About Us

IG Markets Ltd is part of IG Group, which has several operating companies in the UK, offering a variety of speculative products to a retail and professional client base.

IG Markets

IG Markets is a market-maker in financial derivatives, principally Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on shares and indices, as well as a leading dealer in margined foreign exchange. Clients include brokers, fund managers and trading companies as well as private investors.

Registered Office: Friars House, 157-168 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8EZ (more...)

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

IG Index is Britain's leading financial spread betting firm, offering prices in a huge range of 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, speed of execution and tax-free* profits.

Corporate history

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.

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 led by Nat le Roux, then CEO, and backed by CVC Capital Partners. Over the last four years the group has 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.

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 £122 million, and generated a record profit before tax of £69 million.

IG Group's head office is in Central London. Other group offices are in Melbourne, Singapore, Dusseldorf, Paris and Madrid.

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).

* Tax law can change.