Euromoney Awards for Excellence Global 2018 | Euromoney Seminars Ltd. | 17 May 2018 | Hilton on Park Lane, 22 Park Ln, Mayfair, London W1K 1BE, UK

The aims of Euromoney’s awards for excellence are to reward banks and investment banks that can demonstrate an ability to deliver the different parts of their firms to meet clients’ needs and adapt to market and regulatory conditions and to consider candidates for these awards that might not be global in scale, but are truly world-class in the way they are run and in the services they deliver to clients.

While league tables and other comparative data remain a useful guide to our deliberations, the onus is on banks to show their excellence as a firm in delivering a clearly differentiated offering for their clients and in producing best in class financial performance. The goal of your
submissions should be to focus on these elements. Where possible, we also put great value on third-party endorsements: there is, after all, no better way of backing up your claims than having a client say your bank or firm did a great job for them.

We have given advance notice of the window during which interviews with shortlisted banks will take place. We hope this extra time and notice will help you to plan ahead for arranging those meetings, which are vitally important to our decision-making process.

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Best bank:
This award will go to an industry-leading bank that shows strong financial performance across key metrics; that has a clearly differentiated business model founded on the core strengths of its franchise; that has shown an ability to adapt to changing market and regulatory conditions; that is innovative; and has established a track record of delivering on its targets to shareholders and commitment to its clients.
Clive Horwood, Peter Lee

Best investment bank:
This award will be go to an industry-leading firm that shows an ability to deliver for its clients across investment banking products and sectors, including financing, advisory and markets, while demonstrating strong financial performance and risk management. The winner will need to prove it has a business mix that suits both the franchise of the firm and the changing market and regulatory environment.
Clive Horwood, Peter Lee, Mark Baker, Louise Bowman

Banker of the year:
The winner of this award will be a senior bank executive that has shown the value of their leadership over the review period, whether in establishing an industry-leading bank or business line, or in turning around the fortunes of an institution that was previously struggling. The will be able to demonstrate a clear and appropriate strategic vision that he or she has delivered on. Clive Horwood, Peter Lee

Best bank for financing:
This award will recognise the firm that stands out across debt and equity capital markets, lending (including structured and leveraged), M&A financing, risk management trades, etc. for all client sectors. Smart and innovative solutions are more important to this award than scale. Geographic diversity is a positive, and cross-asset class capabilities are a prerequisite of success. Louise Bowman, Mark Baker

Best bank for advisory:
This award will go to the firm that can demonstrate best-in-class advice to clients across corporates, FIG and SSAs around M&A, restructuring, risk management and regulatory issues. Innovation and an ability to demonstrate understanding of and response to clients’ needs are of primary importance. Remember: good advice can be recommending to clients that they should not do something as much as recommending what they should do. Mark Baker, Louise Bowman, Peter Lee

Best bank for markets:
This award will go to the bank that shows excellence and commitment to sales and trading in all important asset classes, providing consistent and well-priced liquidity, as well as demonstrating leadership in technology and research. The winning bank will need to demonstrate a best-inclass ability to continue to service their institutional clients in difficult market and regulatory conditions. Graham Bippart

Best bank for transaction services:
The winner of this award will be the bank that shows proven excellence in its corporate and financial institution relationships in cash management, payments and trade finance. An ability to help clients across geographies is important to this award, as is innovation through technology. Providing details of important client-mandate wins is important, as is demonstrating best-in-class financial performance. Kimberley Long

Best bank for wealth management:
The winner of this award will be a private bank or wealth management division that can demonstrate a proven track record in providing best-in-class service to wealth management clients on an international or global scale, combining excellence in advice, products, technology and innovation, as well as demonstrating growth in client assets and revenues and strong financial performance. Helen Avery

Best bank for corporates:
Banks submitting for this award will need to demonstrate their ability to provide banking services to corporates across credit and lending, capital markets financing, advisory, transaction services and risk management. There will be a particular focus on serving multi-national corporations. Louise Bowman, Mark Baker

Best bank for financial institutions:
Banks submitting for this award will need to demonstrate their ability to provide banking services to financial institutions across credit and lending, capital markets financing, advisory, liquidity provision, transaction services and risk management. A track record in multiple geographies will be important in this award. Mark Baker, Louise Bowman

Best bank for public-sector clients:
This award will focus on financing and advisory for sovereigns, supranationals and agencies, as well as other public-sector organizations such as export finance institutions. It will also incorporate the financing of large infrastructure projects. The winning bank will need to demonstrate international diversity in its business. Graham Bippart

Best bank in the emerging markets:
This award is open to two types of candidates: those that can demonstrate excellence across the emerging markets in multiple jurisdictions, or those that show best-in-class performance at a more local or regional level. Criteria will be broadly similar to those we use in the global best bank award. Dominic O’Neill, Chris Wright, Olivier Holmey

Best investment bank in the emerging markets:
This award is open to two types of candidates: those that can demonstrate excellence across the emerging markets in multiple jurisdictions, or those that show best-in-class performance at a more local or regional level. Criteria will be broadly similar to those we use in the global best investment bank award. Dominic O’Neill, Chris Wright, Olivier Holmey

Best bank for SMEs:
This award will go to the bank that can demonstrate outstanding commitment to the particular needs of small and medium-sized enterprises over the 12 months across financing, advice, trade, cash management and growth initiatives. Louise Bowman

Best digital bank:
This award will go to a bank that shows true leadership in its digital offering, whether in wholesale or retail banking or a combination of the two, using technology that clearly benefits both clients and the efficiency of the institution. It will show how digital banking is at the heart of its overall strategy. Peter Lee, Clive Horwood

Best Bank for corporate responsibility:
To win this award, a bank’s commitment to the following will be considered: fostering diversity and inclusion; reducing the environmental impact of operations; promoting workforce development and social mobility; innovative and effective initiatives to strengthen local communities in which banks are domiciled; and ethical business conduct. Helen Avery

Best bank for sustainable finance:
To win this award, a bank’s commitment to the following will be considered: advancing the growth of the ESG and impact investment industry through product development, measurement and reporting; green finance initiatives, including green bonds, conservation and carbon finance; micro finance, financial inclusion and use of balance sheet for low-income communities; community development and social finance projects; and stewardship/active ownership. Helen Avery

Best bank transformation:
This award will recognise a bank that over the 12 months under review has fundamentally transformed its business model or offering to clients, and can demonstrate that this transformation is now paying dividends in terms of business performance. Clive Horwood, Peter Lee, Dominic O’Neill, Chris Wright

Best independent investment bank:
This category is open to boutique or independent investment banks that are not part of deposittaking or balance-sheet lending institutions. Candidates will need to show how their model or offering complements or replaces the services of traditional investment banks to benefit clients; firms may be active across advisory and financing or specialists in particular markets, client sectors or product types. Peter Lee

Best bank for diversity and inclusion:
The winning bank will not only need to show a strong track record over the 12 months for initiatives promoting diversity and inclusion both within their own bank and the markets and industry more generally, but they will need to demonstrate that their diversity policy is having a positive effect on the performance of their bank and their offering to clients. Helen Avery

Best bank for financial inclusion:
The winning bank will be able to show a series of initiatives within its retail business that have created or improved services to the under-banked or unbanked. The bank will provide data on the number of individuals reached over the 12 months under review, as well as case studies to support the success of programmes, products or services to these two sectors.