About Us
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.
A market leading CFD provider
Launched in 1999, IG Markets is a leader in Contracts for Difference (CFDs), delivering an unparalleled customer service alongside innovative trading technology. With almost 1 in 3 UK CFD accounts, clients cite the ease and reliability of our trading platform, reputation as a market leader and low commissions as reasons for opening an account with us.
Our extensive range of markets offers you the ability to trade CFDs on thousands of leading UK and international stocks; together with round the clock trading on forex, commodities and the widest selection of 24-hour stock indices from any CFD provider.
Innovative technology
IG Markets provides the best resources available to CFD traders. Recent innovations include multi-venue technology which finds the best prices from primary exchanges, alongside a charting package that caters for even the most sophisticated of analyst.
This is all available on PureDeal, our level 1 trading platform. Designed to provide optimum performance, PureDeal delivers fast-execution and one-click dealing, even during periods of high demand. You can also operate your CFD trading account via mobile phone and smart phone.
Level 2 access
Trade directly into the order books of the world’s leading exchanges with PureDMA. Providing Direct Market Access (DMA) through the PureDeal platform, PureDMA allows you to view market depth, enter stock auctions held outside normal trading hours and trade within the market spread.
Also available, our standalone platform L2 Dealer provides unrivalled market transparency from an expert trading platform.
Global Reach
IG Markets is part of the IG Group. The group's first company, IG Index, was founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler to give investors the opportunity to bet on movements in the price of gold, without having to actually buy or sell the physical commodity in the market.
As IG Group continued to grow it widened its operations to include Contracts for Difference (CFD), foreign exchange dealing, and sports spread betting, as well as expanding overseas, with offices in America, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Luxembourg..
Today IG Group Holdings plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent member of the FTSE 250 Index. The Group has over 100,000 clients worldwide, making more than one million transactions per month. In the year to May 2009, the Group achieved a turnover of £257m (up 40%), and generated a record profit before tax of £131m (up 33%).
Key dates
1974
IG Index, the original IG Group company, is founded. The first financial spread betting company in Britain, IG Index is today the leading operation of its type in the world.
1982
IG Index is the first company in the UK to start taking spread bets on the share prices of FT 30 companies.
1999
IG Markets is launched, specialising in financial derivatives, principally Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on shares and indices, and margined Foreign Exchange
2000
IG Group is floated for the first time and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
2002
IG Group expands into Australia and becomes the country's first CFD provider
2006
The Group continues to expand - opening offices in Singapore and Germany
2007
The award-winning PureDeal dealing platform is unveiled.
2008
IG Markets brings PureDeal to the iPhone. Trailing Stops and DealThru Charts are introduced. IG Group acquires FXOnline in Japan.
2009
A report by Investment Trends confirms IG Markets as the single biggest provider of CFD accounts in the UK.
Regulation
IG Index and IG Markets are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA Register number for IG Markets is 195355. 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.