IG Markets Ltd is part of IG Group, which has several operating companies offering a variety of speculative products to a retail and professional client base.
- FTSE 250 member
- Market cap: £1.2 billion
- Over 65,000 active clients worldwide
- FSA-regulated
Registered Office:
Friars House
157-168 Blackfriars Road
London
SE1 8EZ
Other group offices are in Melbourne, Singapore, Dusseldorf, Paris and Madrid.
IG Markets Ltd
IG Markets specialises in financial derivatives, principally Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on shares and indices, as well as being a leading dealer in margined Foreign Exchange. Clients include brokers, fund managers and trading companies plus private investors.
IG Markets Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under number 04008957. VAT registration number 761 2978 07. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. FSA Register number 195355.
IG Index plc
IG Index is Britain's leading financial spread betting company, offering prices in a huge range of stock indices, currencies, commodities and options, as well as thousands of individual shares.
Financial spread betting has grown exponentially in the last decade because it offers traders and investors a unique combination of flexibility and speed of execution across a comprehensive range of markets.
Corporate history
1974
IG Index, the original IG Group company, was founded in 1974. It was the first financial spread betting company in Britain, and is today the leading operation of its type in the world. The group expanded rapidly in the 1990s with the introduction of Foreign Exchange dealing, Contracts for Differences (CFDs) and sports spread betting.
2000
In 2000 IG Group was floated on the London Stock Exchange. In 2003 the founder's decision to sell his remaining interest in the company compelled a management buyout backed by CVC Capital Partners.
The group continued to expand its product range and scope of operations through the introduction of binary betting and the establishment of a rapidly growing business in Australia.
2005
In May 2005, IG Group Holdings plc was floated on the main list of the London Stock Exchange. Since then it has been promoted to become a member of the FTSE 250 and currently has a market capitalisation of around £1.2 billion.
IG Group companies have over 65,000 clients worldwide making around 900,000 transactions a month, over 90% of them online. In the year to May 2007, the Group achieved a turnover of £122m, and generated a record profit before tax of £69m.
Regulation
IG Index and IG Markets are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). IG Markets is a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The group's Australian operations are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The group's Singapore operations are regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
All Twoway-Reflect client accounts with IG Markets are treated as retail customers and, as such, each client’s funds are segregated from IGMarket's company funds and held in a client segregated account. This offers clients the greatest level of protection possible. Funds are subject to the protections offered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (http://www.fscs.org.uk/) granted under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA).
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