Investment Bank Awards
Call For Entries available in September 2026.
About This Award
In 2025, investment banks faced a more selective debt market, with firms prioritizing refinancing and targeted growth projects over broad new issuance. Meanwhile, M&A activity experienced renewed momentum, with leading firms in advisory and capital markets adapting to shifting interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty while continuing to drive major global deals.
Global Finance’s Best Investment Bank Awards celebrate the leading organizations across multiple global and regional categories, industry sectors, countries, territories and districts.
Global Finance uses a proprietary algorithm with criteria—such as market share, number and size of deals, service and advice, structuring capabilities, distribution network, efforts to address market conditions, innovation, pricing, after-market performance of underwritings and market reputation—to score and select winners. Entries from banks and input from industry experts is also considered.
Global Finance’s awards and recognition programs are the trusted standard of excellence for the financial industry. They are backed by a 39-year history of editorial accuracy and integrity. Global Finance’s corporate and financial audience depends on these awards because they are credible, reliable and have stood the test of time.
Winners will be published in the April 2026 print and digital editions as well as on GFMag.com. Honorees will be celebrated at Global Finance’s Best Investment Banks and Sustainable Finance Awards in London (Date TBA).
