Awards

Manila-based Asian Development Bank was one of the first two foreign issuers to tap China’s onshore bond market. In 2005, ADB, together with International Finance Corp, opened the Panda bond market with a Rmb1bn ($157m) 10 year deal.

GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 19th Annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards in November.

GlobalCapital has closed the nominations stage of it annual European securitization awards — shortlists and pitched awards next

Effective risk management assumed even greater importance over the last 12 months as Asian market participants sought help navigating upheaval in global markets.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards for 2021 on Wednesday night at a gala event in London

Many law firms claim, but few can demonstrate truly global connectivity and collaboration between partners and practice areas in parallel with the provision of deep financial markets experience and expertise across transactional, product and regulatory issues.

On a number of fronts, Eurex excelled in its support of, and offering to, the derivatives market in the past year. It demonstrated its strength as Europe’s largest and one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, and an ability to innovate and push forward new segments in risk transfer markets.

Across several areas of the interest rate derivatives business, Nomura distinguished itself from the competition in the past year, not only stepping in to provide clients with crucial liquidity, but also supporting them with a valuable mix of timely and authoritative advice and market-leading structuring and execution capabilities.

According to technology consultant Celent, conventional rules-based paradigms of approaching risk and compliance obligations have given way to risk-based approaches where greater supervision intensity is placed on high risk or systemically important financial institutions, appropriate conduct, and emergent systemic risks.

Ever the powerhouse in derivatives, Société Générale CIB won Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives and Structured Products House of the Year in GlobalCapital's annual Americas awards for the industry earlier this year.

Big isn’t necessarily the best. But when it comes to being a covered bond issuer, and a green bond issuer this year, it was certainly helpful. According to our poll of market participants, BPCE, one of the biggest issuers in the covered bond market was also one of the best, nominated in an incredible five categories and scooping the prestigious awards for both Issuer of the Year and Best Euro Deal of the Year.

Warren Buffet famously joked that only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked. A year when the tide has been a long way out for the covered bond market – low funding needs, negative yields and poor liquidity – has been a true test of covered bond banks. LBBW’s long term commitment to the market, and yet willingness to innovate has been more important than ever and has made them GlobalCapital’s Covered Bond House of the Year.