How to participate
Submissions for the current Private Banking Awards cycle are open, submit your entry.
Participation in the programme follows a clear, research led process designed to ensure credibility, consistency and meaningful benchmarking across the global banking industry.
How to enter
- Prepare your submission: review the programme guidelines, identify the categories most relevant to your institution and submit the required information and metrics.
- Follow-up interviews: our team will reach out to arrange follow up interviews with your business leaders to gather any additional information required.
- Assessment period: we assess all submissions and data received, rigorously scoring each institution on a set of pre-defined criteria to benchmark your organisation against other providers.
- Results announced: celebrate your win at our global ceremonies, with results published online the next day.
The award categories
These awards are offered globally, regionally and at a country/territory level. Where this is not the case, it is clearly indicated below.
- Best Private Bank
- Best International Private Bank (regional & country/territory only)
- Best Pure-play/Boutique Private Bank
- Best Independent Wealth Manager
- Private Banker of the Year (global only)
- Safest Private Bank (global and regional only)
- Best for Premier Banking
- Best Wealth Tech Provider
These awards are offered globally, regionally and at a country/territory level.
- Best for Ultra-high-net-worth
- Best for High-net-worth
- Best for Family Office Services
- Best for Next-Gen
- Best for Succession Planning
- Best for Digital Solutions
- Best Chief Investment Office
- Best for Client Services
These awards are offered globally, regionally and at a country/territory level.
- Best for Sustainability
- Best for Discretionary Portfolio Management
- Best for Alternative Investments
- Best for Funds
- Best for Digital Assets
- Best for Impact Investing
- Best for Equities
- Best for Fixed Income
- Best for FX
- Best for Structured Products
- Best for Real Estate Financing
These awards are offered globally, regionally and at a country/territory level.
- Best Investment Manager
- Best Investment Manager for Private Equity
- Best Investment Manager for Private Credit
- Best Investment Manager for Public Equities
- Best Investment Manager for Fixed Income
- Best Investment Manager for Multi -Assets
These awards are offered globally and regionally.
- Best Insurance Provider for Wealth Management
- Best Insurance Broker for Wealth Management
These awards are offered globally, regionally and at a country/territory level.
- Best Technology Provider for Wealth Management
Who should enter
- Private banks
- Wealth managers
- Multi-family offices
- Robo-advisors
- Investment managers
- Technology providers
- Insurance providers
Assessment and judging
- Entrants will be assessed by Euromoney’s research team (including the Chief Research Officer, the Global Head of Research, the Global Head of Private Banking, the Global Head of Sustainability and others).
- Entrants will all be scored using frameworks specific to each category.
- Your entry and any information collected during an interview and secondary research, in addition to our team’s knowledge of the market and businesses operating within it, will all contribute to your scores.
- Euromoney research analysts will be allocated categories based on experience and knowledge of these areas with more than one individual judging each category.
- Euromoney research analysts may, at their discretion, nominate entries for additional award categories if it qualifies for recognition in more than one area. Entrants will be notified if this is the case.