Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the winners of the International Financing Review Awards 2013.
IFR is the authoritative source of capital markets intelligence and the IFR Awards represent the key industry benchmark of global capital markets excellence. Winners are selected by IFR's independent, global team of expert reporters and analysts.
Key winners are below and a full list of winners can be found onwww.ifre.com:
Bank of the Year – Goldman Sachs
Bond House – Deutsche Bank
Equity House – Goldman Sachs
Loan House – Deutsche Bank
Structured Finance House – Credit Suisse
Derivatives House – Citigroup
Restructuring Adviser – Houlihan Lokey
Emerging Markets Bond House – Citigroup
High-Yield Bond House – Deutsche Bank
Issuer of the Year – Volkswagen
“Global capital markets benefited hugely from monetary stimulus from major central banks during 2013. Governments, financial institutions and corporations took full advantage of the strong rally in equity and credit markets to issue in impressive volumes across multiple markets. As ever, selecting award winners was a difficult task,” said Matthew Davies, Editor of IFR.
“Goldman Sachs had a particularly impressive year across its financing and advisory franchise. The firm dominated equity capital markets and M&A activity across the globe and made impressive strides in primary debt capital markets both in terms of fees earned and league table presence,” Davies added.
The IFR Awards will be presented at the 19th Annual IFR Awards Gala Dinner, attended by over 1,000 senior investment bankers on 22 January, 2014 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, President of Save the Children, will attend the dinner, which is the charity's largest annual fund raiser, and last year raised over £1 million. Over £21 million has been raised for Save the Children at IFR Awards dinners.
