Doha: Qatar National Bank (QNB) Group, a prominent financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has been awarded the title of "Emerging Markets - Middle East Issuer of the Year" at the inaugural GlobalCapital MTN Awards 2026. This accolade highlights QNB Group's robust and consistent participation in international debt capital markets.

According to Qatar News Agency, the awards are determined by a comprehensive market-wide vote, underscoring the confidence, respect, and recognition QNB Group has garnered from international investors and industry peers. This inaugural award from GlobalCapital signifies the Group's prominent status in global debt capital markets as acknowledged by its international counterparts. It also reaffirms the Group's ongoing efforts to maintain a diverse range of funding sources, serving as evidence of investors' confidence in QNB's financial stability and resilience.

The recognition follows the Group's proactive and varied Medium Term Note issuances during 2025, which included a benchmark bond issuance in USD, an inaugural EUR green bond, and digitally native bonds. These transactions underscore the Group's sustained ability to engage a wide and diversified investor base across global markets.

The achievement underscores QNB's unwavering commitment to diversifying its funding sources by currency, tenor, geographies, and counterparties, thereby reinforcing its leadership position as a foremost emerging markets issuer in the global debt capital markets.