The Bond Market Awards 2025

The Bond Market Awards 2026 - in association with The DESK

The Bond Markets Awards from Markets Media celebrate success and innovation in the fixed income markets. There are twenty-seven awards covering primary and secondary markets, recognising the most effective or innovative operators in fixed income today.

Judging and the building of shortlists will be conducted by our editorial board and judging panel, supported by nominations.

Where information provided in nominations is marked ‘confidential’, this will not be shared directly with the judges (as active industry members), but will be summarised by the editorial team for the judges in order to support the case for a nomination.

Judging panel:

Sabina Awan, (in personal capacity)
Juan Landazabal, GAM
Kirstie MacGillivray, Aegon Asset Management
Dwayne Middleton, T Rowe Price
Michelle Neal, Fnality
Malin Norberg, NBIM
Armin Peters, (in personal capacity, formerly UBS)
Sam Ratcliff, Man Group
Jim Switzer, AllianceBernstein
Erik Tumasz, Oaktree Capital

Categories & Award Titles below:

A. Trading Teams
B. Technologies
C. Origination
D. Market Smarts

About YOU

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Only one nomination can be made at a time. To add further nominations a fresh submission must be made.

CATEGORY A. Trading Teams

NOMINATION CATEGORIES FOR TRADING TEAMS

EMEA CREDIT TRADING TEAM. A team or unit of traders who have consistently delivered strong performance or innovative change on behalf of their stakeholders in EMEA credit over the past year.US CREDIT TRADING TEAM. A team or unit of traders who have consistently delivered strong performance or innovative change on behalf of their stakeholders in US credit, over the past yearCREDIT TRADING TEAM (ex-US/EMEA). A team or unit of traders who have consistently delivered strong performance or innovative change on behalf of their stakeholders in credit (ex-US/EMEA), over the past year.MACRO/RATES TRADING TEAM. A team or unit of traders who have consistently delivered strong performance or innovative change on behalf of their stakeholders in the government bond and rates markets, over the past year.E-TRADING TEAM. A team or unit of traders who have excelled in using electronic trading to deliver greater efficiency or innovation in support of their stakeholders.VOICE TRADING TEAM . A team or unit of traders whose relationships with counterparties have allowed them to outperform either their peers or their own benchmarks have excelled in using electronic trading to deliver greater efficiency or innovation in support of their stakeholders.ILLIQUIDS TRADING TEA. A team or unit of traders who have used effective management of relationships, innovative use of technology and data, or a combination of the two, to mitigate the illiquidity found in specific instruments including but not exclusively loan, bond, MBS/ABS or munis, to the benefit of their stakeholders.

CATEGORY B. Technologies

NOMINATION CATEGORIES FOR TECHNOLOGIES

MOST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ORDERS IN THE MARKET. A system or technology set that allows trades to be monitored and managed pre-trade, in-trade and supports post-trade analysis to improve execution quality.MOST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL ORDER MANAGEMENT. A system or technology set that systematises orders and allocations so they can be handled, tracked, optimised and allocated efficiently in order to deliver better outcomes for stakeholders.MOST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM FOR TRADING ANALYSIS. An analytics service or technology that allows users to increase transparency in a given debt market with the effect of improving their trade execution capabilities.MOST EFFECTIVE PLATFORM FOR TRADING CREDIT. A standalone platform that helps to aggregate, price and match liquidity with the effect of delivering better execution on behalf of its usersMOST EFFECTIVE PLATFORM FOR TRADING RATES. A standalone platform that helps to aggregate, price and match liquidity with the effect of delivering better execution on behalf of its usersMOST EFFECTIVE PLATFORM FOR TRADING ILLIQUID DEBT. A standalone platform that helps to aggregate, price and match liquidity in an illiquid debt market including but not exclusively loan, bond, MBS/ABS or munis, with the effect of delivering better execution on behalf of its users.MOST INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN MARKET OPERATION. An innovative application of technology within a market venue, structure or multilateral facility that supports market participants in their efforts to trade risk efficiently.MOST INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A MARKET PARTICIPANT. An innovative application of technology within a market participant that supports its execution, investment, risk or connectivity goals.

CATEGORY C. Origination

CATEGORIES FOR ORIGINATION

BANK FOR SUSTAINABLE ISSUANCE . The bank that has best supported issuance of debt that is categorised as driving sustainability goals, over the past year.BANK FOR SSA ISSUERS. The bank that has best supported issuance of SSA debt to further the funding objectives of SSA, over the past year.BANK FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS EMEA. The bank that has best supported issuance of corporate debt to further the funding objectives of private or public companies in the EMEA region, over the past year.BANK FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS US. The bank that has best supported issuance of corporate debt to further the funding objectives of private or public companies in the US region, over the past year.BANK FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS APAC. The bank that has best supported issuance of corporate debt to further the funding objectives of private or public companies in the US region, over the past year.EVOLUTIONARY CATALYST FOR BOND ISSUANCE. A company, technology, service or individual that has been a catalyst for the evolution of the bond issuance process.

CATEGORY D. Market Smarts

CATEGORIES FOR MARKET SMARTS

LIQUIDITY PROVIDER OF THE YEAR: CREDIT. The firm or team that has been instrumental in supporting liquidity access to traders in the credit markets, in any or all of corporate bond, ETF, futures and swaps instruments.LIQUIDITY PROVIDER OF THE YEAR: RATES & SSA. The firm or team that has been instrumental in supporting liquidity access to traders in the rates markets, in any or all of government bond, ETF, futures and swaps instruments.LIQUIDITY PROVIDER OF THE YEAR: ILLIQUIDS. The firm or team that has been instrumental in supporting liquidity access to traders in debt markets that are typically illiquid, including but not exclusively loan, bond, MBS/ABS, municipal or swaps instruments.MARKET STRUCTURE ADVISORY OF THE YEAR. The firm, team or individual that has delivered clear guidance to help traders optimise their routing and placement of orders by maximising their use of trading protocols, counterparties and venues.BEST COUNTERPARTY CONNECTOR. The intermediary, venue, team or firm that has helped trading desks find the other side to trades with the least friction and the greatest upside possible.ON THE DESK AWARD. A standout individual this year who has delivered sage guidance, great execution, thought leadership and/or vision to the bond markets in 2025.

About YOUR NOMINATION

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Why your nomination deserves to win *

Please provide details, with supporting evidence to Q3 2025, outlining the nominee’s role in market, strengths in that role and relative size stature (data that will be considered includes AUM, capital, client numbers/name, industry rankings, market share figures, trading volumes etc.)

Innovation and achievements *

Please detail any innovations and/or new achievements/initiatives over the past year, with support for why they should have recognition.

Business success*

Please provide evidence of your nominee’s business successes and achievements over the past 12 months, e.g. better rankings, market share, new business, performance increases, profits, trading volumes, revenues etc.

Individuals and teams *

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