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Strength and Security with IG Markets
With trading volumes and market volatility both extremely high, it is important that your CFD provider gives you an efficient and reliable service. IG Markets offers the UK’s leading CFD service in terms of client satisfaction and our PureDeal platform is renowned for its performance, speed and reliability.
On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May, more than 400,000 trades were executed on PureDeal each day, and during April our award-winning platform took over 5 million trades.
UK’s number one CFD provider
In 2009 an independent survey confirmed that we are the UK’s largest single CFD provider and in overall client satisfaction we came first in a range of areas, including for the reliability and performance of our trading platform.
We were also first for efficiency of taking trades and consistency of filling trades at the quoted price. Find out more about the Investment Trends survey.
Strength and security
IG Markets is part of IG Group Holdings PLC, a multi-national, FTSE 250-listed organisation with more than 85,000 clients across the globe.
- IG Markets is a global presence, offering a CFD service across key European countries, Australia, Singapore, the USA and Japan.
- As of 31 May 2009, on the latest published balance sheet, IG Group had total assets of £988 million.
- IG Group currently employs over 850 people worldwide.
With some uncertainty surrounding the financial sector and high levels of market volatility generally, you may be concerned about where your trading funds are held. At IG Markets, we segregate your funds in a designated account, which is ring-fenced from IG Markets itself and covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, to make sure your money is safe.
Find out more about our group of companies by visiting the IG Group website.
PureDeal technology and reliability
We realise that a fully-reliable service, high speed of execution and accurate price quotations are crucial to your trading, which is why PureDeal has been designed to deliver an outstanding service – even during periods of exceptionally high demand.
You can trade a huge range of markets with PureDeal and the platform includes an array of tools and features to help you find the best prices.
PureDeal benefits include:
- Ultra-fast execution and one-click dealing
- Price Improvement
- Access to thousands of shares, plus indices, forex, commodities and more
- Free Reuters news package
- Professional-level charts
- Fully customisable interface
You can find out more about the platform by viewing our Platform Guide.
