Euromoney hosts its first private banking dinner since 2019.

In a momentous year for the industry, the top tier of trade finance banks remained remarkably stable in this year’s Trade Finance Survey. Supply chain disruption will continue to bedevil the sector and liquidity provision together with digital innovation will place sizeable demands on trade finance banks in 2022.

JPMorgan is named the world’s best wealth manager in Euromoney’s latest private banking and wealth management survey. It is testament to the US bank’s global strength in serving the wealthiest families, along with its drive to constantly transform itself and boost diversity as it hires the most talented relationship managers in core markets.

This year’s cash management survey sees banks looking beyond purely pandemic-related challenges to focus on sustainable finance and investment in technology.

Covid-19-fuelled supply chain disruption is helping to funnel global real estate demand to residential, life sciences and logistics.

DBS is the world’s best bank and Morgan Stanley is the world’s best investment bank in Euromoney’s 2021 Awards for Excellence. New awards recognise financial innovation and the growing importance of ESG in banking.

The Singapore-based lender has established a new benchmark for SME banking

The Spanish group’s retail footprint makes it uniquely qualified to address unbanked, underbanked and financially vulnerable individuals.

In a period of unprecedented volatility and disruption, Goldman Sachs has led the field in innovative financing solutions for clients.

A flurry of new services, including DBS Digital Exchange and Climate Impact X, have kept the Singaporean lender in pole position.

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.

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.

The French bank’s innovative and collaborative approach to data is central to its sustainable finance strategy.

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.

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

Bank of America’s integrated and pioneering approach to corporate responsibility has paid off again this year.

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.

Technology keeps BofA at the vanguard of payments. Covid-19 drove both deposits and innovation at the US bank.

Euromoney’s inaugural award for innovation goes to a groundbreaking issue of digital native tokens on a public blockchain in a syndicated bond deal that drew interest from 100 investors. While institutional money flows into crypto and DeFi, leading banks and issuers are now also keen to transform traditional markets with digital assets and digital cash.

Renowned for its prudence and conservatism, the bank was in a strong position going into the pandemic. Investment in digital banking and risk management make it well placed to thrive once the crisis is over.

The great financial innovator shone again in global wealth management.

In a tough year, quality and quantity mattered to the public sector. BNP Paribas offered both.

After merging with Bankia, CaixaBank has become the undisputed champion of Spanish retail banking. At a time when the sector is facing profound challenges, it’s already on the way to realizing crucial cost savings. Euromoney talks to executive chairman José Ignacio Goirigolzarri and chief executive Gonzalo Gortázar about this transformational merger.

The US bank has turned pandemic-inspired strategic conversations with companies into mandates.

A full range of best-in-class products, strong advisory capabilities and global reach are more important than ever in post-pandemic corporate banking.

Strength in equity capital markets and M&A, as well as a close relationship with the bank’s tech team, has created a winning formula this year.

The bank is keen to get started on taking the tough decisions needed to achieve net zero.

Under the leadership of James Gorman, Morgan Stanley has reshaped its business mix in ways that it thinks will position it for a world in which its clients need more connectivity than ever. Driving that process in its investment bank is co-president Ted Pick.

The region's best banks, country by country

The region's best banks, country by country