IFR has been giving out awards for more than a quarter of a century. The latest event in January 2012 raised £1.26m, taking the total raised by attendees to more than £20m. This report looks at how that money has benefited children around the world, adds some of the IFR Awards history, and a light-hearted look at the Awards process and some of the more infamous winners.
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The gloomy economic climate and ongoing media coverage of bank bonuses haven’t necessarily shown the banking world in the most favourable of lights. But then along comes the annual IFR Awards Gala dinner, at which bankers give millions of pounds to support the most vulnerable children in the world.
IFR awards are among the highest accolades capital markets participants can aspire to, but occasionally they can come back to haunt us. While we stand by our decisions on a snapshot-in-time basis, there are some where we wish we had known what was coming.
The 17th annual IFR Awards Gala Dinner took place on January 18 at London’s Grosvenor House. Some 1,200 guests attended the glittering event and witnessed a string of senior capital markets professionals as well as senior officials at our Issuers of the Year pick up IFR’s major awards. Rich Ricci, co-CEO of Barclays Capital, graciously accepted the IFR Bank of the Year award from HRH The Princess Royal, President of Save the Children; Keith Mullin, Editor-at-Large of IFR; and Matthew Davies, IFR’s Editor. Our awards host this year was comedian...
IFR JOURNALISTS AND editors spend November each year trailing around the world’s financial capitals giving even the longest shot a chance to pitch and tell us why they deserve recognition. It is a chance to sit and spend a few hours with heads of businesses and chew the fat over the highs and lows of the year – while they also take a few swipes at the assumed opposition. The IFR pitch is often the only time of the year that the heads of different regions and asset classes, along with the rainmakers, actually sit in the same room. It is also the...
From small beginnings in the early 1980s, the IFR Review of the Year and gala awards dinner have grown to become the capital markets industry’s version of the Oscars. Highly coveted and fiercely competitive, the league table of former winners is a reminder of institutional consolidation.