About Us
Established in 1974, IG Index was the world's first financial spread betting company. Today, as part of the global IG Group, it is the leading operation of its type in the world.
IG Index is part of IG Group Holdings plc:
- A UK company, listed on the London Stock Exchange
- A constituent of the FTSE 250 index
- Over 140,000 clients worldwide; more than five million transactions per month
- Group HQ in London and 14 global offices across five continents
As a retail client your funds are safe with IG Index. We place the full balance of all our retail clients' money into segregated bank accounts that cannot be used by us.
The security of these funds is therefore absolutely unaffected by IG Index's financial state. For more information, please see Client Money Protection.
IG Index is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, register number 114059.
A 2011 report by Investment Trends showed that over 60% of all active financial spread bettors in the UK hold an account with us, confirming IG Index as the UK's most popular financial spread betting company.
The survey by Investment Trends – a leading, independent research agency – ranked IG Index highest for overall service.
IG Index is the world's largest and longest-running spread betting company. We have been world leaders in spread betting for over 35 years.
1974
- Investors Gold Index, later to become IG Index, is founded, becoming the world’s first financial spread betting firm.
1982
- IG Index is the first company in the UK to start taking spread bets on the share prices of FT 30 companies.
1995
- The company is the first to start taking spread bets on all publicly traded companies in the UK.
1998
- IG Index is the first company in the UK to launch an online dealing platform for financial spread betting products.
2000
- IG Group is floated for the first time and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
2003
- IG Index adds binary bets to its product offering.
2007
- The award-winning PureDeal dealing platform is unveiled.
2008
- IG Index brings PureDeal to the iPhone. Trailing Stops and DealThru Charts are introduced.
2009
- IG Index starts sourcing prices from Europe's leading MTFs.
2010
- IG Index introduces Custom Bets and Advanced Charts.
2011
- IG Index unveils new Android and BlackBerry apps.
In the year to 31 May 2012, IG Group recorded:
17.3%
13.8%
clients dealing
7%
per share
12.5%
[1] Net trading revenue is trading revenue excluding interest on segregated client funds and is net of introducing broker commissions.
Recent awards won by IG Index include:
Best Spread Betting Service
MoneyAM Online
Finance Awards 2010
Best Spread Betting Provider
FT/Investors Chronicle Awards 2011
Spread Betting Provider of the Year
2009-2011
What Investment magazine Awards 2011
For more information please see our Awards section.