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

World Finance
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.

Awards
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. 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." The company's awards have since been extended to include Islamic finance.

Selected winners

 * In 2012, Sampath Bank of Sri Lanka won "Best Banking Group in Sri Lanka" according to the Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka.


 * Tullett Brown won "Commodities Broker of the Year in Western Europe". Later they went into liquidation "in the public interest" and the directors were banned.


 * Worldwide Commodity Partners (WCP) who were named "Fastest Growing Broker, Western Europe, 2012". 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".


 * In 2012, Banc De Binary won "Best Trading Platform". It was wound up in 2017 after regulatory issues on three continents.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * In 2016, Bank Dhofar won "Best Digital Bank in Oman 2016" at the World Finance Digital Banking Awards according to Muscat Daily.


 * 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.


 * 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.