Investors vote OANDA as winner of the 'Highest Overall Client Satisfaction' and 'Value for Money' awards in 2012

SINGAPORE, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OANDA, a global provider of innovative foreign exchange trading services, has won two awards in Singapore from Investment Trends, a specialist financial services research agency. OANDA was ranked No. 1 for the third year running for "Highest Overall Client Satisfaction", and was also awarded "Best Value for Money" in forex*. OANDA has won two awards every year the survey has been conducted by Investment Trends. This year's awards are based on a survey conducted by Investment Trends that received responses from 11,762 traders and investors in Singapore.

Leading online foreign exchange broker blends social media and push technology with mobile market access to help traders get the most of their OANDA trading experiences

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OANDA’s latest update to its popular iPhone trading app integrates price alert functionality and StockTwits social commentary on currency pairs and forex markets. This new release is available for free download from the Apple iTunes store.

“Most of our customers use their mobile devices for trading and they expect the same rich functionality they get from our online trading platform,” said Tony Savor, Chief Technology Office at OANDA. “It’s a big enough challenge to bring this from the desktop to the handset, but we want to add even more value. So we also leverage relationships with premium providers like StockTwits to bring best-of-breed functionality to our mobile platform.”

StockTwits is a leading communications platform for the financial community and the creator of the $(TICKER) tag for identifying and following investing ideas and information across the web. OANDA plans to extend the StockTwits social media functionality to its other mobile apps and trading platforms in the future.

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SINGAPORE, May 8, 2012 - CMC Markets is proud to announce that the Singapore 30 has now been launched. Reflecting the Straits Times Index, the new Singapore 30 allows CMC Markets' Singapore clients to trade the market they know best. It is one of three long-awaited Asia-region index CFDs now available on the company's Next Generation platform.

Other exciting index CFD additions that open up trading opportunities around the region are Hong Kong China H-shares, similar to the Hang Seng China Enterprise Index, and the China A50, similar to the FTSE China A50 Index. As clients have been asking for all three of these indices, CMC Markets is delighted to let all traders know that they are finally here, and available on both live and demo Next Generation accounts.

For clients who like the idea of trading on markets further afield, the company has also launched three more global index CFDs, the Belgium 20, India 50 and South Africa 40, bringing a growing total of index CFDs to 26.

SINGAPORE, May 8, 2012 - An independent survey of more than 12,000 CFD & FX traders in Singapore has named CMC Markets as the number one for FX Education.  It is the second year in a row that CMC Markets has won a "Best Education" Award.  The year before Investment Trends, a specialist research organisation in the financial services sector, identified CMC as having the "Best CFD Education" programme in Singapore.  This year's CFD & FX Report found that CMC is a leading provider of CFD and FX traders in Singapore, remaining the second largest CFD supplier in the region.

The award tops off a year of achieving industry accolades, with the most recent accolade being the Shares Magazine award for "Financial Provider of the year". The Shares Magazine Awards provide traders and investors with a voice in which recognises the innovative and high quality service and products from companies in the world of retail investment. CMC Markets was also recently voted Best CFD Broker by Trade2Win, the world's largest trading community with over 247,000 traders registered. In Australia, CMC Markets picked up the Cheapest Online Broker Award from prestigious personal finance publication Money Magazine for the second year in a row.