ADVFN PLC 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 
                                       Société 
 Best ETF Provider                      Générale 
                                       Steph McGovern (BBC 
 Best Business TV Journalist            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]

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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