Islamic finance awards: Best sukuk house

If the best sukuk house award was purely a matter of which bank has the most business there would be no competition: CIMB Islamic would easily win. But biggest does not necessarily mean best and while CIMB Islamic has executed several impressive deals it lacks HSBC Amanah’s breadth of business. CIMB Islamic is a Malaysian sukuk house; HSBC Amanah is global. That doesn’t mean HSBC wins the award purely for its range of business: if that were the case, it would win every year. The deals themselves have to stack up. This year they do.