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 3rd Week of December 2025, GFM Review's judging panel is proud to award the following institutions:
Digital Finance Group
Digital Finance Group is a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm founded in 2015 by James Wo. With more than one billion dollars in assets under management, the firm invests across the Web3 ecosystem, including layer-one and layer-two protocols, decentralized finance, centralized finance infrastructure, non‑fungible token platforms, and interoperability projects. Its portfolio exceeds one hundred companies and protocols, featuring early positions in Circle, Ledger, CoinList, Solana, Polkadot, Near, and other prominent networks. The firm differentiates itself through a research‑driven investment approach and an integrated operating model. Beyond deploying venture capital, Digital Finance Group provides strategic consulting, market research, and access to a broad partner network of exchanges, market makers, wallet providers, auditors, media outlets, and developer communities. It maintains offices and operations across major financial centers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. While no major third‑party fund awards have been widely documented for Digital Finance Group itself, its leadership is frequently cited in industry discussions, and its portfolio companies have contributed to some of the most visible infrastructure and stablecoin developments in the digital asset sector.
Debut Infotech Pvt Ltd
Debut Infotech Pvt Ltd is an enterprise blockchain and Web3 development company headquartered in Mohali, India, with delivery capabilities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Building on over two decades of software experience and more than a decade in blockchain, the firm develops cryptocurrency exchanges, decentralized finance platforms, real‑world asset tokenization systems, smart contracts, and crypto wallets for startups, enterprises, and institutional clients. Its work spans centralized and decentralized exchanges, permissioned token standards for compliant real estate tokenization, and multi‑party computation based custody solutions. The company has supported high‑volume, regulated trading platforms and large‑scale tokenization of real estate portfolios, emphasizing security, scalability, and regulatory alignment. Debut Infotech’s projects have been associated with industry recognition, including acknowledgments from the Coffee Association Boston USA and Start‑up Columbia for supply‑chain transparency initiatives in coffee, and inclusion of client Everledger in the Forbes Blockchain 50 list for innovation in asset traceability. The firm also provides consulting on blockchain strategy, platform selection, and compliance‑ready architecture for global organizations.
Bitget
Bitget is a global digital asset exchange founded in 2018 and positioned as a Universal Exchange, serving more than 120 million users across over 150 countries. The company has been recognized as Best Crypto Trading Platform Asia 2025 and Best Institutional Crypto Service Asia 2025, reflecting its simultaneous focus on retail traders and professional institutions. It has rapidly grown into a top‑tier venue by trading volume, processing tens of billions in daily transactions. Industry recognition includes being named the second most trustworthy crypto exchange globally by Forbes in 2025, as well as receiving BeinCrypto’s 2025 Best Brand of the Year and Best Centralized Exchange awards. Bitget is known for pioneering copy trading and for integrating spot, derivatives, and other digital asset services within a single platform. Its institutional offering features competitive fees, high‑performance connectivity, and partnerships with leading custodians. The exchange emphasizes security through large protection funds, transparent reserves reporting, and adherence to international information security standards.
Finder
Finder is a global comparison and personal finance platform founded by Fred Schebesta and Frank Restuccia, originally launched in Australia and later expanded to markets including the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. The company helps consumers compare a wide range of financial products such as credit cards, bank accounts, loans, insurance, investments, mobile plans and energy services. Its business model is based on commissions from providers when customers sign up through Finder. Building on this, Finder has developed the Finder Rewards program, which shares part of this commission with users as digital gift cards when they complete eligible actions like opening accounts or funding investments. The program has featured collaborations with prominent fintechs including SoFi, Chime, eToro and Crypto.com, offering time limited incentives to drive qualified customer acquisition for partners. This multi party structure contributed to Finder receiving the Best FinTech Collaboration USA 2025 award, recognizing its role in coordinating shared value among consumers, financial institutions and the platform. Finder continues to invest in mobile applications, personalization and data driven comparison tools to strengthen trust, engagement and repeat usage across its growing user base.
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.