Global Custodian is pleased to announce the shortlists for its annual Leaders in Custody awards being held in London at The Savoy on 30 May 2024, including survey-related honours and Editors’ Choice categories. 
The evening will once again recognise the achievements of the global securities services industry, with awards celebrating global custodians, sub-custodians, technology providers and market infrastructure providers across a range of categories.
As always, the celebrations will honour top performers from Global Custodian’s Agent Banks in Major, Emerging and Frontier Markets surveys, along with Editors’ Choice awards recognising areas of innovation and achievements the research does not traditionally cover.
There is also an opportunity to nominate some of the industry’s brightest ideas for our Innovation awards categories, which you can do by clicking here.
Individual awards including our Lifetime Achievement award, GC Legends and Industry Person of the will be announced at a later date.
Leading the way this year with the most nominations is SIX with 11, while JP Morgan and Eurobank are nominated for seven apiece.
BNP Paribas Securities Services and Mizuho are up for five honours, as are Intesa Sanpaolo and State Street. There are also a handful of nominations for Standard Chartered, HSBC, Northern Trust, Deutsche Bank and Broadridge.
It’s a particularly good year for the global custodians in the Editors’ Choice segment with the biggest names leading the shortlists in innovation, projects and partnerships.
New awards this year include Data Project/Initiative of the Year, Securities Finance/Collateral Initiative of the Year and the Digital Asset/DLT initiative award.
The Fintech One to Watch also makes its way to London featuring a quarter of innovative players which have caught the judges’ eyes over the past 12 months.
Should you wish to attend the awards, please contact daljit.sokhi@globalcustodian.com. For survey related awards questions contact lottie.sweeney@globalcustodian.com and for Editors’ Choice, or any editorial-related queries, contact jon.watkins@globalcustodian.com.
The full shortlist can be found below:
Agent Banks of the Year
Major Markets
Intesa Sanpaolo
Mizuho Bank
Standard Chartered
Emerging Markets
Deutsche Bank
ICICI Bank
Standard Chartered
Frontier Markets
Eurobank
Standard Bank
SEB
Large Clients
Citi
SIX
UBS
Best Agent Bank Network
Mizuho Trust and Banking (Luxembourg)
SIX
State Street
Best in Class: Global
Account Management
BNP Paribas (Turkey)
Intesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
SIX Group (Switzerland)
Asset Safety and Risk Management
Eurobank (Greece)
SIX (ICSD)
SIX (Switzerland)
Client Service
BNP Paribas (Turkey)
Intesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
SIX (Switzerland)
Data Services
Eurobank (Greece)
ICICI Bank (India)
SIX (Switzerland)
Relationship Management
BNP Paribas (Turkey)
Mizuho Bank (Japan)
SIX (Switzerland)
Technology
Eurobank (Greece)
SIX (ICSD)
SIX (Switzerland)
Best Provider as Rated by Network Managers Only
Major Markets: Overall
Intesa Sanpaolo
Mizuho Bank
SEB
Emerging Markets: Overall
Deutsche Bank
HSBC
Standard Chartered
Frontier Markets: Overall
HSBC
Raiffeisen Bank International
Societe Generale Securities Services
Best provider as Rated by Global Custodians Only
Major Markets
Citi
Mizuho Bank
MUFG
Emerging Markets
BNP Paribas
Eurobank
Standard Chartered
Editors’ Choice
Global Custodian of the Year
BNY Mellon
Citi
JP Morgan
Northern Trust
State Street
Custody Deal of the Year
BNP Paribas – BPER Banca
BNY Mellon – Lunate Capital
JP Morgan – Credicorp
Northern Trust – True Potential
Asset Servicing Partnership of the Year
HSBC – Calastone
JP Morgan – Baton Systems
U.S. Bank – Enfusion
Zodia Custody – Metaco
ESG Initiative of the Year
BNP Paribas – ESG Capabilities for Portfolio Screening Tool
JP Morgan – Sustainable Investment Data Solutions
Northern Trust – Voluntary Carbon Credit Ecosystem
State Street – Global Carbon Asset Servicing Solution and Depositary Services
Best New Asset Servicing Project
Brown Brothers Harriman – InfuseDX
HSBC – Digital ETF Servicing System
JP Morgan – Securities Services Data Mesh, Fusion
State Street – FX Workflow Solution
Data Project/Initiative of the Year
Broadridge – BRx Match
Brown Brothers Harriman – InfuseDX
JP Morgan – Fusion
Northern Trust – Data Mesh Framework
Market Infrastructure Project of the Year
Clearstream – Cloud Technology Migration
Euroclear – Digital Securities Issuance (D-SI) service
SIX – Post-Trade Platform Upgrade
Swift – Blockchain Interoperability Initiative
Fintech One to Watch
SSImple
Tokenbridge
Wematch.live
ZILO
Fintech of the Year
METACO
Proxymity
Saphyre
Taurus
Technology Vendor of the Year
Broadridge
Nasdaq
TCS
Torstone Technology
Securities Finance/Collateral Initiative of the Year
Broadridge – DLR
Clearstream – Canadian collateral management service
EquiLend – 1Source
JP Morgan – Tokenized Collateral Network
Digital Asset/DLT initiative of the Year
Broadridge – AI-backed OpsGPT tool
Digital Asset – Canton Network
EquiLend – 1Source
Swift – Blockchain Interoperability Initiative