Awards & recognitions

Saxo Bank picks up five Euromoney awards

Saxo Bank came first in five categories in Euromoney's FX Poll for 2009, which is voted in by clients. In the Multi-Bank Ratings category Saxo Bank won top prize for its speed of execution, price & volume transparency and its effective & innovative risk-management tools. The Bank also won the first prize for its consistent pricing in FX Options. Saxo Bank also came in first in the Single Bank Ratings category for its quality & reliability of repricing.

Saxo Bank Voted Best Bank for FX Investors for Third Year Running

For the third year in a row, Saxo Bank won FX Week’s Best Bank for FX for Investors. Saxo Bank was again voted into the top spot by FX market professionals and readers of the industry’s flagship publication FX Week. The FX Week Best Bank Awards are based upon surveys of FX market professionals and are considered a benchmark for performance in the global FX industry.

Saxo Bank receives accolade for Best Retail Platform

2 July 2008: For the fourth consecutive year, Saxo Bank has been awarded as the Best retail platform at the 5th annual e-FX awards, sponsored by FX Week Magazine. "It’s a great accomplishment and honour for Saxo Bank to win this award for the fourth time," say Saxo Bank’s co-CEOs Kim Fournais and Lars Seier Christensen in a joint statement. In addition to winning the Best retail platform, Saxo Bank was also shortlisted in the category for Best liquidity outsourcing service.

Profit & Loss awards Best Retail Platform Honour to Saxo Bank

4 April 2008: For the second consecutive year, UK’s leading finance magazine, Profit & Loss, awarded Saxo Bank with Best retail platform. The recognition emphasises Saxo Bank’s commitment to customer service and the wide array of markets and instruments available on SaxoTrader. The award was presented to Saxo Bank at an event at the Royal Mint Court in London.

Euromoney recognises Saxo Bank as Best Provider of FX services in Denmark

8 January 2008: Euromoney awarded Saxo Bank Best Provider of FX Services for high net-worth individuals in Denmark. Although Saxo Bank has won several Euromoney awards, this is the first time Saxo Bank has been recognised as the Best Provider of FX Services in Denmark. The distinction is based on responses from more than 1200 private banking professionals and nearly 400 institutions in more than 50 countries.

Saxo Bank voted Best Bank for FX Investors for second year running

14 November, 2007: Saxo Bank was once again awarded FX Week’s Best Bank for FX for Investors. The Copenhagen-based online investment bank was once more voted into the top spot by readers of the industry’s flagship publication, consisting of FX market professionals. The FX Week Best Bank Awards are a benchmark for performance in the global FX industry and are considered to be the most accurate indicator of who is leading the market. The results of FX Week’s Best Bank are voted on by market professionals and reflect Saxo Bank’s sophistication in serving investors in FX trading.

Saxo Bank awarded Best Retail Platform at 2007 e-FX Awards

10 July, 2007: For the third year in a row, Saxo Bank took home the award for Best Retail Platform at the 4th annual e-FX Awards, sponsored by FX Week Magazine in New York. Winning the top prize in this fiercely competitive category shows that SaxoTrader is the best, most well-rounded offering to consumers in Forex trading. Moreover, Lars Seier Christensen and Kim Fournais, co-founders and co-CEOs of Saxo Bank, took home the coveted Achievement award, which is presented to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the success of the e-FX industry.

Multiple wins for Saxo Bank in Euromoney FX Poll

04 May, 2007: In the 29th annual Euromoney FX Poll, Saxo Bank turned in another strong performance, placing among the top 25 foreign exchange banks worldwide for the first time in its history. Saxo Bank also took home four first-place finishes in the single-bank platform category, for speed of execution, quality of pricing, post-trade services and options services.

Profit & Loss awards Best Retail Platform honour to Saxo Bank

30 March, 2007: Saxo Bank was awarded Best Retail platform by Profit & Loss Magazine. The magazine highlighted Saxo Bank’s commitment to customer service and the wide array of markets and instruments available on its signature platform, the SaxoTrader, which gives investors access to over 150+ FX crosses, including many emerging markets currencies. In commenting on Saxo Bank’s retail offering, Profit & Loss observes, "Ultimately, we see the Saxo model as fulfilling the basic criteria of servicing a predominantly retail client base - its model is built around the longevity of relationship and not how quickly a client loses money.

Best Retail Platform at the 3rd annual e-FX Awards

12 July, 2006: Best in class: Saxo Bank took home the award for Best Retail Platform at the 3rd annual e-FX Awards, sponsored by FX Week Magazine in New York. This is the latest in a string of accolades awarded by the industry’s leading trade publications.

In presenting the top prize, FX Week editor Simon Falush, speaking on behalf of the awards jury, cited Saxo Bank’s rapid growth from its origins as a regional FX provider to becoming a respected peer of the world’s largest financial institutions.

Saxo Bank clinches top honors in Euromoney FX Poll

4 May, 2006: Saxo Bank picked up honors in three categories in this year’s Euromoney FX Poll, widely regarded as the industry benchmark for foreign exchange trading. The bank won accolades in three categories, Multi Bank Platform, Single Bank Platform and the Aggregated Awards. In the single bank platform category, Saxo Bank took top honors in quality of pricing, research and analysis, FX options and prime brokerage, and finished in the top three in speed of execution and post-trade services. In the multi-bank platform category, Saxo Bank took first place in speed of execution, price improvement capacity and research and analysis, and finished in the top three in straight-through processing.

Saxo Bank gains ground in FX Week's Best Bank awards. Captures honors in multiple categories

25 November, 2005: The annual Best Banks awards emphasise overall performance and contribution as well as pace-setting innovation, execution and service indicators. For Saxo Bank, recognition in these four critical categories underscores the Bank's continued focus on facilitation, IT commitment and depth of scalable value-added capabilities.

Saxo Bank Captures "Best Retail Platform" e-FX Award in New York

14 July, 2005: The editors and judges at FX Week awarded "Best Retail Platform for FX trading" to Saxo Bank at its second annual US congress, FX Week USA 2005. This closely watched and competitive category effectively crowns the winner as the thoroughbred of the industry. The SaxoTrader, a multi-product information, execution and risk management platform, stepped past competing offerings from FXCM, CMC, Gain Capital and many other well-known platforms marking its eighth consecutive blue ribbon performance since entering the awards field in 2003.

Euromoney FX Poll 2005

With emphasis on e-research and analysis, Saxo Bank was recognised again by users in the Euromoney FX Poll 2005.

Amongst numerous other ratings, the SaxoTrader trading platform ascended from 7th to 5th place as the best performer for research and analysis.

Saxo Bank captures top honors in global FX Technology Poll

Saxo Bank earned top honors in the 2005 Euromoney Technology Poll as best in class for FX dealer-to-client trading (non bank) as well as best in class interdealer options (non-bank). The survey of 1,800 professionals underscores the significant market presence and industry recognition the Danish investment bank has gained in the last several years.

Saxo Bank lifted into Top 10 Best Banks for FX Dealing

Investors in the FX Week Annual Survey voted Saxo Bank into the top 10 banks for overall FX dealing two years running. The Bank ranked #3 in E-Trading for investors and #4 in Best Dealing Technology.

Saxo Bank captures FXweek first prize as best bank-to-client liquidity outsourcing service

Saxo Bank captured first prize in the important best liquidity outsourcing service, bank to client category in the first FX Week e-FX Award. In a competitive field that included the leading FX providers for both institutional and retail business, the Danish investment bank was recognized for being focused on their business strategy to push the white labelling partner market.

Saxo Bank ranks with the world's leading banks in Euromoney's FX Poll 2004

Saxo Bank was ranked amongst some of the world's leading banks in a number of categories of the Euromoney FX Poll 2004. The poll again highlighted the functionality and ease-of-use of the SaxoTrader trading platform, and the exceptional quality of Saxo Bank's technology and service.

FX Week — Saxo Bank voted in top 3 'Best Bank in E-Trading'

In FX Week's annual survey of the industry, Saxo Bank was voted third best in the category ‘best bank in e-trading' by investors, displacing names like Goldman Sachs, Dresdner and JP Morgan. This designation comes just two weeks after Euromoney Magazine named Saxo Bank “best cross-product platform for private investors”.

Euromoney award for Best Online Trading Platform for private Investors 2003

Saxo Bank earned the award for best online trading platform for private investors at the Euromoney Technology Awards annual dinner in London on 6 November. This achievement comes on top of a stunning series of market gains and business performance metrics recorded by the Danish investment bank. The award underscores the bank's rapid ascension to a more prominent and recognised position in the global capital markets industry. The star of the award is the firm's trading platform, the SaxoTrader, a custom engineering information and execution system developed by the bank's own IT group over the past six years.

Saxo Bank awarded Institutional FX provider of the year 2008

2 June 2008: In June 2008, the coveted World Finance magazine recognised Saxo Bank as the Institutional FX provider of the year. This marks the first time that Saxo Bank has received an accolade from the London-based magazine. This prestigious recognition comes in only a few weeks after Saxo Bank was awarded by Euromoney as the fastest growing FX bank in 2008.

Saxo Bank awarded fastest growing FX bank

7 May 2008: Saxo Bank gained first-time recognition as the fastest growing FX Bank for the $100-250 billion a year client segment. The award was presented in London at Euromoney’s annual FX market awards dinner. In addition to the award, Saxo Bank moved up to 23rd place in the overall Global Market Share Ranking. For 30 years Euromoney’s annual FX survey has been widely recognised as the industry benchmark for the FX market and this year’s poll tallied almost 10,000 votes.