The shortlists for the US Securitization Awards are chosen based on a call for nominations, canvassing opinion on the deals and institutions that have stood out and made an impact in the previous calendar year.

This is open for anyone active in the securitization market to put themselves, their colleagues, their clients or their peers forward to be shortlisted.

We strongly encourage you to nominate outside of your organisation, however, you can nominate your own deals and teams. You have two choices in each category, so if you are nominating your own organisation or deal, please also nominate a peer as a second choice.

When making your nominations, you should consider the organisations that have been involved in the most innovative or challenging transactions, and those that have stood out for the quality of their execution and structuring. You should also take into account investment, growth, and progression in the business and those who have stood out for the breadth and depth of their securitization franchises. Deal nominations should take into account factors such as innovation, timing, reading of the market and reach among investors.

You are welcome to share the survey link with your network, however please refrain from 'block voting', where every response form is identical.


Submissions guidelines:

• If you are nominating your own organisation or deal, you are invited to submit a short submission to support your nomination. This should be a maximum of one side of A4, highlighting key accomplishments during the research period in relation to the awards category. This may include standout deal work, innovations or improvements in your product or service offering, examples of growth, and work support to clients in unusual or demanding circumstances.

• The submission should clearly show how your organisation has stood out from competitors.

• You may upload a single submission covering multiple categories or provide a separate submission for each relevant awards category in the survey.

• All submissions will be treated as confidential and used solely for awards purposes.

• The survey will be the primary method for choosing nominees, but we will also review the submissions as a whole to compile a representative and credible shortlist for each category. Our awards research team may contact you with a brief call to follow up on your submission.

Based on the recommendations made in the call for nominations, GlobalCapital will compile a shortlist of nominees for each award category. Market participants are invited to vote on this shortlist to choose the winners.


Voting guidelines:

• You don't need to vote in every category for your votes to be counted.

• There is no limit on the number of individuals voting from any one institution.

• You may not vote for your own institution or affiliated entity.

• We encourage you to share the voting survey within your institution and with clients or counterparties. However, please ensure each participant completes their own response independently.

• While all votes are welcomed, GlobalCapital reserves the right to weight votes according to factors such as seniority, job role, institution type, or relevance to the award category.
  
  
  • For example, a vote from a portfolio manager at a major investor may carry more weight in investor-related categories than a vote from a non-investing entity.
  
  
  • Similarly, a vote from a regular issuer will be especially relevant in the arranging bank categories.

• GlobalCapital reserves the right to disqualify votes that are deemed invalid or inappropriate.

• We strongly discourage 'block voting' — defined as multiple identical submissions from the same institution — and we may remove suspected block votes when calculating the results.
  

Pitching guidelines:


In addition to the polled awards, we have three awards that are pitched. These are:

• Overall Bank of the Year
• Private Securitization of the Year
• Overall Deal of the Year

• Pitches will be held with the GlobalCapital editorial team between October and January. If you would like to pitch, please get in touch with our Head of Research & Awards.

• These pitches offer institutions an opportunity to present a comprehensive case for recognition.

• These pitches will mostly be on the record, and we will use the information gathered during the process to support our decisions in an eventual write-up. However, we are open to taking parts of the discussion off the record if you would like to highlight situations that showcase your institution’s capabilities but have not been made public. Our ultimate aim is for you to feel free to present a comprehensive case for your institution, covering both public and private aspects of securitization, without worrying that any confidential information will be shared beyond GlobalCapital’s editorial team.

Award criteria:


Overall Securitization Bank of the Year

• This award will be given to a bank that has demonstrated the breadth and depth in its securitization franchise.
  
  
  • Leadership in innovative or complex transactions.
    
    
  • Quality in its execution and structuring.

Feedback and endorsement from clients and counterparties, investment, growth and progression in the business will also be considered.

Esoteric ABS Bank of the Year and Innovative Deal of the Year

• These Awards recognise innovative and challenging transactions that have significantly impacted the market. This may include:
  
  
  • New deal structures
  
  
  • Transactions that address with new regulatory frameworks
  
  
  • First-of-their-kind deals or transactions that adapt existing technology for new markets or asset classes.

• GlobalCapital will evaluate both the difficulty and intricacy of the innovation, as well as its potential market impact. Additionally, the sophistication and intricacy of the work, the significance of the innovation, and the contextual challenges faced during execution will be assessed.