Battling to join the elite: Poll of polls
Poll of Polls: Overall results
The scores of this year's Poll of Polls were compiled using the following surveys and league tables. For banks which merged during 1997 (up to December 2) the scores of the constituent firms were added. Underwriting
Overall capital raising: market users' votes for best bank at raising capital
Eurobonds: issuers' votes for the best Eurobond lead manager and syndicate chiefs' nominations for the top bookrunner in nine currencies; bookrunner league table of international bonds (source: Capital Data Bondware)
mtns: borrowers' votes for EMTN and US MTN arrangers and EMTN arranger league table (source: Capital NET MTNware)
Eurocommercial paper: users' votes for and league table of ECP arrangers (source: Capital Data Loanware)
Equities: borrowers' and syndicate heads' views on global coordination, IPOs and secondary offerings; global coordinator and bookrunner league tables of international equities (source: Capital Data Bondware)
Trading
Eurobond trading: chief bond dealers' votes for Eurobond trading
Government bond trading: votes for best bank at government bond trading
mtns: borrowers' nominations for best EMTN and US MTN dealers EMTN dealer league table (source: Capital NET MTNware)
Eurocommercial paper: market users' views on best ECP dealers and league table of ECP dealers (source: Capital Data Loanware)
Derivatives: borrowers' and peers' views on top banks covering 14 categories of interest rate and currency swaps
Equity: issuers' votes on equity execution; syndicates' views on after-market support
Foreign exchange: corporate treasurers' votes for the top houses by market share
Advisory
Economic research: investors' views on the leading names in the field
Emerging market research: investors' votes on the top firms
Risk management: corporate treasurers' views on risk management
European equity research: votes on the best banks in the sector
Asian equity research: investors' nominations for best Asian research
m&a: worldwide league tables of advisers to target and acquirer companies for announced, pending and completed transactions (source: IFR Securities Data London)
Privatization: syndicate chiefs' votes for best advisers on privatization issues
This poll was compiled from Euromoney's foreign-exchange, bond-traders, European-brokers, Asian-brokers and global-financing polls published in 1997.