INCISIVE MEDIA ONLINE FINANCE AWARDS 2005

Venue: Vinopolis, London SE1
Date: Thursday, 24th November, 2005

Online Finance Award 2005 Winners Announced

Selestia and Interactive Investor each scooped two categories, while Friends Provident received the award nominated by advisers at last night’s Incisive Media Online Finance Awards, hosted at Vinopolis on London’s Southbank.

Other category winners included Assureweb, BM Solutions, FundsNetwork, MoneyExtra, Prudential, Squaregain and Standard Life.

The Incisive Media Online Finance Awards are now in their sixth year and are designed to reward the progress financial groups bring to technology and information development and champion standards of excellence set by the online financial services industry.

Picking this year’s winners was challenging, with the panel of judges noting the high standard of entries and improvements and advances made over the past year.

Winners were awarded according to a range of criteria including:

- Overall use of technology, functionality and site tools
- Support and service levels on offer to users
- Comprehensiveness of any product range featured on the site
- Levels of security
- Innovation in both design and functionality
- Ease of use for intended users
- Appropriateness of site for target market
- Commercial growth and development of the site over the previous 12 months

Category Winners

Best Data and Quotation Site B2B
Winner: Assureweb
Highly Commended: Digital Look

Best Fund Supermarket Site B2B
Winner: Selestia

Best Investment Site B2B
Winner: Selestia
Highly Commended: Artemis Fund Managers
Trustnet Adviser

Best Life and Pensions Site B2B
Winner: Prudential
Highly Commended: Scottish Life
Standard Life

Best Mortgage Site B2B
Winner: BM Solutions

Best Protection Site B2B
Winner: Standard Life
Highly Commended: progress from Royal Liver

Best Spreadbetting Site B2C
Winner: Interactive Investor
Highly Commended: IG Index

Best Fund Supermarket Site B2C
Winner: FundsNetwork

Best Financial Advice Site B2C
Winner: MoneyExtra
Highly Commended: The Motley Fool
That Money Book, by Sesame

Best Investment Site B2C
Winner: Interactive Investor

Best Share Dealing Site B2C
Winner: Squaregain
Highly Commended: Interactive Investor

Advisers’ Choice Award
Friends Provident

This year’s panel of judges is:

Julie Henderson of IFAonline (chair)
David Lascelles of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation
Rory Curran of 1st Software
Peter Ballard of Foolproof
Peter Massey of Budd UK
Nick Baker of AdventisNMG
Paul Pettitt of Origo
Neil Andrews of the Chartered Insurance Institute
Ian Carrington of Google
Jonathan Boyd of Financial Marketing
Shaun Crawford of IBM Global Services

For further information on the awards, please contact:

General enquiries, sponsorship opportunities and table bookings:
Mike Jones mike.jones@incisivemedia.com. Tel: 0207 968 4530

Enquiries on entry or completion of entry form:
Julie Henderson julie.henderson@incisivemedia.com Tel: 020 7968 4571