Awards

GlobalCapital Asia's Best Investment Grade Syndicated Loan of 2021 is Indonesia Asahan Aluminimum's $1.5bn loan, split between a $750m five year term loan and $750m three year revolving credit facility.

GlobalCapital Asia's Best High Yield Syndicated Loan and Best Loan of 2021 is Grab Holdings' $2bn term loan B.

GlobalCapital Asia's 2021 winner of the Best Leveraged/Acquisition Finance award is Blackstone's $817.9m five year loan for the leveraged buyout of Mphasis.

For 2021, GlobalCapital Asia's winner of the Best Bond and Best SSA Bond awards is the Republic of Indonesia's $1.25bn and €500m SDG bonds with a concurrent tender offer of $1.25bn.

GlobalCapital Asia's 2021 winner of the Best High Yield Corporate Bond award is Pakuwon Jati's $300m 4.875% seven non-call four year bond.

The GlobalCapital Asia award for Best Investment Grade Corporate Bond for 2021 goes to Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur’s $1.75bn bond, split between a $1.15bn 3.398% 10 year and $600m 4.745% 30 year bond.

GlobalCapital Asia's Best Structured Finance Deal of 2021 is Bayfront Infrastructure Management's landmark $401.2m multi-tranche infrastructure ABS.

GlobalCapital Asia's Best Financial Bond of 2021 is insurance firm AIA’s €750m 12 non-call seven year 0.88% tier two bond.

GlobalCapital Asia's choice for 2021's Best ESG bond is JSW Hydro Energy’s $707m 10 non-call five year 144A/Reg S green bond.

In the first award of its kind for GlobalCapital Asia, BNP Paribas is named the Most Transformed Loan House for 2021.

In yet another challenging year for Asian loans, one bank stood out for its ability and willingness to step up for its clients, for making bold calls when others shied away and for remaining a leader in the market.

In 2021, when the world stepped into the second year of pandemic and credit markets started witnessing more volatility and stress, one bank stood out from the pack — HSBC.