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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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The story of BNP Paribas’s securitization business has been told before, but it’s still a remarkable turnaround.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a difficult year for many issuers to navigate, but at First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), head of group funding Rula AlQadi could afford to be sanguine when the markets closed down in the early stages of the Covid pandemic.
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The European Investment Bank has had a long-standing and leading bond market franchise, but after reconfiguring its funding team in 2019 it has put in place a structure that readies it for future challenges.
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A combination of local presence and global knowledge has long helped Santander Corporate & Investment Banking keep a leading position in Latin America debt capital markets — where it has been in the top five for many years. Santander is now focused on filling out its platform in more of the region’s countries, while its global strengths in environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters and project and infrastructure finance are helping it deliver for the new challenges its clients are facing.
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Some banks talk about “delivering the bank” to clients but that is hard with so many individuals spread across so many teams and reporting lines. Bank of America does things differently. Its debt capital markets structure under Jeff Tannenbaum, head of EMEA DCM and leveraged finance, combines bonds, loans, derivatives, structuring, ESG, liability management and syndicate in a single team.
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The resurgence of the Maple bond market from its lows since the 2008 financial crisis has delivered a healthy flow of sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers over the last year. RBC Capital Markets has been at the forefront of the revival, delivering some of the year’s biggest transactions and leading the league tables.
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NatWest Markets, part of NatWest Group, has achieved dominant overall market share in sterling for financial institutions, while its breadth of activity has given it a leading role in more complex products that require closer engagement with the buy-side, such as acquisition finance, Libor transition and innovative liability management exercises.
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MarketAxess has long been at the forefront of the evolution in emerging markets bond trading and is now spearheading the next changes in the globalisation of the business. Its Open Trading architecture is connecting ever more participants and cutting trading costs, its automated trading innovations are freeing up traders for to do more valuable work, and its roll out of a request-for-market protocol is fundamentally changing market structure across all markets.
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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.
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Tradeweb has been at the forefront of the development of bond trading for two decades, but it hasn’t stopped evolving as it works with dealers and institutional investors to meet the growing demand for electronification. The SSA market has been a big beneficiary, with rapid take-up of automated trading tools and ever more liquidity available on the platform.
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Few firms can match Rothschild & Co when it comes to the longevity of their client relationships — its oldest has endured for more than a century. In a business such as corporate debt advisory, in which relationships are crucial, that kind of lineage is an important advantage.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its Bond Awards 2020.
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When in March and April market circumstances swung from being most the attractive seen for years in terms of spread and coupon levels to what were the most challenging since at least the eurozone crisis, bank borrowers lost any certainty of market access for even the plainest unsecured debt. That environment suited JPMorgan, which had the size and skillset to pilot clients through the storm.
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GlobalCapital Asia is pleased to invite pitches for our annual capital markets and investment banking awards, which recognise the most impressive transactions and investment banks of 2020.
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Tradeweb is the winner of this GlobalCapital’s OTC trading venue of the year award in what has been an extraordinary time for electronic trading. During the stressed market conditions of spring, Tradeweb stayed committed to innovating and creating efficiencies for its clients, which made it a clear winner of this category. While this award recognises Tradeweb’s achievements in derivatives, its presence in Treasuries, mortgages and exchange traded fund markets should be noted too, especially as much of its recent work has focussed on creating efficiencies across these product lines.
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Tradeweb’s commitment to connecting people and markets by bridging liquidity pools and its work on boosting analytics to help new asset classes prepare for electronification set it apart from its rivals — and led to the company being named GlobalCapital’s OTC Trading Venue of the Year.
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For its work in helping clients across Europe navigate a raft of regulations — from Brexit to Ibor transition and initial margin reporting — Clifford Chance is GlobalCapital’s European Law Firm of the Year for regulatory work.
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In January, Singapore Exchange (SGX) found itself centre stage when the Covid-19 pandemic began to flare up in China. With some Asian markets closed for Chinese New Year, investors dashed to it. “SGX was the only market open for China-proxy risk management and we saw impact across our derivatives shelf,” said Michael Syn, senior managing director at SGX.
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After a record breaking year in which Quantile grew its core business and evolved its offering to meet clients’ needs amid a shifting regulatory backdrop, Quantile is Global Capital’s Global Compression Service of the Year.
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With its data, technology and expertise across asset classes, IHS Markit has developed its offering to adapt to new regulations and help clients fulfil their reporting and compliance obligations.
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Few firms possess the breadth of derivatives product expertise that Mayer Brown has, and it stands out for its global reach and leading practices on both sides of the Atlantic.
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TP ICAP forged ahead with the expansion of its data and analytics offering in 2019, outperforming the market as it rolled out a broader suite of products.
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BNP Paribas went from strength to strength in 2020 by upping the pace of its digitalisation and expanding its client base.
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The violent sell-off across financial markets this spring turned many investors’ positions upside down. Those without proper hedges in place were at best left embarrassed and at worst forced to shut up shop. Despite central banks once again intervening, plenty are finding reason to be cautious. Ross Lancaster investigates what lessons, if any, market participants have learnt from the meltdown.
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Ranked number one across products and regions, and with a proprietary technology platform built from scratch, Citi is positioned for a world where scale and breadth is vital — and the preserve of a handful of firms. Citi tops that pile in both flow business and structured solutions, and it has built a leading OTC clearing business to boot.
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ESG derivatives have been on the development fast track this year as product creation has swept from equity referencing contracts through to other asset classes. Ross Lancaster reports on the next steps the market must take to reach maturity.
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Credit Suisse has harnessed its strength in structured products to deliver innovative solutions for its private banking and institutional clients in a collaborative fashion.
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Playing to its strengths as a top trading house across both flow market making and structured products, Nomura stands out for its consistency, global offering and appetite for risk taking.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its 2020 Global Derivatives Awards.
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The evolution of the global covered bond market in recent years has played to HSBC’s strengths and does a lot to vindicate the bank’s approach to the product.
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It’s human nature; when times are tough you revert to the tried and trusted when you need something doing. And covered bond houses don’t come more tried and trusted than LBBW.
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What does it take to excel as a covered bond syndicate manager in a period of market disruption?
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Caisse Française de Financement Local (Caffil), the covered bond issuer of the SFIL Group, is strongly established as the leading public sector covered bond issuer, with more than €50bn of outstanding bonds, including 22 benchmarks. In particular, it dominates the long-maturity segment, with 60% of its issuance in maturities of 10 year or longer.
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This year almost 400 people responded to the covered bond awards survey, including more than 50 issuers and 200 investors, who said they had bought well over €100bn covered bonds in the past year, with collective covered bond assets under management in excess of €800bn.
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Germany is the ancestral home of covered bonds, so it’s no surprise that to win an award for distribution, a dealer must be strong in the German market. But covered bonds are also Germany’s greatest export success story in the capital markets, so strength at home isn’t enough — a dealer must also have a deep reach into the large community of institutional asset managers across Europe and Asia as well as into official institutions across the globe that are investing in the asset class.
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Repeating success year-in, year-out is a difficult business. Even Michael Jordan’s trail-blazing Chicago Bulls team had a couple of off years in the middle of their 1990s winning streak. It’s quite some achievement, then, that Barclays has now won the GlobalCapital Best Bank for Structuring and ALM award six times in a row.
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GlobalCapital is proud to announce this year's winners of the covered bond awards
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Just a few few votes separate the leading contenders in some of the categories in GlobalCapital’s Covered Bond Awards 2020 survey and, with the outcome uncertain, market participants that have not voted yet are encouraged to do so soon.
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The GlobalCapital Covered Bond Awards survey is now open and market participants are invited to take a look at the voting shortlists before casting their votes for this year’s best lead managers, issuers and deals.
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As a result of its robust approach to risk management and ability to deliver structured and flow solutions across its corporate, wealth management and institutional clients, Credit Suisse is our Equity Derivatives House of the Year.
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Thanks to its continual drive to deliver innovative solutions across products including Libor transition, systems development, Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and structured notes, Numerix is GlobalCapital Americas Data and Analytics Vendor of the Year.
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For the way that it has taken its traditional strengths in credit trading to build out a full-spectrum derivatives business underpinned by investments in people and technology, Barclays is our Credit Derivatives House of the Year.
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As a result of the breadth and depth of its offering across asset classes, products and client types, while building market-leading technology solutions and delivering consistently high service levels, Citi is our Americas Derivative House of the Year, FX Derivatives House of the Year and Derivatives Clearing Bank of the Year.
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It was another banner year for TriOptima, our Compression Service of the Year, as it set new records for reducing notional, put in place its service to deal with benchmark reform, and continued to innovate with the launch of an API for compression.
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Thanks to its unrelenting commitment to providing liquidity to clients, in whatever form they want to transact, while managing the transition to fully electronic solutions, TP ICAP is our Interdealer Broker of the Year.
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From a start-up seven years ago to boasting a client list of 130 commercial banks across the US, Derivative Path is our Risk Management Advisory Firm of the Year for the technology-led way in which it has shaken up the delivery of interest rate hedging solutions.
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Thanks to its commitment to capital efficiency and robust margining processes, CME Clearing is our Derivatives Clearing House of the Year.
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For showing commitment to clients during bad times as well as good, for leadership in preparing for the transition to Sofr and for continued innovation in structured solutions, BNP Paribas is our Americas Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year.
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For its customer-centric growth from a Canadian bank into the wider North American market, TD Securities is our Canada Derivatives House of the Year.
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For its holistic approach to volatility, its derivatives-focused research and digital offerings in corporate solutions, all underpinned by investment in financial engineering, Societe Generale is our Volatility Derivatives Bank of the Year, Research and Strategy House of the Year and Corporate Solutions Provider of the Year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Americas Derivatives Awards. This year’s pitching process was one like no other as the Covid-19 crisis swept throughout the world.
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While innovation is frequently applauded by market participants after the fact, actually convincing investors and others to change the way they work or to adopt new systems can be extremely challenging. Arguing successfully for an update to a process that has been in place for decades is no mean feat. For this reason, MUFG’s innovation of a key part of the CLO transaction lifecycle has been recognized with the accolade of Most Innovative Securitization Bank of the Year in 2019.
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Running a successful securitization trustee business is all about balancing the need to sustain high levels of service, while building and maintaining scale by investing in the business. It is a difficult juggling act at the best of times, but in years of exceptionally strong volume, such as 2019, it marks the best from the rest.
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2019 was a year of huge growth for the structured finance team at Morgan Lewis. With that growth, and the strong interplay of the structured finance practice with other practice areas of the firm, Morgan Lewis was able to work on some of the most interesting esoteric ABS deals of the year. The number of lawyers working in the structured finance practice grew from 45 to 60 between mid-2018 and 2020. The bulk of the new additions arrived in 2019, when seven new lawyers joined the practice in Washington, D.C, and four joined in both New York and Chicago.
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The sheer amount of information, data and noise coming from the markets can be overwhelming even in the most benign periods, and investors need a reliable and impartial source to help them sort through it all. Rating agencies are a crucial conduit for this kind of analysis, and last year, the analysts at Moody’s Investors Service stood out among their peers as the most insightful, engaged, responsive and accessible research team, securing their win in GlobalCapital’s 2019 US Securitization Awards.
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The rise of impact investing and environmental, social and governance strategies (ESG) have proved capital markets can be a driving force for positive change. Newmarket Capital, established to acquire and grow the structured solutions and impact-focused IIFC funds previously housed at Mariner Investment Group, is focused on strategies including development and infrastructure finance, socially responsible investments, and impact securitization. In partnership with Citi, the Newmarket team’s CITAH 2019 transaction securitizing affordable housing loans stands out as a prime example of accessing capital markets to address an urgent social need, earning our Most Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year for 2019.
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Three broad themes drove Kramer Levin’s ABS practice to new heights in 2019. First, there was the ongoing adoption of clean energy deals by commercial issuers, adding to the already strong issuance from the residential side. Second, there was the rise of new asset classes including Collateralized Fund Obligations (CFOs), as private market investors sought new liquidity for their stakes in private investment funds. Third, an increase in the use of traditional private placements for ABS deals boosted the number of investor clients on the firm’s client roster. This was in addition to work in the timeshare sector and in the residential solar markets that have long been the backbone of Kramer Levin’s practice.
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Since inception in 2014, Guggenheim’s structured finance franchise has demonstrated a strong commitment to broadening the reach of securitization and capital markets financing to new issuers and new asset classes. The team, led by industry veteran Cory Wishengrad, is stocked with senior structured finance talent hired from firms up and down Wall Street. In six years, Guggenheim Securities has brought an astounding 65 new issuers to market and introduced 19 new asset classes. That track record continued in 2019 and secured the firm’s spot as GlobalCapital’s Best Securitization Bank of the Year.
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The spectre of the transition from Libor to Sofr has loomed over the market for several years with many technical issues still being worked out. Many in the market feel that the whole issue will end up in court, with judges being asked to decide the one fundamental question of who will end up paying for it. Against that backdrop, it takes a brave and committed issuer to step up to the plate and very publicly do a deal that breaks that log jam. For Freddie Mac, it was market leadership of the very highest order.
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Dechert’s US CMBS practice stands out for the breadth of work it does, its range of clients and its cutting-edge regulatory work. This culminated in leading market shares in terms of volumes and values of deals, including being the number one counsel on deals in the CRE CLO space in 2019.
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What Nomura has achieved in the US RMBS market since it decided to enter in 2013 is remarkable. In a little over six years, under the leadership of Gordon Sweely, head of securitized products, Americas, it has risen to number two in the league tables for the volume of deals done in 2019. It was involved in a large number of the most innovative and ground breaking transactions of the year as well. Perhaps most importantly, it has earned the respect and admiration of its clients and peers.
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Moody’s has been collecting data on the structured finance market for almost 30 years. Today, Moody’s Analytics (sister company of credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service) offers go-to platforms for the structured finance market and is continually developing new technology to organise and broadcast that deep data set. This has long been recognised by structured finance investors, where it has a strong client base. But over the course of 2019, the company expanded its issuer business with the purchase of the Deloitte ABS Suite software system. It has also taken great strides in enabling its data to be fed into investment bank client portals through hosted APIs, and delivering content in a modular way through i-frames. Its embedded presence across all sides of the CLO markets explains why it came top of the GlobalCapital poll for securitization technology provider of the year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the winners of its annual US Securitization Awards.
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In the GlobalCapital poll for our 2019 US Securitization Awards, Golub Capital with Morgan Stanley as arranger of the Golub CLO 45(M) deal nabbed 28% of the votes, taking first place among the four deals nominated. Golub Capital has a 15-year track record of managing CLOs and has been the leading middle market CLO issuer by volume for each of the last seven years, according to Creditflux data. This is Golub Capital’s seventh award in the past seven years for recognition in the CLO space.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees for its 2020 global derivatives awards.
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GlobalCapital has made the difficult but hopefully understandable decision to postpone our 2020 Bond Awards, but we are now relaunching them today.
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GlobalCapital may not have been able to celebrate its Equity Capital Markets Awards in person with the winners this year but we are no less delighted to be able to reveal who they are and those winners are no less deserving for it. We fully intend that the dinner will return next year but for the meantime, here are some of the highlights from this year’s crop. Our congratulations to all.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal the winners and nominees of its 2019 Equity Capital Markets Awards.
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For consistency and execution, Société Générale is GlobalCapital’s best bank for equity capital markets in France and Benelux.
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HSBC entered Europe’s top three in the equity-linked league tables in 2019, capping a multi-year rise with a series of firsts and eye-catching deals.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of its annual European Securitization Awards
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Barclays isn’t the only bank to have made a strategic call to get back and get relevant in the new world of European securitization, but the progress it has made is astonishing, and that’s why the bank is GlobalCapital’s 2019 overall bank of the year for European securitization.
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NatWest Markets' securitization business has emerged stronger and more focused than ever, turning the constraints of balance sheet and funding imposed by the UK’s ring-fencing regime and the challenges of RBS's history into a competitive advantage — and forging a distinct identity around the more complex and esoteric end of the securitization markets.
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Nationwide’s Silverstone 2019-1 RMBS deal looked like a potential deal-of-the-year almost as soon as it was priced in April last year — not because the collateral was complex, the originator was unknown, or because the deal structure was especially devious, but because of what it meant for the largest part of the European securitization market, UK RMBS.
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The poll to determine GlobalCapital's Bond Awards 2020 is open. Until June 30, market participants are invited to choose the firms and individuals who have performed most impressively in the past year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the nominees for its annual US Securitization awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in structured finance markets.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards at its Loan Awards Dinner at London’s Sheraton Grand Hotel on Park Lane on February 11. The Awards included GC's new Private Debt Awards. The full results are below. GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the nominees for this year’s Americas Derivatives awards.
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The poll is open for GlobalCapital’s Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2019 and we invite market participants to have their say on the best performers of last year. The results will be announced at our fifth annual ECM Awards Dinner on Wednesday, March 18 in London — so please save the date.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2020 US Securitization Awards.
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In the final part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcement, we discuss the key innovation of 2019, and reveal the individual that has made the greatest contribution to reforming and internationalising the Chinese onshore market.
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In the second part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcement, we reveal the winning banks across Panda bonds, G3 bonds and ABS, as well as the best bank for securities services and the most impressive law firm.
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In the fourth and final instalment of GlobalCapital Asia’s capital markets awards announcements, find out which firms have been named the Best Asian Investment Bank and the Best Investment Bank in the region for 2019.
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GlobalCapital China, previously GlobalRMB, is pleased to announce the winners of its annual capital markets awards, honouring the banks, companies and individuals that have made the biggest contribution to bridging the gap between China’s markets and the rest of the world. In part one of the awards, we reveal the most impressive issuers in the FIG, corporate and SSA categories.
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In part three of GlobalCapital Asia's awards results announcements, we reveal the winning bond deals across a variety of categories. In addition, we also name the Best G3 Bond House, Best High Yield Bond House and the winner of the Best House for SRI Financing.
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In the second part of our results announcements, we reveal the winning equity deals and banks, including the Best Follow-on/Accelerated Bookbuild, Best Equity-Linked Deal, Best IPO, Best ECM Deal and Best ECM House. Our congratulations to all the winners!
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GlobalCapital Asia 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 2019. We are pleased to begin our awards announcements in the loan market.
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In November, GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 17th Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards. The nominations are listed below, in alphabetical order. We will reveal the winners at the Awards Dinner, to be held on February 12, 2020, in London. For details on attending the event, please contact Daniel Elton at delton@euromoneyplc.com or by calling +44 20 7779 7305
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After the Federal Reserve’s hawkish attitude in 2018, a more dovish mood at the US central bank meant that 2019 was smooth sailing for many emerging market borrowers. However, political storms meant the turbulent asset class still threw up its share of rocks for borrowers to navigate. The GlobalCapital editorial team selected the best deals of the year, considering not just the eventual result of the trade, but the backdrop against which the deals were sold. The winners are presented here. Congratulations to those involved.
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2019 proved more fruitful for supranational, sovereign and agency borrowers than was expected in 2018 — in part thanks to a rejuvenation of the ECB’s asset purchase programme and a wholesale return to dovish monetary policies. GlobalCapital’s SSA team used its editorial judgment, with inspiration from GC’s world famous bond comments, to pick the top trades of the year. We strove to find deals that were not just the biggest, but that set pricing markers, were innovative and brave, or made an impression in other ways. GC presents the winners here. Congratulations to the issuers and banks involved.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the nominees for its second European Securitization Awards — please vote now through the link below. The closing date for votes is January 10.
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GlobalCapital China is pleased to invite you to participate in the GlobalCapital China Capital Market Awards 2019. Inaugurated last year under the GlobalRMB banner, the awards celebrate the accomplishments of the leading players in the renminbi debt capital markets, onshore and offshore, as well as key service providers.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the European Securitization Awards 2020.
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Société Générale’s new Hedge to Pledge initiative has been two years in the making. By tapping into existing flows of FX trading, it will raise funds for a variety of good causes in partnership with Epic Foundation, an innovation that could embed charitable donation into routine financial practice, and therefore wins GlobalCapital’s industry initiative of the year.
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BGC has taken advantage of volatile market conditions and its rivals’ merger distractions to win market share, enlarge its electronic footprint and grow its top line. This has been the year it has all come together for the firm, making it GlobalCapital’s Interdealer Broker of the Year.
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Committed client service and outreach, along with its appetite for derivatives and the performance it has achieved by using them, make BMO Global Asset Management GlobalCapital’s Asset Manager of the Year.
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Credit Suisse’s differentiated approach to clearing has been much praised by clients this year. It combines the responsiveness of a boutique with the platform capabilities that allow its clients to scale. It has become a European champion in a business in danger of being dominated by US banks and is GlobalCapital’s Global Clearing Bank of the Year.
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Citadel Securities has this year added depth to its FICC offering to compound an already strong position in equities. This breadth of business, which has been expanded with powerful entries into new markets, has been matched by the firm’s confidence in establishing itself as a significant public advocate on market issues, making it GlobalCapital’s Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year.
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It has been a year of strong expansion for JCRA with the firm spreading its influence and now regularly working with top tier funds and companies. It has also successfully moved into the FX hedging advisory sector, bulking up around its core offering on interest rates, and using that expertise to benefit UK housing associations and the renewable energy sector, among others. For that, it is GlobalCapital’s Risk Management Advisory Firm of the Year.
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Mayer Brown is GlobalCapital’s Global Law Firm of the Year after an impressive 12 months that comprised working closely with ISDA on new regulations, having a seat on nearly every bank’s legal panel and making a number of key hires in the US.
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Strength across the board, top positions in rates and FX and smart strategic decisions around the structure of its business mean that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is GlobalCapital’s Global Derivatives House of the Year for 2019. The bank also picked up the Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year and FX Derivatives House of the Year awards.
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Despite huge political headwinds and stiff competition, LCH still dominates European clearing, both in the volumes it processes and the innovation and new product development that it continuously commits to, making it GlobalCapital’s Clearing House of the Year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Global Derivatives Awards. The winners were unveiled at a gala dinner at the Banking Hall in London on Wednesday night.
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GlobalCapital has revealed the results of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2019. The Awards gave honours to three debut sovereign issuers: the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Chile, investment firm Amundi, and banks including Crédit Agricole, HSBC and ING.
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A breakdown of how investors, issuers and lead managers voted in the covered bond awards survey 2019.
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GlobalCapital Asia is pleased to invite pitches for our annual capital markets and investment banking awards, which reward the most impressive transactions and investment banks of 2019.
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Congratulations to the winners of GlobalCapital's Covered Bond Awards 2019.
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The Covered Bond Awards 2019 poll closes today and with only a few votes splitting the top contenders for several award categories, its not too late to make a difference.
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GlobalCapital has published the nominations for its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards. The winners will be announced on September 17, at our Awards Ceremony in Amsterdam.
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The survey for GlobalCapital's Covered Bond Awards 2019 is due to close on January 16. You don't need to be a subscriber to vote.
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The Covered Bond Awards 2019 survey is off to a very strong start with roughly 300 completed responses registered in the first week. Two banks are running neck and neck for the top award, but with four weeks to go, pecking orders can change.
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In response to requests from market participants, GlobalCapital has extended the closing date of its poll to determine the 2019 winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards. Market participants can now vote until July 26.
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GlobalCapital invites market participants to nominate their favourite covered bond lead managers, issuers and deals by the close of play today. The shortlists will be decided this week-end and voted on by the market from the start of next week.
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Please take the opportunity to vote in GlobalCapital's covered bond awards 2019 awards survey, which is due to close on Friday August 16. You don't need to be a subscriber to vote.
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GlobalCapital has launched its poll to determine the 2019 winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards. Market participants are invited to participate.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the nominees for this year’s Global Derivatives Awards.
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GlobalCapital is conducting a global research survey on the fast-changing markets for sustainable financing and investing. It will combine the views of issuers and investors to give a nuanced picture of how this trend is changing capital markets for both groups.
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Taking a bespoke, advisory approach, at the same time as offering innovative solutions to its clients continues to prove a winning formula for Société Générale, all of which helped the bank mount a successful defence of its title of Americas Corporate Solutions House of the Year.
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For its dedication to advocacy for the derivatives industry’s improvement, investment in meaningful technological change and its ability to adapt quickly to change, Citi is GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives House of the Year, as well as its Clearing House of the Year and Research and Strategy House of the Year.
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For its success in executing large and sophisticated transactions, often while embedded within corporate treasury teams, and its commitment to market transparency, Chatham Financial is GlobalCapital’s Americas Risk Management Advisory Firm of the Year.
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For its commitment to growing a complete derivatives offering, including newly bolstered enforcement capabilities, a leading structured products practice and dedication to helping clients understand cross-border dynamics, Mayer Brown is GlobalCapital’s overall Americas Law Firm of the Year.
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For its commitment to finding innovative trading and capital efficiencies for its clients, a run of highly successful product launches and its leadership role in market transitions, CME Group is both GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives Clearing House of the Year and Americas Derivatives Exchange of the Year.
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For its ability to sustain powerful growth in an increasingly competitive market, for its identification and execution of opportunities in new markets and innovation in analysis of derivatives data, Numerix is GlobalCapital’s Americas Data and Analytics Vendor of the Year.
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For its commitment to advocacy for fairer and more transparent markets and powerful growth in market making across asset classes, XTX Markets is GlobalCapital’s Americas Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year as well as its Americas Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year for both equity and FX derivatives.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners of its 2019 Americas Derivatives Awards, revealed at a gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York on Thursday May 30. As ever, the awards recognise the firms and innovations that have advanced the derivatives markets during the last 12 months.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2019 Bond Awards at its annual Bond Awards Dinner at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London on May 22. The complete results are below. GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
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GlobalCapital took pitches for several contenders for the most innovative securitization deal of the year. All of them were impressive — whether using securitization to finance improvements to public infrastructure, convert a fleet of passenger planes into cargo aircraft, or pooling renewable energy credits to promote the development of residential rooftop solar energy.
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As the securitization market in the US has expanded and accelerated in the decade since the financial crisis, institutions have pushed the boundaries to include collateral and structures not seen in the pre-crisis era. For the first time in the history of these awards, GlobalCapital solicited pitches from banks that considered themselves to be innovators in their markets.
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GlobalCapital held its sixth annual US Securitization Awards at New York's Metropolitan Club on Wednesday, May 8.
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Welcome to GlobalCapital's 1st Annual Securitization Survey.
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I was in one of the bars at the Shangri-La on Monday surrounded by some of Hong Kong’s finest financiers celebrating a win at the GlobalCapital Asia awards.
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Private securitization and private asset finance is a large part of the structured finance apparatus in Europe, and the awards this year aimed to capture some of that activity.
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The European securitization market in 2018 was awash in interesting and novel securitization deals backed by a range of asset classes.
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In a closely fought three-way showdown with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan emerged as NPL Finance House of the Year. The US house attracted some 38% of respondents’ votes, putting it narrowly ahead of Deutsche (35%).
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After racking up as many as 12 notable deals in the sector during 2018, BNP Paribas broke the 40% barrier in claiming the RMBS Bank of the Year award in GlobalCapital’s first post-crisis European securitization awards. The French house attracted a quarter as many votes again as second-placed Lloyds Bank and more than half as many again as HSBC in third.
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Allen & Overy achieved one of the most notable results in GlobalCapital’s first post-crisis European securitization awards, receiving almost half of all votes in the overall Securitisation Law Firm of the Year category (47.5% — a result bettered only by BofA in the Securitization Research House of the Year). The firm’s lead over its nearest competitor (Clifford Chance) was an exceptional 11 percentage points.
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One of the strongest results in Global Capital’s first post-crisis European securitization awards was Citi’s win in the ABS Bank of the Year category. The leading underwriter in the sector, according to Dealogic data, the US bank claimed nearly 45% of the vote to come in 7.5 percentage points ahead of its nearest rival, BNP Paribas.
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PwC claimed GlobalCapital’s inaugural Securitisation Accounting Firm of the Year category ahead of Deloitte and EY.
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The award for Securitization Bank of the Year for 2018 was given to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The bank’s securitization team demonstrated a deep commitment to securitization markets at numerous levels — from origination and advisory, analytics, syndication, sales, trading and research. In syndication, BAML has a team solely dedicated to the marketing and execution of deals across Europe.
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GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.
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GlobalCapital hosted its first annual European securitization awards in London on Wednesday, March 13.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the nominees for its annual US ABS awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in structured finance markets.
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GlobalCapital today launches its poll to decide its Bond Awards - the premier accolades for issuers, banks and other participants in the international bond markets, which are decided entirely by market opinion. We invite you to vote to choose the bond issuers, investment banks, investors and other market participants that have contributed most impressively to the market during the past year.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2018 Loan Awards at its annual Syndicated Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London on February 6. The complete results are below. GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the nominees for its 2019 Americas Derivatives awards.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its annual US Securitization Awards.
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The poll is open for GlobalCapital’s Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2018 and we invite market participants to have their say on the best performers of last year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the nominees for its European Securitization Awards.
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Despite the continuation of the ECB’s corporate sector purchase programme in 2018, global political and economic worries caused heightened volatility in the corporate bond market throughout the year. All issuers who executed their deals in 2018 will be happy with their work. However, a handful of transaction stood out for specific congratulations as the winners of our awards this year.
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In November, GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 16th Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards. The nominations are listed below in alphabetical order. We will reveal the winners at the Awards Dinner, to be held on February 6, 2019 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London. For details on attending the event, please contact Daniel Elton at delton@euromoneyplc.com, +44 20 7779 7305.
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In the fourth and final instalment of GlobalCapital Asia’s capital markets awards announcements, find out the Best Asian Investment Bank and the Best Investment Bank in the region for 2018.
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In part three of our results announcements, we reveal the winning bond deals across a variety of categories. In addition, we also name the Best G3 Bond House, Best Local Currency Bond House, Best High Yield Bond House and the debut winner of the Best House for SRI Financing.
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In part two of our results announcements, we reveal the winning equity deals and banks, including the Best Follow-on/Accelerated Bookbuild, Best Equity-Linked Deal, Best IPO, Best ECM Deal and Best ECM House.
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GlobalCapital Asia has spent the last two months talking to banks and their clients in a bid to determine the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers across Asia ex-Japan in 2018. We are pleased to begin our awards announcements in the loan market.
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GlobalCapital’s poll to determine our Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards 2018 closes on Thursday. We would be delighted if you would take this opportunity to pick the deals and firms that have made the most difference to making loan markets a success in 2018. We remind you that an institution cannot win a category it hasn't voted on.
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Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan, Saudi Arabia
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Abdellatif Jouahri, Morocco
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In the final article on our GlobalRMB awards, we talk about the key innovation of the year and highlight the individual that has made the greatest contribution to the development of China’s cross-border capital markets.
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In this third part of the GlobalRMB awards, we present our reasons for choosing the best issuers in the FIG, corporate and SSA categories — and praise the strong performance of one well-known foreign law firm.
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For its continued rapid growth and surging volumes across all asset classes, for its continued investments in technology and people and for its public stands on making markets fairer, XTX Markets is GlobalCapital’s Specialist Liquidity Provider of the Year.
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GlobalCapital is delighted to announce the winners of its 2018 Global derivatives awards, which were unveiled at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London on Tuesday September 25.
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GlobalCapital’s 12th annual covered bond awards took place this year at BMW Welt in Munich on Thursday, September 13. The awards reflected the judgment of almost 400 market participants, including 170 investors, who reported buying €100bn of covered bonds in the past 12 months and with over €600bn in covered bond assets under management.
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In GlobalRMB's Best Bank Awards for China DCM, Standard Chartered wins for ABS and CNH, HSBC takes home the G3 Bond House Award, and Bank of China gets kudos as the Best House for Panda bond issuers.
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Securities services was one of the most competitive award categories GlobalRMB had to decide this year. Our awards criteria demanded the near-impossible from participating banks: to beat the competition in the fast-changing China access scheme, while at the same time demonstrating a broad client base and the ability to be at the cutting edge of innovation.
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The distribution of the votes for the 2018 Covered Bond Awards.
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The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at BMW Welt in Munich, celebrating the best performers in the market.
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GlobalCapital Asia is pleased to invite pitches for our annual capital markets and investment banking awards, rewarding the most impressive transactions and investment banks of 2018.
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GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. This year’s two sovereign debut green finance issues, from Indonesia and Belgium, won Deals of the Year in their regions, and there were double laurels for Danone, in both the bond and loan markets.
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GlobalRMB is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural awards, honouring those banks, companies and individuals that have made the biggest contribution to bridging the gap between China and the rest of the world.
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The nominations for GlobalCapital's Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 have been revealed, as a result of our worldwide market poll, conducted in July.
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GlobalRMB opened this week to submissions for its inaugural capital markets awards. We have covered the markets. We know the players. Now it's time to pick some winners.
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After a year of burgeoning growth and change in green, social and sustainability bond issuance, with huge acceleration in green loans, GlobalCapital today invites you to vote in its third Awards poll for this market.
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GlobalCapital held its fifth annual US Securitization Awards dinner at Manhattan's Metropolitan Club on Wednesday, May 30.
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GlobalCapital announced the winners of the Bond Awards 2018 on Wednesday night at our 11th annual Bond Awards dinner, at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London. Here we present the winners and nominees for those that have performed best in the FIG bond market in the past year.
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GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Bond Awards 2018 on Wednesday night at our 11th annual Bond Awards dinner, at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London. Some 280 people were there to see the brightest and best performers in the international bond markets in the past year crowned.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners for this year’s Americas Derivatives Awards. The results were announced at a gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York on Thursday. The awards honour the firms and innovations that have pushed the derivatives market forward over the last 12 months.
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For creating an excellent combination of voice and electronic broking services, working to expand its product offering and collaborating with clients to ensure a smooth transition to new regulatory requirements, Tradition is GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives Broker of the Year.
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For its standout response to the electronification of derivatives markets, attention to regulatory requirements and innovation across a range of clients and trading protocols, NEX Data is GlobalCapital’s Americas Data and Analytics Provider of the Year.
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For creating efficiencies through the trade lifecycle, its commitment to launching new products and willingness to innovate, CME Group is GlobalCapital’s Americas Exchange of the Year and Americas Clearing House of the Year.
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For innovation in structuring, its leading role in helping financial institutions comply with regulations and its support for the derivatives industry through its work in drafting standardized documentation, Mayer Brown is GlobalCapital’s Americas Law Firm of the Year.
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For the growth of its business, its broad offering of trading protocols and its innovation in intelligent execution, Tradeweb is GlobalCapital’s Americas Swap Execution Facility of the Year.
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For its ability to pilot clients through periods of intense volatility, marry technology with advice and to work seamlessly across its investment bank and wealth investment arm, Credit Suisse is GlobalCapital’s Americas Derivatives House of the Year.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the winners for this year’s Americas Derivatives Awards. The results were announced at a gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York on Thursday. The awards honour the firms and innovations that have pushed the derivatives market forward over the last 12 months.
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When GlobalCapital surveyed leaders in the European equity markets as to which deal should be called the deal of the year, the answer was unequivocal. The rights issue for UniCredit was such an important deal and it went so well, that its ramifications are still being felt. It was an outstanding achievement in the face of difficult market conditions and set in play a widespread recovery in European equity capital markets.
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To a casual observer, Citi's amazing year in the EMEA equity capital markets might seem to have come out of the blue. In 2017 they made a huge jump up the league tables in terms of deals, volumes and wallet share. But it wasn't just one of those years where everything went right for them. Rather it was the fruit of three or four years investment in the business. It had been a long time in the making
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The EMEA IPO market came roaring back to life in 2017 after some tricky years. Banks and financials led the way, but as the economic recovery in the region accelerated, a huge array of other issuers came to market. It was a market where you could get deals done. UBS was bookrunner on seven of the top 10 largest IPOs of the year. UBS has a strong focus on the equity markets and with that focus, the quality to ensure successful transactions.
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Asiamoney, in association with National Australia Bank, invites all fixed income investors in Asia and Europe to participate in the Australian Fixed Income Poll 2018. The online poll will take only five to 10 minutes to complete.
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FIG issuers and investment banks have until Tuesday to vote in the 2018 GlobalCapital Bond Awards Poll.
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GlobalCapital is pleased to present the nominees for the annual US ABS awards, recognizing excellence across the structured finance industry.
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The €13bn rights issue of UniCredit was acclaimed as the Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year at GlobalCapital’s 2017 ECM Awards, which were presented on Tuesday night at our third ECM Awards Dinner, held at One Whitehall Place in London.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Equity Capital Markets Awards 2017 at our third annual Awards Dinner in London on March 20. CEOs and CFOs were present to collect Awards for landmark deals such as the UniCredit and Santander rights issues and the IPOs of Allied Irish Banks and Pirelli.
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GlobalCapital is taking nominations for its annual US ABS awards.
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China
The Global RMB Poll 2018 runs from February 26 to March 30. Corporations, financial institutions and investors from around the world that have used renminbi services are welcome to participate.
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We are excited to announce that the GlobalCapital Bond Awards Poll is now open.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards 2017 at its 15th Annual Loans Dinner on Wednesday. Banks and borrowers from all over the EMEA region attended the dinner at the new venue of Gibson’s Hall in Bishopsgate, London.
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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2017 Loan Awards at its annual Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at Gibson Hall in London on February 7. The full results are below: GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.
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In the last instalment of our 2017 awards, we present the full write-ups of the winners of Best Asian Investment Bank and Best Investment Bank.
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In the third instalment of our 2017 awards, we present the full write-ups of the winners of the Best Local Currency Bond, Best High Yield Bond, Best Financial Bond, Best SSA Bond, Best Investment Grade Bond, Best Project Finance Deal, Best Bond, Best G3 and Local Currency Bond House, and Best High Yield Bond House.
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In the second instalment of our 2017 awards, we present the full write-ups of the winners for Best Follow-On/Accelerated Bookbuild, Best Equity-Linked Deal, Best IPO, Best ECM Deal and Best ECM House.
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In the first instalment of our 2017 awards, we present the full write-ups of the winners for Best Investment Grade Syndicated Loan, Best High Yield Syndicated Loan, Best Leveraged/Acquisition Finance, Best Loan and Best Loans House.
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Over the last two months, GlobalCapital Asia's team has conducted pitch meetings with banks to decide the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers in Asia in 2017.
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Jiří Rusnok, Czech Republic
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Héctor Valdez Albizu, the Dominican Republic
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Anas Khalid Al Aaleh, Kuwait
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Lesetja Kganyago, South Africa
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Citi has promoted Cecile Ratcliffe to markets head of France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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GlobalCapital Asia is pleased to invite pitches for our annual regional capital markets and investment banking awards, rewarding the most impressive transactions and investment bank franchises of 2017. The deadline for submissions is October 9.
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The Cover and GlobalCapital held the annual Covered Bond Awards Dinner on Thursday night at Casa Llotja de Mar in Barcelona, celebrating the best performers in the market.
