SP Intelligence Awards

The SP Intelligence Awards for Excellence recognise the very best in the industry — institutions that not only strive for greatness, but consistently deliver measurable impact, sustained innovation, and market-leading performance.

Tiago Fernandes presenting at the SP Intelligence Europe Structured Products Conference.

What sets the SP Intelligence Awards apart is the depth, independence, and rigor of our evaluation process. Winners are not selected through popularity or superficial metrics. Instead, each participant is assessed using our proprietary, independent data, combined with detailed submissions outlining achievements, innovations, and performance over the past 12 months. This is further reinforced by the collection of consistent, comparable data across all participants, enabling a truly objective benchmarking of competing banks.

As a result, these awards are among the most difficult to win and carry one of the highest reputations in the market.

Award Categories

01

Best Derivatives House

This award recognizes the leading derivatives house dedicated to hedge structured products and Equity Derivatives. The winner demonstrates excellence in innovation, pricing, and issuance of the most structured products for the European market, as indicated by SP Intelligence’s league tables. The top 5 finalists will each nominate a client to form an independent jury, responsible for ranking the finalists based on their performance.

Shortlist
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Morgan Stanley
Societe Generale
UBS

02

Best European Issuer

This award acknowledges the issuer of structured products that has shown exceptional innovation, pricing, and issuance performance in the European market, as reflected in SP Intelligence’s league tables.

Shortlist
Bank Julius Baer
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Morgan Stanley
Societe Generale

03

Best Structuring

This award honors the issuer demonstrating the utmost innovation, exceptional capability in pricing various underlyings, and delivering diverse payoffs across the European landscape.

Shortlist
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Morgan Stanley

04

Best European Distributor

This award acknowledges the distributor of structured products that has shown exceptional innovation, breath of platform with issuers and product types, and issuance performance in the European market, as reflected in SP Intelligence’s league tables.

Shortlist
Credit Agricole
Generali
Intesa Sanpaolo
Garantum
UBS

05

Issuer Rising Star

This award celebrates the issuer of structured products that had highest growth across Europe.

Shortlist
Bank of America
BBVA
HSBC

06

Deal of the Year

The independent jury will recognise the best deal of the year, taking into account deal significance, innovation, and financial impact.

Shortlist
Barclays
Credit Agricole
Marex

07

Country Specific Issuer Awards

These awards acknowledge the issuer of structured products in the following countries with the highest innovation, best pricing, and issuance performance in the market according to SP Intelligence’s league tables.

08

Country Specific Distributor Awards

This award acknowledges the best distributor of structured products in the specific country taking into account the highest innovation, market share, performance and breath of issuers in their platform according to SP Intelligence’s league tables.

09

Hall of Fame

The jury will recognize the winner in this category for their impact on the structured products industry. Any industry stakeholder can submit a candidate who will be analyzed by the independent jury considering the longevity, impact in the industry and highest ethical standards/reputation.

Expert panelist participating in a discussion at the SP Intelligence Europe Structured Products Conference.

Each Award for Excellence is granted only to the participant that demonstrates clear and outstanding leadership in its category. Criteria include market share, sustained growth, relative outperformance versus peers, and the ability to adapt to evolving market conditions and client needs — particularly through meaningful innovation.

Following the submission process, our team of researchers, together with an independent jury, conducts a comprehensive and meticulous review of every entry.

Thank you for your continued support of the awards. We look forward to welcoming you to our events.

2025 Winners