The 2025 NASBP & SFAA Surety Industry Awards are just around the corner! Criteria are posted online at https://awards.suretyinfo.org.

The deadline for entries is Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Help us recognize the hard work and excellence of individual surety professionals and local surety associations during 2025!

Local surety associations and members of NASBP and of the Surety & Fidelity Association of America should start thinking about their nominations for the Surety Industry Awards for Excellence in Surety Bond Promotion and the Tiger Trust. See the criteria for each award below:

Tiger Trust
The prestigious Tiger Trust award is given to an individual NASBP or SFAA member who successfully persuades private owners or lenders to specify contract surety bonds on their projects.

Platinum Award
The Platinum Award is for an individual NASBP or SFAA member whose efforts to promote contract surety bonds have had a significant impact on the surety industry. This award is not based on the volume of activities, but on the successful outcome of the individual’s actions in promoting the value and benefits of contract surety bonds.

Gold Award
The Gold Award is given to a Local Surety Association (LSA) that conducts at least ten (10) public relations and educational activities in a calendar year to promote the use of contract surety bonds in construction to non-surety, non-insurance, or non-lawyer audiences.

Silver Award
The Silver Award is presented to LSAs that conduct at least five public relations and educational activities in a calendar year to promote the use of contract surety bonds in construction to non-surety, non-insurance, or non-lawyer audiences.

Advocacy Award
The Advocacy Award is awarded to LSAs that conduct significant activities advocating for suretyship, other than public relations or educational, such as fighting legislative efforts to waive bonds or increase bond thresholds, or advocating for reasonable bond forms.

All entrants must complete and submit the nomination forms by the March 18, 2026 deadline. The forms are available to download on the awards website.

Judging will take place in late March of 2026, and awards will be announced at the annual meetings of NASBP and SFAA in the spring of 2026.

For complete details about the Surety Industry Awards and Tiger Trust, visit the Surety Industry Awards website.