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 5th Week of November 2025, GFM Review's judging panel is proud to award the following institutions:
Solomon Capital Group
Solomon Capital Group is a specialist advisory firm with over 25 years of experience guiding corporate leaders through complex cross-border transactions. The firm has completed more than 600 mandates across mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and strategic growth initiatives on multiple continents. Leveraging deep international networks and expertise in local market dynamics, Solomon Capital Group delivers tailored solutions that address legal, regulatory, tax, and cultural considerations critical to successful deal execution. The firm’s partner-driven model ensures senior professionals remain actively engaged throughout each project, fostering strong client relationships and driving value creation from strategy formulation to post-transaction integration. By combining global best practices with nimble boutique agility, Solomon Capital Group supports clients in achieving their capital market objectives, optimizing transaction structures, and navigating diverse market environments with confidence.
LGR Global
LGR Global operates the SRC Ecosystem, a blockchain-based trade finance platform addressing the 2.5 trillion dollar global trade finance gap through real-world asset tokenization and artificial intelligence. Founded by H.H. Ali Amirliravi and headquartered in Estonia, the platform digitizes trade documents including invoices, bills of lading and warehouse receipts into liquid, tradeable tokens. The Ecosystem integrates AI-driven credit scoring, automated onboarding and smart contract settlement to streamline cross-border payments and supply chain finance. Its architecture combines decentralized and traditional finance elements, enabling both institutional investors and small-to-medium enterprises to participate in previously inaccessible trade finance markets. The platform complies with United Nations MLETR standards and holds memberships with the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative, International Chamber of Commerce and strategic partnerships with Ripple for cross-border settlements. Since its inception, the firm has secured over 11.5 million dollars in funding and expanded services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to empower emerging market businesses.
HeyTrade
HeyTrade is a Madrid-headquartered fintech innovator that offers both a retail investment app and a trading-as-a-service platform for financial institutions. Founded in 2020, the company empowers individual investors with commission-based access to global markets and curated thematic baskets, while enabling banks, neobrokers and wealth managers to deploy branded investment portals through white-label solutions and APIs. HeyTrade’s retail app emphasizes rapid account opening, transparent pricing and open banking integration to streamline funding and trading in under five minutes. On the institutional side, its no-code infrastructure, modular market connectivity and advanced security certifications allow clients to launch fully customized investment offerings without extensive in-house development. The company’s dual model leverages insights from its consumer base to enhance enterprise solutions and ensures diversified revenue from transaction fees and licensing agreements. HeyTrade’s commitment to transparency and customer alignment has been recognized through LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2024 of Spain and as a finalist in the Investment Tech category at the 2025 Europe FinTech Awards.
CrossFi
CrossFi is a Web3 banking platform that integrates traditional financial rails with decentralized finance infrastructure, addressing a core pain point in cryptocurrency adoption. The company operates a dual-blockchain architecture combining Cosmos for consensus and scaling with the Ethereum Virtual Machine for smart contract compatibility, enabling users to hold, trade, stake, and spend digital assets through a non-custodial mobile application. Its flagship product, a debit card system that settles transactions on-chain while converting cryptocurrency directly to fiat, represents a significant innovation in cryptocurrency-to-payments infrastructure. The platform issues XUSD, an algorithmic stablecoin backed by XFI tokens, and supports synthetic asset markets and real-world asset positioning. CrossFi operates under European regulatory oversight with ongoing MiCA compliance preparations. The company has secured strategic investment from Genesis Capital and partnerships with Alchemy, Covalent, and leading validator networks. Its recognition as Best Mobile Banking Initiative APAC 2025 reflects the platform’s focus on seamless, user-controlled financial operations accessible across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, targeting one million monthly active users.
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.