In Primary Debt, SG CIB has been voted 5th Best Overall Provider by issuers in Euromoney's Primary Debt Poll published in June 2010. Driven by our origination & distribution team, these latest rankings see SG CIB:

Best Service Provision:

#1 Issuer research

#3 Swap provision

#3 Liability management

#4 Coverage team

#6 Debt syndicate

Best by Product:

#1 Structured products

#1 ABS/covered bonds

#2 Inflation-linked products

In Research, SG CIB is ranked #1 in Overall Credit Strategy for the 3rd time in the last four years, in Euromoney's Fixed Income Research Poll.

We have also taken the top position in a number of categories, including:

#1 Telecoms & Medias, #1 General Industries and #1 Consumer Products & Retail (for four consecutive years)

#1 Utilities, #1 Autos and #1 Non-Banks Financial Institutions (for the past two years)

These results demonstrate SG CIB's commitment to its clients and recognised in-depth expertise in numerous fields. Other results for SG CIB include:

#2 Overall Trade Ideas

#2 Sovereigns

#3 Supranational & Agencies (Ranked #1 by top100 largest asset managers globally by AuM)

#4 Banks

#4 High Yield

#6 Covered Bonds & Pfandbriefe (Ranked #2 by top100 largest asset managers globally by AuM)

#7 Emerging Market Corporates

#8 Emerging Market Sovereigns

In Euromoney's 2010 FX Poll SG CIB also won notable rankings:

#1 in France by Market Share and positioned in the Top 10 in Western Europe

#1 Most improved by Market Share for Real Money

#1 in East European currencies

#1 in Emerging Market Options - Consistent Pricing

#1 in Emerging Market Options - Trading strategy & ideas

#1 Currencies Emerging Market Trading - Spot/Forward

#1 in Structured Options/FX-linked/Correlation products; Trading strategy & ideas

#2 in Structured Options/FX-linked/Correlation products; Consistent pricing

#2 in Vanilla options /1st Generation exotics - Trading

#3 in Currencies G10 Trading - Spot/Forward

#3 in Vanilla options /1st Generation exotics - Consistent pricing

The bank also continued to improve its market share with Non-Financial Corporates.