NIB wins at GlobalCapital’s 2025 Bond Awards

24.6.2025 • News

Credibility, consistency, and a sharpened green edge have earned NIB recognition among its peers. The bank’s Funding and Investor Relations team has won at the GlobalCapital’s Bond Awards 2025 for Most Impressive Supranational, Agency and Sub-sovereign Funding Team (Annual Borrowing Requirement under €10 billion), a peer-voted category presented at the publication’s flagship awards dinner in London last week, 18 June 2025.

“Because this award is decided by our fellow market participants, it carries special weight,” says Jens Hellerup, Head of Funding and Investor Relations at NIB. “It reflects the trust we’ve built through disciplined execution and a long-term commitment to transparency and sustainability, even when markets are anything but stable.”

This year, NIB shared the podium with Corporación Andina de Fomento and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank.

GlobalCapital’s recognition caps a year in which NIB’s funding programme has had to navigate volatile conditions while maintaining tight pricing and expanding its Environmental Bond offerings. The award—decided through industry vote—serves as an endorsement from investors, arrangers, and peers of the team’s steady performance and purpose-driven strategy.

Building a shelf of awards

While the GlobalCapital win is the headline moment, it is the latest in a stream of recognition for NIB’s Funding team:

  • Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025: Green Bond of the Year, EUR 750 million NIB Environmental Bond (NEB). The transaction will settle on 19 March 2025, and the bond will mature on 19 March 2032. This transaction took NIB’s total green bond issuance past the EUR 10 billion milestone since its first NEB in 2011.
  • KangaNews Awards: Kauri Issuer of the Year and Kauri Bond Deal of the Year. This is the second consecutive year, and fifth time overall, that NIB has received recognition from the Kauri markets, highlighting its strong presence in New Zealand and Australia.

Together, the honours highlight how a relatively small borrowing programme can still set benchmarks in transparency and impact. With its 2025 funding plan targeting around EUR9 billion and increasing the share of green issuance, NIB’s Funding team appears intent on making this year’s trophy haul more than a one-off moment.