Confirming last year’s success, CIMB Islamic is again the winner of The Banker’s Islamic Investment Banking award. Against stiff competition from larger international players, CIMB has climbed the league tables for both domestic sukuk and global sukuk issuances.
For the second year running, Merrill Lynch is our Hybrid Capital House of the Year. Against growing competition from other houses, Merrill has continued to bring new structures to market, create market standards, enhance existing features, expand the investor base and tailor ingenious solutions to individual objectives.
In the first six months of the year, Goldman Sachs has been involved in all of the top five transactions, advised on the most significant going-private transactions of the year to date, played a role in some of the most complex cross-border transactions and defended against a whole host of unsolicited M&A bids. Up against some stiff competition, Goldman retains The Banker’s M&A crown for the second year running.
Credit Suisse’s convertibles platform is firing on all cylinders. This is illustrated by last year’s Greenwich Survey, in which the bank’s convertibles sales and trading team was ranked first for overall quality, trading capability and salesforce capability.
JPMorgan occupies a consistently dominant position in capital raising for the financial institutions group (FIG). According to Ina De, co-head of ECM origination, it is the bank’s model of seamless connectivity between origination, syndicate, trading and distribution that differentiates JPMorgan’s offering from its competitors.
UBS is a worthy winner of The Banker’s IPO House of the Year Award. In the 12-month awards period, it has executed the most IPOs in terms of the number of issues and captured 9.9% of the global IPO market with the highest value of IPOs executed. Moreover, it is the only bank to be in the top two ranking in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA.