Mr Patrick Ho (left), Managing Director of iFAST Financial (HK) Limited is pleased to win the awards. Beside Mr Ho, is Mr Charles Ng, Associate the Director-General of Invest Hong Kong.

iFAST Financial (HK) Limited (“iFAST Financial”) and its online distribution arm Fundsupermart.com have been named winners of the “Fund Platform” and “Online Usability” awards respectively in The Best Practice Financial Services Award 2009.

Organised by the Benchmark Magazine and the Best Practice Management Magazine, the Best Practice Financial Services Award 2009 recognises financial services institutions of their efforts in adopting higher standards to protect investors’ interests and the society as a whole. The award has altogether 11 categories. Two are individual categories and the remaining nine are company categories. Winners of the award represent the best applicants in adopting best practices to excel in their value propositions and stand out from the industry.

In the winner selection process, three Outstanding Achievement Award winners are picked from each category in the first round and then compete as finalists in the final round. After being nominated in the first round, iFAST Financial and Fundsupermart.com have won the “Best-in-Class” awards for categories of “Fund Platform” and “Online Usability” respectively in the final round.

Mr Patrick Ho, Managing Director of iFAST Financial (HK) Limited, expresses his happiness for winning the titles: “We are delighted that our services have been recognised by the ‘Fund Platform’ and ‘Online Usability’ awards. We will strive to achieve our mission of ‘to help investors around the world invest globally and profitably’ by tapping on our regional expertise and experience, so as to bring sustainable development and opportunities to our staff, customers and the mutual fund industry.”

Fundsupermart.com, the online distribution arm of iFAST, has won the “Online Usability: Best-In-Class” award for its commitment in providing the best online tools and technologies to mutual fund investors. Calvin Cheung, General Manager of Fundsupermart.com (HK) says: “We aim to provide investors with the best online information and investment tools, and we are proud that our performance in Hong Kong has been recognised in the industry. This endorsement will spur us to keep devoting our resources to innovate and improve the website, and help Hong Kong investors make better investment decisions.”

iFAST Financial (HK) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of iFAST Corporation Ptd Ltd (“iFAST Corporation”).

iFAST Corporation was established in January 2000 and is now the holding company for its subsidiaries in Asia, including iFAST Financial Pte Ltd - Singapore’s leading provider of investment administration platform for IFAs and the largest online mutual fund distributor. iFAST launched its Hong Kong B2C (Fundsupermart.com) and B2B businesses in July 2007 and July 2008 respectively through iFAST Financial (HK) Limited. iFAST Corp is also present in Malaysia, with the launch of the two B2C and B2B platforms in 2008. In April 2009, iFAST Corp expanded its business to India.

More about iFAST Corp

iFAST Corp’s has two corporate shareholders: SPH AsiaOne Pte Ltd (the Internet arm of Singapore Press Holdings) and DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd (51% owned by OSK Investment Bank Bhd of Malaysia and 49% associate of Deutsche Bank).

For more information of iFAST Corp, please visit www.ifastcorp.com.