Each application must be submitted for one category and one subcategory within that category only.

If you wish to apply for multiple categories or subcategories, you must complete and submit a separate application for each award you are applying for.

Innovation in Trading & Investing 

• Best New Product - Recognizes a recently launched product that is transforming the trading and investing landscape.
• Best AI-Powered Trading Software - Honors platforms using artificial intelligence to enhance trading strategy, automation, or analysis.
• Best Brokerage App - Celebrates the most user-friendly and feature-rich mobile experience for trading.
• Best Brokerage for Beginners - Highlights a brokerage that best supports and educates new investors entering the market.
• Best Brokerage for Day Trading - Awarded to a platform with superior tools, speed, and resources tailored for active day traders.
• Best Brokerage for Forex - Acknowledges excellence in providing robust forex trading access and tools.
• Best Brokerage for Options Trading - Recognizes the best platform for executing and managing options strategies with efficiency and insight.
• Best Brokerage for Short Selling - Awarded to a brokerage offering superior capabilities and tools for short sellers.
• Best Brokerage for Trading Futures - Honors the top futures trading brokerage based on access, margin requirements, and usability.
• Best Canadian Brokerage - Celebrates the best-in-class Canadian brokerage firm in terms of innovation and client experience.
• Best International Brokerage - Highlights global excellence in brokerage services and cross-border accessibility.
• Best Trading Technology - Recognizes the most innovative underlying technology powering trading solutions.
• Best Social Investing Product - Honors platforms enabling users to learn from, follow, or interact with other investors.
• Best Alternative Investments Platform - Awarded to the best platform offering access to alternatives such as real estate, collectibles, or private markets.
• Best Prop Trading Platform - Recognizes a top-performing proprietary trading firm offering funded accounts and training.
• Best Portfolio Tracker - Celebrates tools that help investors effectively monitor and manage their investments.
• Most Impactful Executive of the Year - Honors a visionary leader whose contributions have significantly shaped the investing world.

Innovation in Stock Market Data & Analysis

• Best New Product - Recognizes a newly introduced data or analysis product that is pushing the industry forward.
• Best API Solution - Honors a data provider offering seamless API integration with robust market data access.
• Best Data Analysis Tool - Celebrates tools delivering deep market insights through data visualization or interpretation.
• Best Embedded Finance - Awarded to a company that successfully integrates financial services into non-financial platforms.

Innovation in ETFs

• Best New Product - Highlights a newly launched ETF that delivers unique market exposure or innovation.
• ETF Issuer of the Year - Recognizes an issuer with standout innovation, growth, and investor engagement.
• Best Active ETF - Honors the top-performing actively managed ETF with a strong strategy and execution.
• Best Thematic ETF - Celebrates a fund that effectively captures a specific trend, theme, or niche market.
• Index Provider of the Year - Recognizes the most innovative and widely adopted index developer in the ETF space.

Innovation in Personal Finance 

• Best New Product - Recognizes a personal finance product that brings fresh, impactful tools to consumers.
• Best Lending Solution - Honors platforms providing innovative access to loans or credit in a consumer-friendly way.
• Best Financial Literacy Tool - Celebrates tools that improve users' understanding of financial concepts and planning.
• Best in Financial Education - Recognizes outstanding resources, platforms, or programs focused on broad-based financial education.
• Breaking Barriers - Awarded to a company or individual driving inclusion, access, and equity in personal finance.

Innovation in Crypto & Web3 

• Best New Product - Awarded to a cutting-edge crypto or Web3 product launched within the past year.
• Best Crypto Exchange - Recognizes a secure, efficient, and user-friendly platform for cryptocurrency trading.
• Best Software for Trading Cryptocurrency - Honors the most advanced software used to analyze, trade, and manage crypto assets.
• Best Crypto Wallet - Celebrates the best-in-class digital wallet for storing and transacting crypto safely.