The GlobalCapital Covered Bonds Awards 2020

• The GlobalCapital Covered Bonds Awards 2020

  This year almost 400 people responded to the covered bond awards survey, including more than 50 issuers and 200 investors, who said they had bought well over €100bn covered bonds in the past year, with collective covered bond assets under management in excess of €800bn.

• Winners and runners-up

• Covered Bonds Awards 2020: Results breakdown

• Covered Bond House of the Year - HSBC

  The evolution of the global covered bond market in recent years has played to HSBC’s strengths and does a lot to vindicate the bank’s approach to the product.

• Best Euro Issuer - Caisse Française de Financement Local

  Caisse Française de Financement Local (Caffil), the covered bond issuer of the SFIL Group, is strongly established as the leading public sector covered bond issuer, with more than €50bn of outstanding bonds, including 22 benchmarks. In particular, it dominates the long-maturity segment, with 60% of its issuance in maturities of 10 year or longer.

• Best Euro Lead Manager for Covered Bonds - LBBW

  It’s human nature; when times are tough you revert to the tried and trusted when you need something doing. And covered bond houses don’t come more tried and trusted than LBBW.

• Best Syndicate Manager - Crédit Agricole CIB

  What does it take to excel as a covered bond syndicate manager in a period of market disruption?

• Best Bank for Distribution - DZ BANK

  Germany is the ancestral home of covered bonds, so it’s no surprise that to win an award for distribution, a dealer must be strong in the German market. But covered bonds are also Germany’s greatest export success story in the capital markets, so strength at home isn’t enough — a dealer must also have a deep reach into the large community of institutional asset managers across Europe and Asia as well as into official institutions across the globe that are investing in the asset class.

• Best Bank for Structuring and ALM - Barclays

  Repeating success year-in, year-out is a difficult business. Even Michael Jordan’s trail-blazing Chicago Bulls team had a couple of off years in the middle of their 1990s winning streak. It’s quite some achievement, then, that Barclays has now won the GlobalCapital Best Bank for Structuring and ALM award six times in a row.

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