Global Financial Market Review (GFM) is a dedicated online news aggregation portal specializing in financial market news and industry updates. It combines original editorials with curated content from global news providers, reaching over 14 million readers annually. With a focus on reliability and depth, GFM has positioned itself as a trusted source in the financial sector, boasting a strong social media presence with over 180,000 Twitter followers.
As part of its coverage of this huge and multi-disciplined industry, GFM has developed a series of Awards. Using a wide range of criteria such as Transparency, Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Volume of Transactions, Innovation, Fintech and Customer Service, the Awards have been developed to recognise companies and institutions who have achieved notable success in their respective fields. This, in turn, has become a standard for reliability, performance and security within the financial community.
For the 3rd Week of April 2026, GFM Review's judging panel is proud to award the following institutions:
Excent Capital
Excent Capital is a financial services firm focused on delivering online foreign exchange trading solutions to clients across South America. The company offers access to a broad range of currency pairs and related instruments through a digital trading environment designed for both retail and professional traders. Its model centers on transparent pricing, efficient trade execution and risk management tools aimed at supporting active market participants. Client support is a core part of Excent Capital’s proposition, with service teams providing assistance on account setup, platform use and ongoing trading operations in regional languages and time zones. The firm’s recognition as Best Forex Customer Service South America 2026 underscores its emphasis on responsive, client-centered service standards. In parallel, the Best Forex Trading Platform South America 2026 award highlights the strength of its technology stack, including platform stability, usability and feature depth. Together, these distinctions position Excent Capital as a regional player that aligns its customer service practices and platform development with the evolving expectations of South American forex traders.
Coronation Merchant Bank
Coronation Merchant Bank is a Nigeria-based wholesale financial institution focused on corporate and investment banking, treasury, and asset management services for institutional, corporate, and high-net-worth clients. Evolving from its origins in Nigerian investment banking, the bank provides debt and equity capital markets advisory, structured finance, and risk management solutions to support large-scale corporate and public sector transactions across Africa. It also offers portfolio and wealth management products through its affiliated investment management businesses, targeting diversified and risk-adjusted returns for clients. The recognition as Best Investment Bank Africa 2026 highlights Coronation Merchant Bank’s role in originating, structuring, and distributing complex capital markets deals, including commercial paper and bond issuances that support corporate funding and market liquidity. The parallel award as Best Portfolio Manager Africa 2026 underscores the group’s capabilities in research-driven investment strategies, fiduciary risk management, and consistent performance for clients across changing market cycles. Together, these distinctions point to the bank’s dual strength as both a leading arranger of investment banking transactions and a disciplined steward of client assets, reinforcing its position within Nigeria’s financial system and the broader African capital markets landscape.
About GFM Review
Global Financial Market Review (GFM) is an online news portal that is focused on the financial industry. It has been developed to deliver informative and independent news from around the world. The articles on GFM are both sourced from a number of independent news sources as well as written in-house. This is reflected in the quality and insight that the portal delivers to readers. GFM readership is comprised of decision makers from global businesses including FT100 and Fortune 500 companies as well as high net worth individuals.