World News Media

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World News Media Ltd.
Company typePrivate company limited by shares
IndustryPrint, web & video publishing
Founded2004
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Key people
Richard Willcox, Accounts Director
ProductsWorld Finance
The New Economy
ServicesWorld Finance Awards
Sponsored supplements
OwnerHoward Angel
Website www.worldfinance.com

World News Media Limited was established in 2004 and trades from London, UK. It is the publisher of World Finance magazine which is tied to the marketing of numerous vanity awards under the name of the World Finance Awards. It also publishes The New Economy.

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History and financials

The company was established in July 2004. [1] Its registered office is on Judd Street, London, and its main corporate office is at 40 Compton Street, London. [2] The director and principal shareholder is Howard Angel. [1] As at 31 August 2019, the company had net shareholder's funds of £76,193 (2018, negative £37,061). It has issued and paid-up share capital of £100. [1]

Magazines

A World Finance branded newsagent in Goodge Street, London. World Finance branded Goodge Street News.jpg
A World Finance branded newsagent in Goodge Street, London.

The company publishes the magazines World Finance and The New Economy, [3] bi-monthly or less frequently, in print and electronically free of charge by Issuu along with iPad and Android editions. The magazines feature in-house produced copy plus topical non-exclusive agency-produced articles. Approx four editorials per issue are credited to Project Syndicate . Features, profile award winners and sponsored supplements are produced such as Project Finance Deals of the Year - 2015, Banking in Nigeria, and Sustainable Development in Morocco. [4]

Business Destinations and European CEO are published by associated company Tower Business Media Limited on a similar basis and have their own set of awards. [5] [6]

World Finance Awards

A World Finance award for "Best Non-Life Insurance Company, Kazakhstan", 2013. World Finance Award.jpg
A World Finance award for "Best Non-Life Insurance Company, Kazakhstan", 2013.
A winner from Kazakhstan receiving their award in 2013. N.Tul'chinskii v studii Londonskoi Fondovoi Birzhi poluchaet nagradu World Finance.jpg
A winner from Kazakhstan receiving their award in 2013.

As of 2021, the company provided awards in 13 different categories from banking to pension funds under the name of the World Finance Awards, which started in 2007. [7] Tim Hunter, writing in Stuff in 2014, 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." [8] The company's awards have since been extended to include Islamic finance. [9]

In January 2017, the consumer watchdog of Botswana was threatened with a legal action for defamation by World News Media for questioning the criteria by which various banks in Botswana had been given a World Finance Award in 2012. [10]

Selected winners

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