Securitization Polls and Awards

Welcome to GlobalCapital's 1st Annual Securitization Survey.

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.

The European securitization market in 2018 was awash in interesting and novel securitization deals backed by a range of asset classes.

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.

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%).

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.

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.

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.

PwC claimed GlobalCapital’s inaugural Securitisation Accounting Firm of the Year category ahead of Deloitte and EY.