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European Securitization Awards 2027 - Call for Nominations

European Securitization Awards 2027: Call for Nominations

GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2027 European Securitization Awards. Please read through the instructions carefully to ensure that your votes are counted accurately. 

The GlobalCapital European Securitization Award winners and nominees are decided based on a two-stage poll of market participants. The first stage of the process – the call for nominations – is now open. The poll will close on 12 November 2026. Those active in the European securitization market are invited to put themselves, their colleagues, clients and peers forward to be shortlisted. Using these nominations, the GlobalCapital editorial team will compile a shortlist in each category. This will be published in December and opened to voting by the market to choose the winners.

We’d also welcome your views on the market’s performance in 2026 and outlook for 2027. Please take a few minutes to complete our End of Year Review 2026 / Outlook 2027 survey. All results will be anonymized, and the results will be shared with participants once available. You can return to the awards nominations survey after completing it.

If you have any questions about the awards, please contact Ekta Kharat. For sponsorship enquiries, or to book a table, please contact our sales team.
 

1. Our award category list is updated every year, to reflect the diversity, innovation, and plethora of business models across the European securitization landscape.

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Welcome to GlobalCapital’s 2027 European Securitization Awards!

The GlobalCapital European Securitization award winners and nominees are decided based on a two-stage poll of market participants, canvassing opinion on the deals and institutions that have really stood out and made an impact over 2026. 

The winners are decided through a two-step process. The first stage of the process – the call for nominations – is now open. The poll will close on 12 November. This is open to anyone active in the securitization market to put themselves, their colleagues, clients and peers forward to be shortlisted. Using these nominations, the GlobalCapital editorial team will compile a shortlist in each category. This will be published in December and opened to voting by the market to choose the winners. 

POLLED AWARDS – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 

Market participants are invited to put themselves, their colleagues, clients and peers forward to be shortlisted. When making your nominations, you should consider the organisations which have been involved in the most innovative or challenging transactions, the quality of execution and structuring; investment, growth, and progression in the business, or those who have stood out for the breadth and depth of their securitization franchises. Deal nominations should consider factors such as innovation, timing and reading of the market and reach among investors. 

We encourage you to nominate widely outside of your own organisations, but you are also free to nominate you own deals and teams. You have two choices in each category, so if you are nominating your own organisation or deal, please also nominate a peer as a second choice. This is your opportunity to shape the shortlist, so consider your nominations carefully. You are welcome to share the survey link as broadly as you like, but we urge you to avoid ‘block voting’, in which every response form is identical. 

Nominations should reflect firm and deal activity for the 2026 calendar year. 

If you are nominating your own organisation or deal, we invite you to provide a short submission to support your nomination. This should be a maximum of one side of A4, detailing key accomplishments during the research period in relation to a given category. This may include standout deal work, innovations or improvement in your product or service offering, examples of growth, and work support to clients in unusual or demanding circumstances. Differentiation is key and your submission should demonstrate how you have stood out from your competitors in your performance, what you offer to clients, or in your strategy. You may upload a single submission covering multiple categories or provide a separate submission for each relevant category in the survey. This information will be used exclusively for the purposes of the awards and will be kept confidential. The survey will still form the basis for choosing the nominees, but submissions will be used in aggregate to help us compile a representative and credible shortlist in each category. Our awards research team may follow up on your submission with a short call. 

While private or limited distribution financings are often the most interesting projects, please bear in mind that the next part of the process is a broad vote from across the European securitization market. It may therefore be best to nominate institutions or deals that are widely known in order to maximise the chances they will be recognised in the voting. We have also two pitched categories in the private space: Private Deal of the Year, recognising standout transactions in the private securitisation market, and Private Funding Provider of the Year, recognising providers making a significant contribution to funding private securitisation transactions.

PITCHED AWARDS

In addition to the polled awards, we have four awards that are pitched: Overall Bank of the Year, Private Securitization of the Year, Private Funding Provider of the Year and Overall Deal of the Year. If you would like to pitch, please get in touch with Ekta Kharat, Awards and Capital Markets Research Manager

Pitches will be held with the editorial team between November 2026 and January 2027.

The Bank of the Year and the Private Funding Provider award will go to a bank that has demonstrated the breadth and depth of its securitization franchise, leadership in innovative or challenging transactions, and quality of execution and structuring. Feedback and endorsement from clients and counterparties, investment, growth and progression in the business will also be considered. 

The Deal awards will recognise innovative or challenging transactions that have made a particularly strong impact on the market. This may include new deal structures, transactions that address new regulatory frameworks, first-in-kind deals or transactions that adapt existing technology to new markets or asset classes. The difficulty and intricacy of the innovation is assessed, as well as its likely market impact. GlobalCapital will consider the sophistication and complexity of the work and the impact of the innovation, as well as contextual challenges in execution. 

These pitches will largely be on the record, and we will use information gathered in the process to justify our decisions in the eventual writeup. However, mindful of the private nature of much of the market, we are happy to take portions of the discussion off record, if you wish to highlight situations which illustrate your institution’s capabilities, but which were never made public. We are happy to leave client names, financial terms etc out of any eventual writeup — simply make your preferences clear at the time of the pitch. The ultimate aim is that you should feel free to make the case for your institution as comprehensively as possible, across public and private aspects of securitization alike, without concern that confidential information will be circulated beyond GlobalCapital’s editorial team. 

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO SECURITIZATION

This award recognises individuals who have made huge contributions to the development of the market over the course of their careers, and who command universal respect among their peers. 

This is a special award entirely at the discretion of GlobalCapital editorial. However, informal suggestions are welcome, so please get in touch with Ekta Kharat if you would like to make a recommendation.
 

RISING STAR

This award recognises an individual under 35 years of age or with less than 15 years of experience in the industry. While the winner of this award will primarily be decided based on the survey, the individualistic nature of this award means that a short submission is particularly welcomed, so please get in touch with Ekta Kharat if you would like to make a recommendation.

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