Awards

BM&FBOVESPA, Brazil’s sole bourse, has been at the forefront of developing liquidity in the listed derivatives market in Latin America. It has seen growth in many of its commodity futures contracts, such as coffee futures, while also continuing to innovate across other asset classes, with one example being the deployment of non-deliverable forwards last July. That helped the exchange win this year’s GlobalCapital Americas Derivatives Latin America Exchange of the Year.

Tradeweb has introduced more functionality in regard to streaming prices on its swap execution facility in order to provide market participants with quicker access to prices. This, among other areas of its product offering, is why Tradeweb received Global Capital’s SEF Platform Of The Year award as part of its Americas Derivatives Awards.

UBS’ structured product platform, Equity Investor, is an example of a unique tool enabling clients to design a product that can then be priced and traded instantaneously. The firm’s pricing, structuring and electronic capabilities resulted in it being crowned the 2014 Americas Structured Products House Of The Year by Global Capital.

S&P Dow Jones Indices’ recent push to become a fully-fledged player in the fixed income marketplace, in addition to its strong presence across other asset classes, was lauded by market participants. That drive the firm’s achievement in winning the 2014 Global Capital Americas Index Provider Of The Year award.

Goldman Sachs won the Americas Derivatives House Of The Year award and the U.S. Derivatives House Of The Year award at the Global Capital Derivatives Americas Awards ceremony on Tuesday evening, which saw the firm win five awards in total. Bank Of America Merrill Lynch came away with the credit and fx award categories, while UBS won the structured products award and the electronic trading award for its Neo platform. Other winners on the night included Tradeweb SEF, BlackRock, Metlife, Société Générale and CME Group. The award ceremony was sponsored by Milliman.

The skillset and experience of Marty Chavez is superlative—few can boast the same degree of commercial and technological savoir-faire that has brought such success to a wide array of businesses across all asset classes and functions

The voting deadline for GlobalCapital’s 2014 bond awards dinner is fast approaching, so make sure to go to our polling site (link below) and make your selections for the top banks and borrowers in the FIG, high yield, SSAs, MTNs, corporates and emerging markets!

The country enjoyed some impressive transactions on the back of a resurgent equity market and companies conducting acquisitions, especially SoftBank. ASIAMONEY reveals the top deals of 2013. By Peter McGill.

Several banks impressed in 2013, during a year of renewed capital markets activity. ASIAMONEY reveals which banks stood tallest. By Peter McGill.

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.

Over the next two pages are the winners of the EuroWeek Syndicated Loans Awards 2013, as voted for by market participants in a poll that was conducted in November and early December last year. The awards were announced at EuroWeek’s gala dinner on Wednesday February 12, at London’s Guildhall.