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Gala draws firms and outlines expansion
Finance Magnates is holding its third annual awards gala in Limassol, Cyprus, on 6 November 2026. Representatives from financial-services firms are attending, with winners due to be announced from 22:00 to 22:30 local time.
Companies represented include CFI, Eightcap, FundingPips, TradingView, Match-Trade, HFM, CPattern, Axcera, TMGM, AIFO, Octrado, Libertex, FYNXT, Freedom, Base Markets, IQ Broker, Fundora, TradingPRO, FXBO, FotMarkets, iSAM Securities, Overchain, Brisk Markets, Tapaas, Excinity Connect, WeTrade, FiveComply and Headway.
Finance Magnates CEO Neophytos Papageorgiou opened the formal programme after the reception. He set out plans to grow the group's intelligence and education businesses, describing an ambition to equip companies with professional education, practical insight, dependable data and timely reporting to inform their business choices.
Papageorgiou said the group operates under Ultimate Group, which combines marketing, media and event services. He presented the awards as a way to recognise achievements and consider industry priorities, including service, useful innovation, leadership and client trust. CEO nominations were added for the first time this year. The jury comprises Yam Yehoshua, Editor-in-Chief at Finance Magnates; Pere Monguió, Co-CEO at FXStreet; Itai Levitan, Head of Strategy at investingLive; Nikolai Isayev, Chief Operating Officer and Editor-in-Chief at FinanceFeeds; and Rotem Amar, Co-Founder at FXEmpire, who was absent. The ceremony details were first reported by Finance Magnates.
- Welcome drinks and networking were scheduled from 18:30 to 20:00 local time.
- Guests then entered the main hall; opening remarks and a gala dinner formed part of the formal programme.
- The awards ceremony was scheduled for 22:00 to 22:30 local time.
Where this lands in the stack
For broker and prop-firm operations teams, the report describes an awards event and its programme, not a change to trading or back-office systems. It identifies no platform rollout, integration, migration or operational deadline, so it sets out no infrastructure work to schedule.
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