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14/03/2018 07:06

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ADVFN PLC
14 March 2018
News Release
March 14th, 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 theADVFN 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
Socit Gnrale
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 francescad@advfn.com

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