ADVFN International Financial Awards 2018: winners

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ADVFN PLC

14 March 2018

 

News Release

March 14^th, 2018

Winners of ADVFN International Financial Awards 2018 announced  

- biggest awards yet with significant cryptocurrency contingent -

ADVFN today announces the winners of the fourth annual ADVFN International Financial Awards.

The panel-judged awards, which recognise and celebrate the best of breed products and services from across the global financial industry, have honoured 43 companies and individuals from within the sector, making them the biggest to date.

Categories that have been a mainstay throughout the awards such as Best Low Cost Stockbroker, Best Finance App and Best Multi Platform Provider are joined by a number of new categories including a host that honour distinguished crypotcurrency players. Winners range from platform providers, brokers and trading education providers to journalists, bloggers and financial publications.

Full information about all of the categories and winners can be found on the ADVFN International Financial Awards 2018 website: http://uk.advfn.com/awards_2018 

"This year there has been a large cryptocurrency strand to the awards, which reflects the exciting developments within the industry and ADVFN's commitment to this area," said Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN. "We are delighted to commend both the established players and new wave that have distinguished themselves in the financial sector over the past year and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all winners once again."

The winners of the ADVFN International Financial Awards 2018:

Best CFD Research Service	Accendo Markets
Best Online Trading Services	ActivTrades
Self Select ISA Provider of the Year	AJ Bell Youinvest
Best Financial Print Journalist	Alex Brummer
Best Advisory CFD Services	Atlantic Advisory
Finance Blogger of the Year	Ben Harrington (Betaville)
Best Investor Relations Firm	Cassiopeia Services
Best CFD Provider	City Index
Best Cryptocurrency Exchange	Coinfloor
Best Crowdfunding Platform	Crowdstacker
Best Website for Cryptocurrency Data	CryptoCompare
Best IPO Provider	Direct Market Touch
Best APAC Region Broker	easyMarkets
Best Social Trading Platform	eToro
Best Platform for Trading Cryptocurrencies	eToro
Best Spread Betting Platform	ETX Capital
Best Mainstream Media Crytocurrency Coverage	Express.co.uk
Best Managed Funds Provider	F&C Investments
Best Trading Alert Service	Faraday Research
Best Cryptocurrency Writer	Gary McFarlane
Best Forex Platform	GKFX
Best Execution Only Stockbroker	Guardian Stockbrokers
Best Personal Finance Journalist	Harvey Jones
Best Spread Betting and CFD Education Tools	IG
Best Finance App	IG
Best Multi Platform Provider	IG
Best SIPP Provider	Interactive Investor
Best Low Cost Stockbroker	Interactive Investor
Best Stockbroker for International Dealing	Interactive Investor
Best Investment Magazine	Investors Chronicle
Best Newspaper Tipster	Joanne Hart
Best Currency Exchange Service	Key Currency
Best UK Property Investment Adviser	Knight Knox
Best Platform for Binary Options Trading	Nadex
Best Website for Cryptocurrency News	NewsBTC
Best Platform for Retail Share Placings	PrimaryBid
Best Platform for the Active Trader	Saxo Capital Markets
Best ETF Provider	Société Générale
Best Business TV Journalist	Steph McGovern (BBC Breakfast)
Best Online Stockbroker	The Share Centre
Best Peer to Peer Provider	ThinCats
Best Newcomer	TradeFred
Best Trading Education Provider	Trendsignal

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About ADVFN

ADVFN (www.advfn.com) is a global stocks, shares and crypto information website providing market-leading financial tools and data to private investors around the world.

Offering real-time share prices, news feeds, charting, portfolio management, monitor lists, financials, data from global stock exchanges, Level 2 and the most active financial bulletin board in the UK (along with many other features), the site is the destination of choice for day traders and retail investors.

Established in the last quarter of 1999, ADVFN (LSE:AFN) was floated on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market in March 2000. The site currently has approximately 38 million users worldwide and more than a billion page impressions a year.

Originally a UK-based site, the company currently operates in the US, UK, Brazil, Japan and Dubai.

ADVFN has a joint venture in Brazil, a country in which ADVFN has a geographic and language targeted website. This is in addition to its US, French, German, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, Indian, Mexican and Filipino ADVFN financial sites.

In September 2006 ADVFN acquired InvestorsHub.com, a leading online investment community website in the North American market.

ADVFN bought AllIPO, an online IPO trading platform, as well as stock brokerages TSCTrade and Throgmorton Street Capital in July 2009.

In 2013 ADVFN acquired Finance Manila, a key resource in a rapidly growing market economy.

For further press information, please contact: Francesca De Franco on: 0794 125 3135 or email [e-mail]

 

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