Our friends at EFG Hermes and Beltone pick up fresh accolades, along with CIB

Our friends at EFG Hermes kept their corporate access crown, ranking first in the Extel Emerging EMEA survey’s corporate access conferences category for the second year running, according to a company statement (pdf). Their research team also picked up a string of sector accolades, including top spots in healthcare and pharma, utilities, transportation, construction and real estate, and oil and gas.

MEANWHILE- Our friends at Beltone Asset Management were named Egypt’s Best Islamic Fund Manager at this year’s Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards, according to a company statement (pdf). The award recognizes Beltone’s growing shariah-compliant asset management platform, which spans equity, liquidity, and index-tracking strategies, alongside digital distribution, structured shariah screening, and comprehensive risk oversight.

ALSO- Commercial International Bank (CIB) placed second worldwide in the mid-size banks category (USD 20-50 bn in assets) on Forbes and Statista’s World’s Top Performing Banks list, coming in just behind US-based SoFi. The list scored 500 banks from 89 countries on profitability, growth and earnings quality, capital and funding resilience, and asset quality and efficiency.