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Bond market's leading performers recognised at GlobalCapital's annual awards ceremony
The awards recognise the market's leading deals, issuers, banks and other participants
The winning organisations will be announced live at ceremonies in both London and New York this September
The leading institutions, deals, and individuals shaping 2025 were honoured at a ceremony held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City.
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  • In December, Dubai World, a government-owned investment giant, shocked global markets when it announced an estimated $14.4 billion debt restructuring plan. The announcement undermined the emirate’s global investment appeal at the end of the year. Yet it did little to dent Standard Chartered’s ambitions for the region, despite the fact that UK banks collectively had an estimated $50 billion exposure to the troubled investment company.
  • MDM Bank’s notable underperformance against its publicly listed Russian private banking peers in the crisis is perhaps inevitable given its large exposures to retail investors and small and medium enterprises. Even as the economy staged a rebound last year, non-performing loans remained at 15% in the third quarter.
  • MDM Bank’s notable underperformance against its publicly listed Russian private banking peers in the crisis is perhaps inevitable given its large exposures to retail investors and small and medium enterprises. Even as the economy staged a rebound last year, non-performing loans remained at 15% in the third quarter.
  • Attijariwafa has quietly expanded south over the past two years to become one of the largest African banks outside South Africa. At the tail end of 2008, the bank, under the watch of chief executive Mohamed El Kettani, announced what amounted to an epoch-making deal: a E250 million bid for Crédit Agricole of France’s retail banking assets.
  • Attijariwafa has quietly expanded south over the past two years to become one of the largest African banks outside South Africa. At the tail end of 2008, the bank, under the watch of chief executive Mohamed El Kettani, announced what amounted to an epoch-making deal: a E250 million bid for Crédit Agricole of France’s retail banking assets.
  • Al Rajhi is Saudi Arabia’s most profitable Islamic bank, generating $1.8 billion in 2009. Thanks to its position as the dominant retail force in Saudi Arabia, the bank has the biggest market share of unremunerated deposits, in line with Islamic finance provisions that prohibit deposit holders directly benefiting from interest rate-based income.