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World News Media Ltd.
Company typePrivate company limited by shares
IndustryPublishing
Founded2004
HeadquartersIslington, London.
Key people
Howard Angel, director.
ProductsWorld Finance
ServicesWorld Finance Awards
OwnerHoward Angel
Websitewww.wnmedia.com

World News Media Limited is a multi-platform publisher and creative services company. The company was established in 2004 and trades from London.


Magazines[edit]

World Finance[edit]

The company's principal magazine is World Finance which is published in print and electronically by Issuu. The magazine features in-house produced copy plus generic topical non-exclusive agency-produced articles. Features profile winners of the World Finance Awards and supplements are produced such as Project Finance Deals of the Year - 2015 and Banking in Nigeria.[1]

Awards[edit]

A World Finance award for "Best Non-Life Insurance Company, Kazakhstan", 2013.
A winner from Kazakhstan receiving their award in 2013.

As of 2013, the company provided awards in 16 different categories from banking to telecoms under the name of the World Finance Awards which started in 2007.[2] Tim Hunter, writing in Stuff, commented, "Each award category has a winner for each country represented and in one single category there were 69 winners from countries including Angola to Vietnam and Pakistan to Peru. In the banking category there were more than 200 winners."[3] The company's awards have since been extended to include Islamic finance.[4]

Selected winners[edit]
  • Tullett Brown won "Commodities Broker of the Year in Western Europe".[6] Later they went into liquidation "in the public interest"[6] and the directors were banned.[7]
  • Worldwide Commodity Partners (WCP) who were named "Fastest Growing Broker, Western Europe, 2012".[6][8] In 2014 they were wound-up in the British High Court on the grounds that they "traded with a lack of commercial probity and ... made false and misleading statements in order to sell VER carbon credits to the public for investment at exaggerated prices".[9]
  • In 2012, Banc De Binary won "Best Trading Platform".[10] It was wound up in 2017 after regulatory issues on three continents.[11]
  • In 2014, First Citizens Bank of Trinidad and Tobago won "Best Retail Bank: T&T 2014" and "Best Commercial Bank: T&T 2014" according to the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian.[12]
  • In 2014, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation won "Best Banking Group in the Philippines" for the third time in a row, and "Best Commercial Bank in the Philippines" according to Malaya Business Insight.[13]
  • In 2017, NCB Capital, Saudi Arabia's largest asset manager, won "Best Investment Management Company (Equities) Saudi Arabia, 2017" in the World Finance awards according to Arab News.[15]
  • In 2017, NCB Insurance Company won "best pension fund manager in the Caribbean", for the third-consecutive time and the fifth time in seven years according to the Jamaica Observer.[16]

European CEO[edit]

The New Economy[edit]

Business Destinations[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Supplements. World Finance. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  2. ^ World Finance Awards. World Finance. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  3. ^ "What's the worth of a prize with a price tag?". Stuff. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  4. ^ World Finance announces winners of 2017 awards. Pakistan Observer. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ^ Sampath excels at World Finance Awards. Daily Mirror, 4 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited – another carbon credit boiler room?". Redd-monitor.org. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Directors of Tullett Brown, Foxstone Carr, Carvier Limited get 14 year director bans". Redd-monitor.org. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  8. ^ "So how exactly did Worldwide Commodity Partners get this award?", Andrew Penman, 11 July 2012, Mirror.co.uk. Archived at archive.org. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  9. ^ "More multi-million pound carbon credit companies are shut down following Insolvency Service investigations". The Insolvency Service. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Banc De Binary Wins 'Best Trading Platform' from World Finance". PR Web. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Binary trading group winds down after regulatory issues". Financial Times. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017. (subscription required)
  12. ^ First Citizens wins World Finance awards. Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 2 October 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  13. ^ RCBC bags twin World Finance awards. Malaya Business Insight, 29 October 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  14. ^ Muscat Daily 1 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  15. ^ NCB Capital wins award for ‘Best Investment Management Company (Equities)’. Arab News, 22 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  16. ^ NCBIC wins third consecutive World Finance Pension Award. Hanniffa Patterson, Jamaica Observer, 9 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

External links[edit]

Media related to World News Media at Wikimedia Commons


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