GFT Global Markets' DealBook® 360 Named Best Product of the Year by Shares Magazine

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LONDON, 30 November 2007

 

Shares Magazine has announced that DealBook® 360, GFT Global Markets’ CFD, spread betting and spot forex trading platform, was voted Best Product of the Year in the magazine’s 2007 Shares Awards. Top honors were announced on 29th November at a gala dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Shares Magazine readers nominated their favourite financial providers, services and products, and winners were chosen in 26 categories. In addition to Best Product of the Year, GFT Global Markets was also recognised as a finalist in six other categories, including Best CFD Provider, Best Spread Betting Service, Best Foreign Exchange Broker, Best Active Trading Tools, Best Online Trading Platform and Best Futures & Options Broker.

 

DealBook® 360 earned top honors in its category, which included products from Abbey Stockbrokers, Barclays, Bets for Traders, CMC Markets, IG Index, Sucden and TD Waterhouse. In 2006, GFT Global Markets was a Best Spread Betting Service finalist in the Shares Awards, and also took home the award for the Best Foreign Exchange Broker. “We are committed to serving our customers by providing one of the best and most adaptable trading platforms,” said Simon Mansell, COO, GFT Global Markets. “And we are honored that the readers of Shares have selected DealBook® 360 as the best product of the year.”

 

GFT’s free DealBook® 360 trading platform includes many standout features for trading CFDs, spread bets and spot forex. In addition to receiving real–time pricing and order execution for more than 2,100 financial products, DealBook® 360 also includes customisable charting features; audible, text and e-mail price alerts; and orders types such as trailing stops to help traders limit losses and protect profits.

 

In addition to its DealBook® 360 desktop trading platform, GFT Global Markets customers can also trade the markets from anywhere with DealBook® WEB for web-based trading and DealBook® Mobile for mobile phones, PDAs and BlackBerry® devices. Free trials are available for all platforms by visiting www.gftuk.com/freetrial.

 

About Shares

Shares Magazine was launched in 1999 and has built a loyal base of readers and won numerous industry awards staying true to its mission statement of being seen to be the “Champion of the Private Investor.” The Magazine has built a reputation as the investor’s champion, consistently identifying companies where there is shareholder concern and providing in-depth and timely analysis of issues that are important to the private shareholder. Shares Magazine is the weekly sister publication of MoneyAM and is primarily aimed at

the increasing number of private investors who are trading in UK equities.

 

About GFT Global Markets UK Ltd.

Based in London, GFT Global Markets UK Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the leading U.S. forex and futures dealing firm Global Futures & Forex, Ltd, and is related to the world-leading online forex dealing firm Global Forex Trading. This advantage allows GFT Global Markets to leverage the same pioneering trading technology and dealing practices GFT has developed since 1997. GFT Global Markets UK Ltd. provides award–winning trading technology through DealBook® 360, which is designed for trading online spot foreign exchange trading, contracts for differences and financial spread betting. GFT Global Markets UK Ltd. is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. For more information, visit www.gftuk.com.