Euromoney's Awards for Excellence
The Original and Most Prestigious Awards in Banking
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The programme is the definitive annual awards programme for the banking industry, celebrating the achievements of banks and bankers from across the globe.
2025 Submissions Now Open
Submissions Closing
Middle East: Friday 14 February
Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe: Friday 14 March
Research Interviews: February - April 2025
Winners Notified
Middle East: April 2025
Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe: May 2025
Awards Ceremonies
Middle East: May 2025, Dubai
Africa, the Americas, and Europe: July 2025, London
Asia: September 2025, Singapore
Transaction Banking and Securities Services: October/November 2025, Location TBC
For over 30 years, Euromoney has recognised the banks and bankers that have demonstrated their differentiation, pioneering a comprehensive awards programme that today remains the industry benchmark globally.
Winning an award for excellence is a career-defining achievement and your chance to gain well-deserved recognition from your peers, in an industry where differentiation is highly sought after and exceptionally difficult to demonstrate.
Easier to enter and covering more of the industry than ever before, Euromoney’s 2025 Awards for Excellence are the most prestigious awards of their kind.
ABOUT THE AWARDS
From global awards – including the world’s best bank, investment bank, and banker of the year – to regional and country/territory awards, Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence cover the areas of banking most important to a bank’s key stakeholders, board and executive management teams.
Each award is submission-based, allowing each bank to tell the story of its achievements, innovations and performance over the 12-month award period.
We seek the best of the best in banking services globally, regionally and in each country. As every year, size is important but certainly not paramount. Profitability is vital, but so is an ability to demonstrate growth, relative out performance compared with peers and the ability to adapt to changing market conditions and/or client needs.
THE JUDGING AND RESEARCH PROCESS
Once submissions have been received, our team of editors, journalists and researchers will undertake thorough analysis of their content.
In conjunction with our own market knowledge and research, this will then be used to inform final decisions made by our editorial committee.
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When Scotiabank’s long-serving chief executive Brian Porter stepped down at the end of January 2023, after 10 years at the helm and more than 40 years at the bank, he left an institution that was in better shape than he found it, but one that still had much to do. -
BBVA achieved impressive momentum in Latin America during 2023, winning individual best bank awards in Colombia and Mexico, and coming close in Peru. Its bank in Argentina also posted respectable growth and is poised to take advantage of a potentially more benign economic outlook. The Spanish firm also capitalized on its market leading position in Mexico to win the award for the country’s best investment bank and is also Latin America’s best bank for transaction services – a landmark win in an sector that has traditionally been dominated by US banks.
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The strategic case for banks to remain in central and eastern Europe remains intact: that is the official line from Scope Ratings at least. The agency found that faster growth and higher interest rates in CEE have, overall, boosted the profitability of western European banks present in the region.
