The Banker's Investment Banking Awards 2018 | Financial Times | Claridge's, Brook St, Mayfair, London W1K 4HR, UK

The Banker’s 12th annual Investment Banking Awards will be presented at a gala black-tie dinner to be held on 4 September at Claridge's Hotel, London. With a focus on celebrating innovation and creativity within the investment banking field over the past 12 months, these prestigious awards continue to set the benchmark for the industry.

Each year the event increases in stature, as an ever-growing pool of entries from global banks and nimble boutiques compete for the recognition of our expert judging panel. The 2017 event was a spectacular success, bringing together some of the world's most important and influential investment banking professionals.

Categories:

Most Innovative:
• Most innovative investment bank
• Most innovative independent investment bank
• Most innovative investment bank from Africa
• Most innovative investment bank from Asia-Pacific
• Most innovative investment bank from Central and Eastern Europe
• Most innovative investment bank from Latin America
• Most innovative investment bank from Middle East
• Most innovative investment bank from North America
• Most innovative investment bank from Western Europe

Product Awards:
• Bonds
• Climate change and sustainability
• Equity-linked products (including convertibles and exchangeables)
• Equity derivatives
• Foreign exchange
• IPOs and equity raising
• Infrastructure and project finance
• Islamic finance
• Leveraged finance (includes LBO loans, HY bonds and advisory work for financial sponsors)
• Syndicated loans
• M&A
• Private placements
• Restructuring
• Structured investor products
• Risk management (includes managing clients’ and banks’ own credit, market, liquidity, inflation/interest rate and macro risks)
• Securitisation

Coverage Awards:
• Consumer and retail goods
• Technology, media and telecoms
• Natural resources and commodities (includes all advisory work, commodities finance, hedging and trading)
• Emerging markets (includes all advisory work and capital markets transactions for EM entities)
• Financial institutions group (includes all advisory work and capital markets transactions for FIG such as banks and insurers)
• Sovereigns, supranationals and agencies (includes all advisory work, restructuring, privatisation and capital markets transactions for SSAs)