Synd Loans Polls and Awards

GlobalCapital will open the poll on Monday October 26 to decide the winners of its Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards 2016.

On February 11, GlobalCapital held its annual Syndicated Loans and Leveraged Finance industry dinner and announced the winners of the Loan Awards 2014.

In the first instalment of our 2014 awards, we present the winners for Best Project Financing, Best Leveraged Financing, Best Investment Grade Loan and Best Loans House.

The Islamic finance industry continues to grow quickly, in terms of both assets and users. Yet within this fast-growing sector a number of banks tend to stand out for the quality of their services. ASIAMONEY picks the stand-out Islamic banks in Asia and the Middle East for the past year. By Chris Wright.

Russian hydroelectric generator RusHydro has signed a brace of export credit agency-backed long term credit facilities totalling €190m.

The EuroWeek Asia and Asiamoney capital markets and investment banking awards were decided by the editorial team in December 2013 after an exhaustive series of meetings with bankers. Banks were invited to submit written pitches in November, after which journalists held meetings with individual asset class teams as well as discussions with issuers. Our thanks go to all those who took the time to discuss their work.

The poll is now closed and votes are being counted to decide the winners of EuroWeek’s annual Syndicated Loans & Leveraged Finance Awards.

Banks have long been telling their corporate clients that easy, cheap financing is available in the liquidity heavy syndicated loan market. But now that borrowers have submitted to temptation and are pushing to do fee-free amend and extends, they must wish they'd kept their mouths shut.

With competition to win EMEA loans mandates heating up, lenders are making ever more aggressive pitches. But a surprising section of the market has stepped up to save the banks from themselves.

With the Loan Market Association’s annual conference approaching on Thursday, bankers are taking an opportunity to review the last 12 months in the loans market. Although some optimistic predictions from last year’s conference have not been fulfilled, the loan market has developed to become a stronger and more relevant funding tool.

The Bank of England’s Trends in Lending report has revealed that bank funding for large UK corporate borrowers is now more attractive than it has been for years. But canny corporate treasurers are way ahead of the curve, and have already shifted their financing strategies to take advantage of the latest glut of lending.