edge of the abyss almost overnight. Luckily, the bond markets barely missed a beat, because of the heft of central bank bond buying. The deals below are remarkable for having taken advantage of even the most volatile conditions.
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In the final instalment of GlobalCapital Asia’s awards announcements, we reveal the best Asian investment bank and the best investment bank in the region for 2020, as well as the bank that stands out for its response to the Covid pandemic.
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In part three of GlobalCapital Asia's awards results announcements, we reveal the winning bond deals across different categories, as well as the best debt houses and the best bank for SRI financing.
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In the second part of GlobalCapital Asia’s awards announcements, we reveal the standout deals and banks in the equity capital market.
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GlobalCapital Asia has spent the last two months talking to banks and their clients to determine the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers across Asia ex-Japan in 2020, a volatile and unpredictable year. We are pleased to begin our awards announcements in the loan market.
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Fahad Al-Saif, Saudi Arabia The Gulf state is extending its curve and sourcing new channels of funding to meet its fiscal objectives.
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Mohammed al Jadaan, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s smart, innovative and much-needed fiscal response to Covid-19 has gone down well with investors.
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Ziad Fariz, Jordan Jordan was swift to provide liquidity and bring in a package of stimulus measures when the crisis struck.
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Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison, Ghana.
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia Indonesia has responded to Covid-19 in a robust fashion, guided by a finance minister who won’t take her eye off the long-term plan.
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Yi Gang, China At the PBoC, the governor knows that there are times when less is more.
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Luky Alfirman, Indonesia Indonesia’s debt management team has taken a calm, considered approach to an unprecedented situation.
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Richard Martínez, Ecuador Against all the odds, a debt restructuring and IMF programme in record time.
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Mario Marcel Cullell, Chile Well-earned credibility allows bank to broaden policy toolbox amid series of shocks.
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Herman Kamil, Uruguay Uruguay picks the right moment to issue debt — and keeps a local focus.
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Nirmala Sitharaman, India India had limited options for fiscal intervention, but its finance minister has carefully focused on the real priorities.
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Fazle Kabir, Bangladesh Bangladesh has done what it can to limit the damage to a fragile economy – including a cut to a reference rate that has not moved for almost two decades.
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GlobalCapital China is pleased to invite you to participate in our 2020 annual awards.
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BNP Paribas is no stranger to winning the bank award for Central and Eastern Europe, but this year it has added its first Africa award to its haul. A closely integrated approach that sees the emerging markets team working closely with BNP Paribas’s broader credit businesses — whether that is leveraged finance, the high yield and investment grade debt markets and the growth markets — has been crucial to success, says Fred Zorzi, global head of primary markets.
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S&P Global Ratings reorganised its emerging markets effort at the end of 2019, setting up a specialist group that brought together its most senior analysts and economists in 16 countries that it defined as emerging markets across Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America.
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“There was no doubt in our minds that this was seismic,” says Mark Byrne, director, fixed income origination and syndication at TD Securities in London. He’s talking about the moment three years ago, when the UK Financial Conduct Authority confirmed plans to end the use of Libor in 2021.
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Three factors help explain the success of S&P Global Ratings in its financial institutions business during a year in which the Covid-19 pandemic has created unique challenges for the global banking industry and a huge degree of uncertainty over its future credit performance.
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Natixis has, for more than a decade, had a reputation as one of Europe’s leading covered bond houses. It has won awards as the best euro lead manager, and for covered bond research, while maintaining a top 10, and usually a top five position in the global covered bond league tables. “That strength, however, could turn to be a weakness, when volume in the covered bond markets declines”, says Gabriel Lévy, global head of DCM for financial institutions at Natixis in Paris.
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BNP Paribas stood out this year in the euro market for SSAs. In unprecedented market conditions it delivered clients its execution capabilities for the huge increase in funding required, advice around both approaching the market and the new focus on social and sustainable bonds, and its strength in the long end of the curve.
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What is striking about BNP Paribas’s FIG business this year is not just the volume of deals, or the landmark transactions it has worked on — and there have been plenty of those — but the diversity of issuer, product and geography.
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The joined-up approach that BNP Paribas takes to corporate financing came into its own this year, allowing its debt markets teams to better navigate the volatile market and help clients first scrambling for liquidity and then to adapt to the post-crisis economy.
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GlobalCapital has held its Bond Awards every year for the past 12 years — but never like this. For the first time, we are revealing the winners in a virtual ceremony in September rather than at our London awards dinner in May.
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It is hard, if not impossible, to think of a single event that has changed the financial outlook for so many companies as quickly as the Covid-19 pandemic. Corporates, investors and other capital markets participants raced to grasp the implications, putting ratings agencies in the spotlight.
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JPMorgan has topped our poll for the Most Impressive Bank for SSAs for the past five years, a result due on one side to continued investment in the business over a number of years and on the other to the advantage of keeping together what has been one of the most stable coverage teams in the business.
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The Covid-19 pandemic created one of the gravest global health and economic emergencies for a generation, requiring an unprecedented increase in issuance to fund the rapid response from sovereigns, supranationals and agencies.