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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.

AFE Highlights
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30+ Years
The Awards for Excellence were established more than 30 years ago and remain the most prestigious and sought-after accreditation in the industry.
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600+ Banks
Over 600 banks enter the Awards for Excellence every year, making it the most comprehensive programme in the industry
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100+ Countries
The Awards for Excellence are truly global, with banks from over 100 countries entering each year
Awards Key Dates
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2025 Submissions Opening Soon

2024 Winners are now live.

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
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ABOUT THE AWARDS

From 24 global awards – including the world’s best bank, investment bank, and banker of the year – to ten awards per region and eight per country, 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.

Judging & Research Process
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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.

  • For the second year in a row, Standard Bank walks away with the award for the best bank in Africa. And for good reason.
  • 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.
  • Nerves were jangling hard in Europe last year, when the panic that had seen many tens of billions of dollars’ worth of deposits flee large US regional banks in a matter of hours suddenly began emerging in Europe.
  • After depositors fled the wreckage of the US regional banks in 2023 and customers started jumping overboard from a sinking Credit Suisse, even more banks could have been dragged into a systemic crisis. But UBS, rebuilt after the global financial crisis as a strong, sustainable and well-managed institution, responded to the rescue call from a fellow G-Sib. It rescued Switzerland as a financial centre, stopped the panic from spreading and struck a good deal for its own shareholders. Credit Suisse was not a gift. The integration will be tough. But UBS has got off to a good start and could soon relaunch its own growth story.
  • For many US regional banks, the priority in the first part of 2023 was simply survival. But for the very best, ambitions went much further than that. For its excellent financial performance, the product of wise decisions made years ago and the continued execution of an impressive strategy, Fifth Third is the US's best super-regional bank.
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