SINGAPORE, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- An independent survey of more than 12,000 CFD &FX traders in Singapore has named CMC Markets as the number one for FX Education. It is the second year in a row that CMC Markets has won a "Best Education" Award. The year before Investment Trends, a specialist research organisation in the financial services sector,identified CMC as having the "Best CFD Education" programme in Singapore. This year's CFD & FX Report found that CMC is a leading provider of CFD and FX traders in Singapore, remaining the second largest CFD supplier in the region.
The award tops off a year of achieving industry accolades, with the most recent accolade being the Shares Magazine award for "Financial Provider of the year". The Shares Magazine Awards provide traders and investors with a voice in which recognises the innovative and high quality service and products from companies in the world of retail investment. CMC Markets was also recently voted Best CFD Broker by Trade2Win, the world's largest trading community with over 247,000 traders registered. In Australia, CMC Markets picked up the Cheapest Online Broker Award from prestigious personal finance publication Money Magazine for the second year in a row.
About CMC Markets Singapore
CMC Markets is a leading global provider of CFD and Foreign Exchange (FX). Since Peter Cruddas founded CMC Markets in 1989, the company now services more than 75,000 clients worldwide, who placed a total of 26 million trades last year. CMC Markets Singapore offers a range of Contract For Difference products, including Share, Forex, Commodities and Indices CFDs. CMC Markets is best known for its free comprehensive CFD & Forex education programme and won in 2011 the award for "Best Education" from Investment Trends (based on ratings given by 12,400 investors and traders in Singapore).