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: Wednesday 21 May 2025, Dubai
Africa, the Americas, and Europe: Thursday 17 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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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. -
For the second year in a row, HSBC walks away with the award for Asia’s best bank – and deservedly so. Outgoing chief executive Noel Quinn’s decisive move in early 2020 to pivot to Asia by redeploying $100 billion in risk-weighted assets has delivered, generating strong new income streams and squeezing more gains from key product lines such as wealth management and transaction banking.
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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.
