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A bank’s sustainability strategy cannot exist without high-quality data. UBS has made it its mission to source the best.
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The tokenization of real-world assets is spreading fast, requiring the leaders of traditional finance to respond.
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From small-scale asset financing to innovative technologies, the French bank understands what a credible transition plan looks like.
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Christian Sewing has turned Deutsche Bank around. The firm has a resilience now that would have seemed unlikely when he was appointed chief executive five years ago. By his own admission, some of the toughest work is still to be done. But the past year and the most recent banking crisis have provided a striking validation of the strategy he set in place.
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Citi’s refocused strategy is bearing fruit as growing corporate balance sheets position it for business.
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Public-sector receptivity to innovation in sustainability and tokenization helped HSBC show the markets a glimpse of the future of bonds.
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Servicing demanding SME clients pays off if you take the long-term view.
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Veteran Morgan Stanley investment bankers describe this as the busiest downturn they have ever seen. That is because they have worked on the biggest and most transformative deals in 12 months of shifting values and at times paralyzing uncertainty. The firm has made some cuts, but its new leaders are shaking the business up and bringing in the talent that will be in demand once markets settle.
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HSBC continues to lead from the front as trade finance reinvents itself.
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The Spanish lender continues to demonstrate the business case for inclusivity.
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The past year posed extraordinary financing challenges for the world’s corporates. However, the political and economic conditions they faced also created an opportunity for creative banks to thrive.
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The US firm provides the right strategic advice for volatile markets.
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Citi’s crown jewels sparkle in a record-breaking year for the business.
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A massive budget and a focus on in-house development have made the bank a digital innovator.
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The bank is prepared to make tough decisions to meet its sustainability targets.
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In the US, JPMorgan has 55 dedicated private banking offices, from Austin to Seattle, and Cincinnati to Fort Lauderdale. Elsewhere, it focuses heavily on serving high and ultra-high net-worth customers in Europe, where it has eight offices, including the UK and Germany, Asia, through Hong Kong and Singapore, and Latin America, with clients served out of Miami, New York and Switzerland.
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The growing weight of non-European markets speaks volumes about the Spanish bank’s EM capabilities as other global banks have headed for the exit.
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BNP Paribas has a well-earned reputation for steadiness and stability. In the past year, its chief executive, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, has also reinforced his strategic credentials with the bank’s well-timed exit from its US retail business. Today, the bank stands as the eurozone leader on the global stage and is ready to play a pivotal role in the continent’s financial development.
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The US bank prides itself on already looking like the world we live in.
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The Singapore bank has strengthened its proposition to serve under-represented communities and aligned its own lending operations to make an impact.
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After reorganizing its fixed income business and boosting its presence in equities, BofA is making a bid to become a dominant force in global markets.
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Citi’s securities services business has put in an excellent year both in terms of new business and digital innovation.
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Recent volatility has proved that crisis preparation is the key to success in banking.
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The US firm stood out for its response to volatility and ability to think ahead.
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Hamburg Commercial Bank is almost unrecognizable from its former incarnation as one of Germany’s most troubled state-owned banks. Now in private hands, it is proving that even legacy banks in the most sheltered parts of European finance can become dynamic and profitable institutions.
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The bank has achieved growth by extending its traditional private banking services to the mass affluent segment in Brazil.
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The French bank has been busy with landmark deals and financial innovation.
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The French bank is not only effecting internal change but is also using itself as a catalyst for wider transition.
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The businesses for which Goldman Sachs is most renowned dominated investment banking last year – but so much else is going on. The firm is enjoying the pay-off from a long effort to expand middle-market coverage and has successfully built a transaction banking platform from scratch that it can now scale up.
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The US bank’s leadership on diversity is based on its commitment to transparency.
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Banks must be able to demonstrate their ability to give the right advice in both good times and bad. Morgan Stanley shows how it is done.
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The French bank has long had global scale in fixed income, now it has the same ambitions for its equity franchise too.
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The global wealth expert has expanded its vision, horizon and profits this year
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Not content with consolidating its position at the top of the SSA rankings, JPMorgan is increasingly working with public-sector clients in frontier markets.
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From energy transition to Libor transition, the French bank is the go-to firm for many corporate clients in a time of flux. This is the result of longstanding relationships and new investment in core sectors of the franchise.
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The bank is successfully exporting its SME expertise and advanced financial technology across Asia.
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The financial inclusion skills within the bank are becoming more relevant for broader retail banking.
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The firm’s strategic focus on mid-market transactions gave it a critical advantage in a banner year for M&A.
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Investments in new industry sub-sectors have given Goldman Sachs’ financial institutions franchise a new growth engine.
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New layers on strong foundations have built enduring success in digital for the US firm.
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The Malaysian bank has a number of programmes to help the underprivileged across nine countries.
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The drive to make finance sustainable relies on robust data. This is something that the French bank has been working on for a decade.
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HSBC has long dominated global trade finance but has also been at the forefront of digital innovation this year.
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Under the leadership of Brian Moynihan, Bank of America has become the poster child for stakeholder capitalism in banking. Shareholders benefit; previous strong underwriting and ample liquidity enabled it to grow loans strongly in the pandemic recovery; and management is confident it can weather the coming downturn.
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DBS has taken the boldest step yet in digital DCM, encouraging corporate and financial borrowers to self-issue commercial paper direct to investors. Volumes are strong. The next step, longer-dated bonds, will come soon.
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Network and scale make all the difference in a business where cost pressure is intense.
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Unbeatable data drives everything behind CashPro, and the platform drives payments and treasury at Bank of America in turn.
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The bank’s commitment to Asia’s frontier markets is yielding strong results.
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The Singapore-based lender has established a new benchmark for SME banking
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The Spanish group’s retail footprint makes it uniquely qualified to address unbanked, underbanked and financially vulnerable individuals.
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In a period of unprecedented volatility and disruption, Goldman Sachs has led the field in innovative financing solutions for clients.
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A flurry of new services, including DBS Digital Exchange and Climate Impact X, have kept the Singaporean lender in pole position.
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A firm famous for its elite connections, aggressive corporate culture and extreme working hours might not seem an obvious candidate for this award, but it is the right one.
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Diversification and a more relationship-focused approach to clients helped Goldman Sachs grow its markets business more than any of its big rivals over the awards period.
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The French bank’s innovative and collaborative approach to data is central to its sustainable finance strategy.
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It’s a sign of a well-run bank when it not only survives a pandemic largely unscathed but uses it as an opportunity to gain ground. Characteristically, DBS’s Piyush Gupta not only kept the bank on course but used the crisis to make two potentially transformative acquisitions, launch two new exchanges and think afresh about what banking should look like.
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In a year when the race to net zero really got under way, biodiversity protection rose to the top of the agenda and Covid exacerbated the need for social support, one bank stood out for innovation, breadth of coverage and rigorous use of data
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Bank of America’s integrated and pioneering approach to corporate responsibility has paid off again this year.
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The firm leads in big, transformational M&A and sees advising on the sell side of Spac mergers as a hedge if regulators crack down on mega-deals.
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Technology keeps BofA at the vanguard of payments. Covid-19 drove both deposits and innovation at the US bank.