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 4th Week of November 2025, GFM Review's judging panel is proud to award the following institutions:
CIMB Bank Philippines
CIMB Bank Philippines has rapidly distinguished itself as the most awarded digital-only commercial bank in the Philippines since its launch in 2019. The institution has earned over 150 international awards, reflecting excellence in digital innovation, customer experience and financial inclusion. In 2025 it was ranked 41st globally in The Asian Banker’s World’s Top 100 Digital Banks, the highest placement among Philippine banks. Earlier, Forbes named it the number-one bank in the Philippines in its 2023 World’s Best Banks ranking, based on customer surveys evaluating digital services, trust and financial advice. Through its mobile-first platform, OCTO, CIMB Bank Philippines has served nearly ten million customers with cloud-native architecture, AI-driven credit scoring for thin-file borrowers and seamless integrations into leading e-commerce and payments platforms. Strategic partnerships with major digital wallets and marketplaces have powered rapid deposit and loan growth while advancing financial inclusion in underserved regions. The bank’s Strategic Partnership of the Year award from Asian Banking and Finance Awards underscores its ecosystem approach and commitment to democratizing access to banking services.
Flyer Financial Technologies
Flyer Financial Technologies is a cloud-native infrastructure provider transforming multi-asset portfolio trading for wealth management firms. Since its founding in 2004, Flyer has evolved from a specialized FIX connectivity provider into a comprehensive portfolio and order management system serving thousands of registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and asset managers. Its flagship Co-Pilot platform integrates front, middle and back office workflows through both graphical and API-first interfaces, supporting equities, options, futures, fixed income and fractional shares. Complemented by the Flyer Trading Network, which standardizes connectivity to more than eighty custodians and brokers, Flyer processes over 1.6 million daily trades and manages 2.6 million investor accounts with real-time compliance and allocation engines. Led by CEO Brian Ross, Flyer’s independent, API-driven architecture ensures flexibility for firms that require bespoke integrations or white-label solutions. Recognized as the Best Trading Platform North America 2025 and Best Multi-Asset Trading Platform North America 2025, Flyer demonstrates sustained innovation in scalability, performance and multi-custodial support.
Credia Partners
Credia Partners is an independent financial advisory firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Istanbul and London. The firm specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory, bespoke credit advisory, and principal investments spanning private credit and special situations. Led by seasoned investment bankers with extensive global banking backgrounds, Credia Partners has established a track record of closing more than 30 transactions valued near 3 billion dollars across five countries. The firm serves a diverse client and investor base, leveraging unparalleled relationships with stakeholders throughout Turkey and an extensive international network of corporates and investment funds. Credia Partners maintains a clear separation between its advisory and investment operations to prevent conflicts of interest. Its recognition as Best M&A Advisory Firm Turkey 2025 and Best Debt Advisory Turkey 2025 reflects the company’s demonstrated expertise in executing complex transactions and structuring innovative credit solutions for mid-market businesses.
Fennech Financial Ltd
Fennech Financial is a next-generation corporate banking platform that hyper-automates finance, treasury, and payments processes through its proprietary F³ framework. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, the cloud-native platform enables real-time orchestration of financial operations across multiple banking partners without requiring complex system rebuilds. Backed by Lloyds Banking Group, Fennech serves corporates managing global cash and liquidity, financial institutions modernizing treasury services, and fintechs embedding financial capabilities into their products. The platform’s designation as Best Embedded Finance Solution Asia 2025 underscores its ability to seamlessly integrate treasury infrastructure into partner ecosystems. Through modular, API-first architecture, Fennech bridges internal financial systems with diverse banking rails, enabling customers to deploy sophisticated payment orchestration, cash management, and reconciliation capabilities without operational disruption. By abstracting technical complexity while maintaining enterprise-grade security, Fennech empowers organizations to compete effectively while maintaining robust financial control.
Simply Financial Services
Simply Financial Services is a South African digital life insurer on a mission to make life, disability and funeral cover simple, affordable and accessible for families, small businesses and domestic workers. Founded in 2015, the company combines engineering expertise and actuarial discipline with a customer-centric platform that delivers instant online quotes and seamless policy management. Through a strategic partnership with Hollard Life Assurance, Simply underwrites policies securely while focusing its own resources on technology, distribution and service excellence. Its product suite includes flexible family cover that lets customers add multiple relatives to a single policy, digital group staff cover that integrates directly with major payroll systems for easy SME administration, and dedicated protection plans for domestic workers. By embedding insurance into everyday business tools and marketplaces, Simply has reached underserved segments that traditional insurers overlooked. In 2025 the company received the AFC Excellence in Technology Award for its outstanding use of technology to transform the insurance experience.
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.