LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --     World First, one of the UK's leading foreign exchange brokers, is
delighted to announce it has won the Queen's Award for International Trade.

World First won the award for offering its customers exceptional exchange
rates, service and innovative products which have seen its overseas earnings
increase six-fold over the last three years.

Jonathan Quin, managing director of World First commented, "Winning the
Queen's Award for International Trade is an incredible honour. Everyone at
World First is very proud of the foreign exchange service we provide and it
is our clients' ongoing belief and trust in us that has helped us achieve
this major award.

"The ethos at World First is simply that the customer comes first. The
amount of business that comes through the door from personal recommendations
is testament to this.

"I would also like to say a special thank you to all World First
employees without whom, we would not be the proud winners of such an
accolade."

Winning the award also coincides with World First celebrating five years
of operations. Originally set up in the basement of Jonathan's house, the
company has seen five years of impressive growth and now employs over 70
employees with headquarters in London and international offices in Australia
and New Zealand.

Jonathan continues, "Our international growth now means we can offer a 24
hour service to our clients during the working week. In the past year we have
also introduced foreign currency options to our portfolio of services; we are
currently the only broker in the UK to offer this service, for which we are
FSA-authorised."

The Queens Awards are presented in three categories and the winners are
announced on the Queen's birthday, 21 April.

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Notes for editors:

World First is a currency exchange broker, serving both private and
corporate clients. Set up in 2004 by directors Jonathan Quin and Nick
Robinson, the company is experiencing very fast growth and now employs over
70 people in three offices (London, UK, Sydney, Australia and Hamilton, New
Zealand). It has 20,000 clients and transacted over GBP1 billion in 2008.

World First's corporate clients are generally import or export companies,
making regular transfers. World First helps them minimise their exchange rate
risk and manage their currency exposure.

Private clients largely use broker services to purchase a property
abroad, usually a second home or investment or to emigrate.

World First is also now offering currency options to SMEs and private
clients through World First Markets Ltd, which is authorised and regulated in
the UK by the FSA. World First is the first and currently only broker to
offer currency options which have, until now, been the preserve of very large
corporate organisations through their banks.

For more about World First visit: http://www.worldfirst.com/about_us.html

For further information contact:

    Wendy Casterton
    t: +44(0)20-7801-1060
    e: wendy.casterton@worldfirst.com
    w: UK/US/Europe: http://www.worldfirst.com
    Australia: http://www.worldfirst.com.au
    New Zealand: http://www.worldfirst.net.nz