Poll of Polls: Warburg's excellently average performance
Poll of polls: Overall results
Poll of polls: Underwriting results
Poll of polls: Trading results
Poll of polls: Advising results
This year's Poll of Polls was compiled from 1998 league tables and Euromoney surveys.
Underwriting
* Overall capital raising: market users' votes for best bank at raising capital
* Bonds: issuers' and syndicate chiefs' votes for best lead manager for top bookrunner in 10 categories; bookrunner league table of international bonds (Source: Capital Data Bondware)
* MTNs: borrowers' votes for EMTN arrangers; EMTN arranger league table (source: Capital Net MTNWare)
* Euro-commercial paper: users' votes for ECP arrangers; ECP arranger league table (source: Capital Net CPWare)
* Equities: borrowers' and syndicates' views on global coordination, IPOs, privatizations, secondary offerings and block trades; global coordinator and bookrunner league tables of international equities (source: Capital Data Bondware)
Trading
* Eurobonds: chief bond dealers' votes for Eurobond trading
* Government bonds: votes for best bank at government bond trading
* MTNs: borrowers' nominations for best EMTN dealers; EMTN dealer league table (source: MTNWare)
* Euro-commercial paper: market users' views on best ECP dealers; ECP dealer league table (source: Capital Net CPWare)
* Derivatives: borrowers' and peers' views on top banks covering nine categories of interest-rate swaps and cross currency swaps
* Equities: issuers' votes on equity execution
* Foreign exchange: corporate treasurers' and institutional investors' votes for the top houses by market share
Advising
* FX research: corporate treasurers' and institutional investors' nominations for foreign exchange research
* Risk management: borrowers' views on risk management
* Credit research: investors' votes for best providers of European credit research
* European equity research: votes on the best banks in the sector
* Asian equity research: investors' nominations for best Asian analyst
* M&A: worldwide league tables of advisors to target and acquirer companies for announced, pending and completed transactions (source: IFR Securities Data)
The survey was compiled using the following Euromoney polls published in 1998:
Foreign exchange (May)
Bond trading (May)
European credit research (May)
Global financing (September)
Asian broking (September)
European broking (October)
League tables cover the period...