Saxo Bank Receives Best Active Trading Tools Award at the Annual Shares Awards

Saxo Capital Markets' parent company, Saxo Bank, has won the "Best Active Trading Tools" award at the annual Shares Awards last Thursday night (Nov. 10, 2011) in London.

The Shares Awards aim to recognise those organizations providing both innovative and high quality service to the world of retail investment. The awards provide a platform for traders and investors to voice who the best in the business are.

Henrik Dyrholm Holst, Head of Platform Management at Saxo Bank, commented on the win:

"Saxo Bank is proud to have been awarded for providing the industry's leading trading tools. Saxo Bank is renowned for our online FX trading, but SaxoTrader is a multi-product platform offering clients a wide range of opportunities to trade in the world's capital markets, from FX Options and Futures to CFDs on stocks, indices and commodities as well as popular investment products, such as Stocks, Bonds and ETFs. We have continuously focus on making the trading experience for all types of traders as positive and intuitive as possible, and clearly guide users through the broad range of features on the platform. In 2011, we have also upgraded the platform with winners/losers stock in intraday real-time across all 23 stock exchanges covered by Saxo Bank. In addition, we continue our investment in optimizing and adding new trading tools, and are happy to announce the imminent launch of our cutting edge trading apps for both Android and iPhone."

Saxo Bank's trading platforms have defined the company's success in the online trading space for over a decade. Since introducing the SaxoTrader in 1998, Saxo Bank has enhanced and improved its platforms to meet the evolving needs of traders and investors in a continuously changing industry.

The Shares Awards recognise excellence in all sectors of the investment, trading and securities industries and have been designed to find the very best providers across a range of categories including stock broking, derivatives trading, online research, software and fund management.

About Saxo Capital Markets

Saxo Capital Markets Pte. Ltd ("Saxo Capital Markets") is licensed as a Capital Market Services provider and an Exempt Financial Advisor, and is supervised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Saxo Capital Markets Pte Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S, the Copenhagen-headquartered online trading and investment specialist. It serves as the Asia Pacific headquarters and holds a Capital Markets Services license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Saxo Capital Markets also holds a Commodity Broker licence from The International Enterprise Singapore.

Clients can trade Forex, CFDs, Stocks, Futures, Options and other derivatives via SaxoWebTrader and SaxoTrader, its leading multi-asset online trading platforms.

SaxoTrader is available directly through Saxo Capital Markets or through one of its institutional clients. White labelling is a significant business area for Saxo Capital Markets, and involves customising and branding of its online trading platform for other financial institutions and brokers.

In 2010, Saxo Bank was awarded "Best Online Trading Platform" by Shares magazine. The Institutional arm of the business also won "Best White Label Solution Provider" by World Finance and "Best Re-labeling Platform" by Profit and Loss.

About Shares

Shares is the leading weekly publication for stock market professionals and private investors and, as such, is read weekly by thousands of analysts, fund managers, stockbrokers, company directors and private investors. The Shares team of expert writers are highly regarded in the City and their comments frequently influence the market's view of individual companies and their underlying share prices. The magazine's easy-to-read style and depth of analysis has made it the indispensable weekly read for those actively investing in the UK stock market today. Since its launch in 1999, Shares has developed a strong following from those who trade regularly in the stock market. With the unveiling of a new look in April 2008, the magazine has now broadened its coverage and introduced additional editorial features in order to extend its readership within the stock market community -- particularly company senior executives, stockbrokers, fund managers and analysts.