Recognition Is Editorial
Astor Review Awards
Three recognitions from Issue 01. Pick a cover to see who was named — Best Emerging Broker, Entrepreneur of the Month, and Digital Creator of the Month.
Astor Review Awards 2026
Best Emerging Broker: Olympus Capital
After a careful review across multiple parameters, our first recognition in Issue 01 goes to Olympus Capital, named Best Emerging Broker 2026.
The category is unforgiving. New multi-asset brokerages compete against incumbents with years of infrastructure behind them, and most new entrants don’t make it past year three. Olympus Capital stood out for exponential growth built on competitive spreads, copy-trading options, and flexible rebate structures for partners — the fundamentals that actually decide whether traders stay.
About Olympus Capital
Who they are
Olympus Capital is a multi-asset brokerage built across multiple jurisdictions rather than a single-regulator footprint. It offers traders competitive spreads and copy-trading, and a structured rebate programme for introducing partners — treating regulatory and execution infrastructure as part of the product, not a cost to defer.
More at olympuscapitalfx.com. Full citation in Issue 01 of Astor Review.
What the Category Rewards
Four things judged, not one growth number.
Multi-jurisdiction licensing
A business that does not depend on any single regulator’s posture, or a client base concentrated in one market.
Execution quality
Retail brokerage competes on execution — an engineering problem before it’s a marketing one.
Partner infrastructure
An introducing-broker programme built to scale, with transparent terms partners can actually use.
Client asset protection
Segregation, custody and withdrawal reliability — invisible when it works, which is why it’s so often deferred.
From the Team
Ashmeet Arora, Chief Executive Officer, Olympus Capital
“When I joined Olympus, the business ran from a single office in St. Lucia. A year later it operates across multiple jurisdictions, and the growth has come month on month rather than in bursts. Anyone can buy a quarter of growth in this industry. Compounding requires the infrastructure underneath to keep pace, and most of the last twelve months went into infrastructure rather than acquisition.”
“Our legal team is working through applications for additional licences so Olympus can operate in more jurisdictions properly rather than opportunistically. There are shortcuts available in this industry and we are not taking them, because a firm holding client money either does that work or it does not, and clients find out which eventually.”
Nominations Open
Best Scaled-Up Startup 2026
Not the largest raise. Not the highest valuation. The company that took something working at small scale and made it work at large scale — a different and considerably harder problem than starting.
Customers, not capital raised
A funding round is a bet somebody else made. It is not an achievement.
Operational durability
The thing still works at ten times the volume — systems, service and margins that survived scaling.
A defensible position
A market advantage that rests on something other than being better funded than the competition.
Evidence something improved
For customers, for an industry, or for people who never appear in the pitch deck.
Open globally, any sector, any company that has moved from early traction to operating scale. No entry fee. Nominations close 30 November 2026, shortlist announced 15 December 2026, winner announced 15 January 2027.