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This year, the awards were awarded in quantitative and qualitative categories by the stock exchange in the case of the former objective, quantifiable market performance indicators, while the latter developed the final ranking based on the evaluation of a professional jury. A number of awards could be submitted by tender, giving market participants the opportunity to compete with their own initiatives and results. A separate category was represented by the domestic share trading platform of the year award, which was decided by the wide public in the framework of an investor survey. The award of the awards has been decided by the members of the stock exchange advisory board in accordance with tradition.

In his opening speech, the Governor of the Central Bank of Hungary Mihály Varga highlighted that the results of the Hungarian capital market draw the attention of an increasing number of investors to the potential of Hungarian shares, since those who invest in them can be part of a success story. As he said last year, the Hungarian stock exchange has broken new records, and the entire Hungarian economy, companies and the population have won the increase in performance. Péter Csányi, CEO of the OTP Bank, said, among other things, that stock exchange companies compete with stock exchange participants in other sectors, only for the trust of investors, and the transparency and discipline of the stock exchange train these companies. Tibor Toth, CEO of the Budapest Stock Exchange, presented the outstanding performance of the BSE on the domestic market and in regional comparison.

Article 4 on the basis of its performance in 2011, OTP Bank received the most recognition in this year’s ,,BÉT Legek” (Best of BSE), boasting a total of four awards. The credit institution has won the categories of investment service provider of the year, issuer of the year’s highest turnover, issuer transparency fee and liability, sustainability, corporate governance fee. OTP Bank was followed by richter gedeon in second place and MOL in third place in the ranking of the highest turnover issuers.

MBH Bank received recognition for the largest public share sale of the year in the last 25 years, with the largest volume of transactions in the value of HUF 67.8 billion last december. The group’s MBH Fund Manager also won the Share Fund Manager of the Year award. Shopper Park Plus received the award for the biggest public new share issue of the year, while Eximbank received the award on the bond market and MVM received the award on the corporate side.

Wood Company has won the recognition of the most traded share trader among investment service providers for the second time, the brokerage company concluded transactions worth a total of HUF 2371 billion in 2025. In futures BUX index and stock trading, Erste Investment Zrt. achieved the highest turnover, while in the futures currency market, Raiffeisen Bank had the largest volume, and the “Analyst Workshop of the Year” award went to Concorde Securities.

The issuer of premium category securities that achieved the biggest price increase last year was 4iG (with a 350 percent growth), while the award for promoting investor awareness was received by Zoltán Kiss, a teacher at Jurisich Miklós High School and College, whose students regularly rank among the best in national finance competitions. On the BSE's multilateral Xtend market for medium-sized companies, the 2025 Issuer of the Year award went to STRT Holding, which, at the end of the year following its successful IPO, could continue its capital market journey on the regulated stock exchange as part of a category change. The BSE Xtend Special Award went to Whiteless Rock Zrt., which, as a designated advisor, supports issuers from listing to keeping their shares in circulation, increasing market safety and protecting investors' interests. Based on the public vote, the "Domestic Equity Trading Platform of the Year" was awarded to K&H Bank's webtrader and mobiletrader systems.