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We help people invest wisely.

By:James Knight & Michael Charalambous Updated: Jul 14,2022 Listen to this article Ad disclosure

Who we are

Forex Rating is a team of finance experts who care about helping people achieve financial freedom. Founded in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2012 in the bedroom of John Alexander Adam, today Forex Rating has offices in 3 countries and is headquartered in London, UK. The site has grown to have 40+ full-time staff and 30+ contributors, who publish content in 13 different languages for a readership of millions worldwide.

Since its inception, the site has been a collective effort to demystify investing and give regular people the tools they need to build a secure future. We publish informational guides, courses, and news that are jargon-free and accessible even to the newest investor. This is how, in under a decade, Forex Rating has grown to become one of the UK’s most trusted financial comparison brands, constantly striving to provide new tools and content to help our users make better financial decisions.

Forex Rating is owned by Investoo Group and backed by Kinetic Investments. Both of these organisations have been key to accelerating the growth of Forex Rating into an internationally recognised brand.

Our vision, mission, and values

Our vision

Our vision is that financial freedom is achievable for everyone.

Our mission

We’re on a mission to make investing easy and effortless for everyone. We help people make better investment decisions by providing simple-to-understand, unbiased information, tools, and services.

Our values

All of Forex Rating’s work is guided by our five core values, which are:

Be thirsty for knowledge. We have a constant appetite to learn, and to pass on the best possible information to our users.
Be transparent. We want all our users to know they can trust us. We’re always honest and transparent with no extra information hidden away in terms and conditions.
Be efficient. People want accurate, easily-digestible information, and that’s what we aim to provide. At Forex Rating we believe that taking the direct route is always best.
Be ambitious. We want everyone to be the best at whatever they do, whether that’s our employees pushing us to new heights, or our users taking control of their futures.
Be open. We want all our users to know they can trust us. We’re always honest and transparent with no extra information hidden away in terms and conditions.

Forex Rating in numbers

Years active: 10
Employees: 40+
Users: 11 million
Languages available: 13
Countries active: 90+
Words written weekly: 125,000+
Guides published: 1,200+
Hours clocked on Zoom: 700+

How does Forex Rating work?

Forex Rating works in two ways: educating and comparing.

We provide information to help users make smarter investment decisions, and then compare the different products and services available to them. Our content includes:

Breaking investment news. We help users keep up to date with the markets by reporting any major news as it comes in.
Live market data. If you want to find out how markets around the world are performing right now, you’ll find what you need on Forex Rating.
Live market data. If you want to find out how markets around the world are performing right now, you’ll find what you need on Forex Rating.
How-to guides. The guides on Forex Rating will take you through any financial process you’re confused about, step-by-step.
Product and service reviews. To help you make better informed decisions when investing your money, we publish in-depth reviews including easy-to-navigate comparison tables.
Product and service reviews. To help you make better informed decisions when investing your money, we publish in-depth reviews including easy-to-navigate comparison tables.

Through Forex Rating’s content, we aim to educate our users about the options available to them and make sure they’re making the best possible moves with their money.

As a separate party to the platforms we review, we’re not able to take responsibility for the information displayed on their sites, nor can we make any guarantees about the services they provide. You can find out more about our commercial relationships in our Editorial Policy.

Our history

Forex Rating was founded in 2012 by John Alexander Adam, an experienced financial analyst based in Sofia, Bulgaria. John led the company until April 2017, when Forex Rating was acquired by Investoo Group – a financial media company operating out of the centre of London. Since this acquisition, Forex Rating has gone on to become one of the investment industry’s leading websites. To date the site has been featured in a number of prestigious publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Barrons, CoinDesk, Quartz Magazine, Cointelegraph, Forbes, Bitcoin.com, Fortune, Investing Cube, Lifehack, Asia Times, Yahoo! Finance, and The Sun.

Timeline

October 2012: Forex Rating launches primarily as a news & analysis portal.
January 2014: Website hits 1,000 users a day for the first time.
March 2014: Commodities and forex sections launched
August 2015: Forex Rating upgrades to design 2.0, and partners up with broker analysts.
January 2016: Forex Rating upgrades to design 2.1.
June 2016: Forex Rating has served over 1 million users.
November 2016: Team expands to 15 employees
April 2017: Forex Rating is acquired by Investoo Group and given a financial expansion booster.
July 2017: Forex Rating begins coverage of cryptocurrency markets.
December 2017: Forex Rating has served over 2.5 million users amid the Bitcoin boom.
March 2018: Forex Rating has served over 3.5 million users.
November 2019: Investoo Group hires a new General Manager to take Forex Rating to the next level. Forex Rating begins ‘the 2020 project’, an undertaking to redevelop the vision, mission, and values offering Forex Rating represents. Forex Rating aims to re-think its brand, tools, and investing strategy.
December 2019: Forex Rating immediately begins operations in German, Spanish, and Italian-speaking markets.
January 2020: Forex Rating begins to roll out all-new simplified investing content for the ‘man on the street’.
March 2020: Covid outbreak causes a worldwide surge in home-based retail investors looking for other means of generating income. Forex Rating has served over 5.5 million users.
May 2020: Forex Rating launches over 100,000 stock & crypto data quotes in beta mode.
August 2020: Forex Rating begins operations in French, Dutch, and Swedish-speaking markets.
November 2020: Forex Rating rolls out its range of investment calculators.
January 2021: Forex Rating launches an all-new brand, website, vision, mission, values, and mobile-first user experience design. The website passes 500,000 readers in a month for the first time.
April 2021: Forex Rating upgrades its 100,000+ stock & crypto data quotes.
May 2021: Forex Rating has served over 11 million users.
September 2021: Forex Rating readers have spent more than 150,000 hours browsing the site.
December 2021: Forex Rating hits more than 200m search impressions in 2021, taking it to over a billion since the site’s foundation.
April 2022: Forex Rating begins operations in Danish, Finnish, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, and Portuguese-speaking markets.

Key questions

Who funds Forex Rating?

Forex Rating’s financial backing comes from our parent company, Investoo Group. Based in the heart of London, Investoo Group specialises in digitally connecting investment platforms with new users. As one of the largest publishing & financial lead generation companies in the world, the backing of Investoo Group has enabled Forex Rating to grow at pace and become one of the industry’s leading websites.

Can Forex Rating give me investment advice?

No, we don’t offer investment advice in the same way a financial advisor or wealth manager would. What we do is provide you with the information you need to make smarter decisions with your money, and partner with a variety of platforms that can help you invest wisely. The reviews, articles, and comparisons available on Forex Rating can help you decide how and where you want to invest, but if you are still uncertain then you might want to consider contacting a financial advisor.

How does Forex Rating use my data?

Forex Rating doesn’t harvest or sell user data. The only form of data we collect is in the form of email addresses when users sign up for our mailing list. These addresses are used solely to send newsletters and alerts as agreed to by each user.

Does Forex Rating use cookies?

We do use cookies in order to tailor the user experience. These are used to tell which country our users are accessing the site from, and what sort of device they’re on.

We do this to ensure that content is displayed in the correct language and formatted correctly. You can find the details of what cookies we use by reading our privacy policy.