These Forex Platform Innovators Are Finalists At The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the greatest advances in fintech from leaders and visionaries in the worlds of finance and technology. This year, we have executives, developers and innovators from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, IBM, JP Morgan, Zelle, TD Ameritrade, TradeStation, Fidelity and so many more attending the Oscars of Fintech.

The BZ Awards are half party, half business development bonanza—they’re a rare chance to meet and network with everyone in finance from CNBC’s Josh Brown to the head of financial services at Facebook to the heads of trading at every major brokerage.

To offer more clarity on who is competing for the prize of most innovative in each category, Benzinga is breaking out the finalists in each category and offering more information about what they do.

The finalists for Best Forex Platform category are:

MarketFactory
CEO: James Sinclair
Description: MarketFactory provides software-as-a-service to currency markets.

Mount Wish
CEO: Markus Wunsch
Description: Mount Wish focuses on providing fully automated mutual insurance for FICC risks (Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities) and digital CIB front office for related services.

Send Money Home
CEO: Earnest Chimutwe
Description: Send Money Home is a comparison website that shows banks, foreign exchange companies, and Forex brokers information and table of indicative charges.

FXStreet
CEO: Setxi Fernandez
Description: FXStreet is a meeting place, the crossroads where you can find everything you need to make the best decisions in the currency markets. Anytime, 24/5. Based on unbiased, high quality and free information.

Fortex, Inc.
CEO: Daniel Chen
Description: Founded in 1997, Fortex continues to revolutionize trading as the industry’s only neutral multi-asset trading platform focused on the foreign exchange markets. Fortex is used by broker dealers, market makers, mutual funds, banks, hedge funds, and professional investors around the world to accelerate trade execution and support sophisticated trading strategies.

Tradagon
CEO: Nikhil Dhingr
Description: Tradagon is a fintech company that has created a bleeding edge technology for the actionable analysis of financial markets.