Euromoney Awards for Excellence Regional 2018 | Euromoney Seminars Ltd. | 26 April 2018 | Grosvenor House, Al Emreef Street, Dubai Marina - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

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Candidates for regional awards are not limited to those firms that can demonstrate panregional capabilities. Although breadth of business remains an important differentiator, banks or investment banks that can show they are ‘best in class’ in any given category should feel welcome to submit, even if they are more localised in their business; their submissions will be given full consideration.

While league tables 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.

Categories:

The region’s best bank:
This award will be given to the region’s best bank. This could be either a pan-regional banking group or a best-in-class country award winner. 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.

The region’s best investment bank:
This award will be given to the 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. This year, we are including a firm’s markets (ie sales and trading) business within this category, rather than considering it separately.

The region’s 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, in the region for all client sectors.

The region’s best bank for advisory:
This award will go to the firm that can demonstrate best-in-class advice to clients in all sectors around M&A, restructuring, risk management and regulatory issues. Remember good advice can be recommending to clients that they should not do something as well as that they should.

The region’s 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, helping clients not just within the region but also around the world.

The region’s best bank for wealth management:
The winner of this award will be a private bank that can demonstrate a proven track record in providing best-in-class service to wealth management clients in the region, combining excellence in advice, products, technology and innovation, as well as demonstrating growth in client assets and revenues.

The region’s 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 – a firm that has put digital at the heart of its business.

The region’s best bank for corporate responsibility:
This award will go to a bank that shows commitment to one or more of the following: fostering diversity and inclusion; reducing the environmental impact of operations; promoting workforce development and social mobility; innovative and impactful initiatives to strengthen local communities in which banks are domiciled; and ethical business conduct.

The region’s best bank for sustainable finance:
This award will go to a bank that demonstrates commitment to one or more of the following: 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; microfinance, financial inclusion and use of balance sheet for low-income communities; community development and social finance projects; and stewardship/active ownership.

The region’s 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 last 12 months across financing, advice, trade, cash management and growth initiatives. We define SMEs according to the guidelines set out by European Commission.

The region’s best bank transformation:
This award will recognise a bank that has fundamentally transformed its business model or offering to clients over the last 12 months. It must also demonstrate that this transformation is now paying dividends in terms of business performance.