2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards: Live Blog

The 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards are about to get started! The best and brightest from the financial technology space have come together today to shares ideas and help empower individual traders and investors.

Below is a love blog of the awards ceremony, set to kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• 7:48 pm: Winner for Innovation In Mobile is Scout Finance.
• 7:46 pm: Winner for Finding Alpha is Exeria.
• 7:42 pm: Winner for Analysis Platforms, Tools & Apps is FT Options.
• 7:40 pm: Winner for Research Platforms, Tools & Apps is Visible Alpha.
• 7:37 pm: Brown: "We are here to celebrate fintech. You are the people at the forefront of quantitative analytics... You are never going to get laid."
• 7:33: Host Josh Brown hits the stage: "I'm very appreciative Benzinga let me back. Especially after the Elliot Spitzer incident last year."
• 7:30 pm: Gun N' Roses just started blaring. I think we're ready to begin.
• 7:22 pm: Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick is corralling the crowd to the seating area.

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