GlobalCapital US Securitization Awards 2025: winners announced

Participants from all corners of the US securitization industry gathered together at The Metropolitan Club of New York on Tuhrsday for GlobalCapital’s annual awards dinner.

Sold out for a second consecutive year, almost 250 guests packed into the room to celebrate the market’s successes over the last year and to raise a glass to the winning deals, organizations and individuals.

The market was celebrating a remarkable year, which saw several varieties of securitized products enjoy their biggest year of issuance since the 2008 financial crisis and many asset classes truly come into their own. It was undoubtedly a pivotal year in the development of data center ABS, middle market CLOs and non-QM RMBS, among others, while innovations also came to the fore in both on-the-run and esoteric asset classes.

The GlobalCapital Securitization Awards are unique in that they are decided by the market itself. This means that the winners are those the industry considers to be its leading lights.

Research for the awards began back in December, when the market was asked to nominate those that it deemed worthy of inclusion on the shortlist. The nominees were published in February and opened to a market vote to select the winners. Almost 2,000 individuals from all corners of the market cast their votes, resulting in over 160 nominees and more than 50 winners.

The exceptions to the vote were three pitched categories: Overall Securitization Bank of the Year, Esoteric ABS Bank of the Year and Innovative Deal of the Year.

These categories were chosen by our editorial team — after much deliberation — and winners were based on pitches received from the candidates themselves.

Morgan Stanley won the coveted Overall Securitization Bank of the Year award. The bank has made strides in RMBS and consumer and esoteric ABS, building on its already strong CMBS and CLO businesses. Above all, its holistic and integrated approach to securitization and structured finance — as the worlds of secured lending, private credit and capital solutions converge ever faster — stood out. Its strength across the board was highlighted by its role on almost all of the winning deals.

Guggenheim Securities scooped the Esoteric ABS Bank of the Year, standing out in a competitive field for its commitment to innovation, deep client coverage and strength in bringing new issuers to market.

CHASE 2024-DRT was named Innovative Deal of the Year. The transaction moved the US risk transfer market forward in a unique way, providing with a blueprint of how non-agency mortgage risk transfers could be done in the future.

Atlas SP Partners received the Editor's Choice Award, in recognition of its remarkable growth story following its acquistion by Apollo. It has bounced back over the last year, to reframe what it means to be an arranger of securitizations.

Congratulations to all our winners and nominees, and huge thanks to all those who took the time to pitch and vote in the poll. The full list of winners and nominees is below. Click here to download a PDF of the winners.

Pitched Awards

Overall Securitization Bank of the Year

Morgan Stanley

Esoteric ABS Bank of the Year

Guggenheim Securities

Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year

CHASE 2024-DRT

(Chase, JP Morgan)

Editor's Choice

Atlas SP Partners

Polled Awards