Om 15, January 2009 Eksportfinans Funding team received two awards from MTN-i, "Landmark deal 2008" and "The Editor's Award 2008".
MTN-i writes "After a year marked by an avalanche of market and institutional catastrophe, MTN-i's 2008 awards highlight how dealers and issuers faced up to the many tests thrown up by the crisis. Eksportfinans' ultimate success in completing its funding programme and preserving its investor franchise despite a host of problems provides a case study in prevailing in the face of adversity".
MTN-i also honours Eksportfinans' Funding team for carrying out three benchmark transactions in 2008. In spite of a difficult market situation "The Norwegian agency raised the USD 13.5 bn it needed to meet lending demand, expanded its footprint in key debt markets (particularly the US and Asia) and re-opened the Euro benchmark bond sector".