Dubai, UAE, 18 February, 2026 – Deriv has won the Best Trade Execution Award (MEA) at iFX Expo Dubai 2026. Established in 1999, the company has spent more than 26 years building its trading infrastructure around transparent pricing, fast execution, and minimal slippage — the standards that this award recognises.
iFX Expo Dubai is one of the largest B2B financial services exhibitions in the region, connecting brokers, technology providers, and institutional players across the fintech and trading industry.
The award is the eighth major industry recognition Deriv has received since 2024, spanning execution, transparency, and innovation categories across multiple award bodies including Ultimate Fintech, Global Forex Awards, and Finance Magnates.
The recognition comes less than a year after Deriv obtained the UAE's Capital Market Authority (CMA, formerly the Securities and Commodities Authority) licences in October 2025, including Category 1 Trading Broker and Category 5 Financial Consultant approvals, establishing a regulated presence in one of the region’s most significant financial hubs.
Aggelos Armenatzoglo, Head of Dealing at Deriv, said: "Being recognised for best trade execution reflects our commitment to delivering consistently strong outcomes for clients including tight pricing, fast execution and minimal slippage. Just as importantly, it reinforces our focus on transparency and execution quality that helps build trust and raise standards across the industry."
How Deriv delivers execution quality
Deriv's execution performance is built on four pillars:
- Infrastructure and uptime: Deriv operates a decentralised server architecture designed to minimise latency and network congestion, delivering sub-millisecond execution speeds and maintaining a 99.99% uptime record.
- Minimised slippage through advanced routing: An intelligent order-routing system captures the best available market prices, significantly reducing slippage across forex, commodities, stocks, and crypto.
- Consistent pricing under pressure: Deep liquidity pools and advanced aggregation maintain tight, stable spreads and pricing consistency, even during extreme market volatility and high-volume news events.
- Minimum rejections and high fill rates: Automated market execution and high-tier liquidity ensure minimal rejections and requotes, giving traders reliable entry and exit points.
This execution quality is delivered consistently across all trading scenarios:
- High-volatility periods: Execution speed and reliability maintained even during peak market volatility.
- Multiple asset classes: Consistent execution quality across forex, commodities, stocks, indices, cryptocurrencies, and ETFs.
- 24/7 markets: Uninterrupted execution on proprietary synthetic indices that trade around the clock and operate independently of real-world market events.
- All platform types: Whether traders use MT5, cTrader, or Deriv's proprietary platforms, execution standards remain consistently high.
Regulation and security
Deriv is regulated by multiple financial authorities including the CMA, MFSA, LFSA, VFSC, MFSC, and CIMA. Client accounts are protected by encryption, two-factor authentication, and fraud detection systems.
For more information, visit deriv.com.
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