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British online trading company

IG Group Holdings plc

Cannon Span House, IG Group’southward head part in London
Type	Public Limited Company
Traded every bit	LSE: IGG FTSE 250 component
Industry	Fiscal services
Founded	1974
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Key people	Mike McTighe, (Chairman) June Felix, (CEO)
Services	Online Forex trading, CFDs, spread betting, share dealing
Revenue	£863.0 million (2021)[ane]
Operating income	£454.ane million (2021)[1]
Net income	£371.ix one thousand thousand (2021)[one]
Number of employees	two,094 (2021)[1]
Subsidiaries	DailyFX tastytrade Spectrum Markets Raydius BrightPool
Website	iggroup.com tastytrade.com tastyworks.com dailyfx.com raydius.de brightpool-markets.com spectrum-markets.com

IG Group
is an online trading provider with 290,000 agile traders,^[2]
offer admission to spread betting and CFD trading, which let traders to bet on the management of equities, bonds and currencies without owning the underlying assets.^[3]
Established in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler,
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it has a marketplace value of £two.9 billion^[five]
and offers trading in 17,000 investment markets. IG is regulated past the FCA, the U.k.’s fiscal say-so body.^[6]
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Information technology is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.^[8]
The visitor is based in London and employs 1,950 staff.
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History

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Founding and early on years (1974– 2000)

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The visitor was founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler equally a spread betting business concern nether the name
IG Alphabetize
(an abbreviation for

Investors
Thouone-time Index) which allowed people to merchandise gilt prices equally an index instead of buying the concrete commodity. In July 2000, shares in the newly named
IG Group plc
were showtime listed on the London Stock Exchange.^[ten]

Expansion (2001– 2010)

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In July 2002,
IG Grouping
commenced trading in Commonwealth of australia after a modify in the country’s financial services legislation made it possible to offer contracts for difference to Australian residents.^[11]
IG Group took the opportunity to acquire its founder’s shares, and those of certain other long-standing shareholders, in a management buy-out (backed past private equity business firm CVC Capital Partners) which valued the visitor at £143 meg;
IG Group plc’s
listing on the London Stock Exchange was subsequently cancelled on vii November 2003.^[12]

In May 2005, after two years of individual ownership,
IG Group
and CVC Upper-case letter Partners re-floated the visitor on the main list of the London Stock Exchange with a valuation of £393 million.^[12]
In October 2008, IG Group acquired FXOnline Nippon KK, a Japanese retail FX business concern.^[thirteen]

In 2007, it purchased HedgeStreet, a pocket-size US based company that developed an electronic market that allows online retail investors to trade financial derivatives. Information technology renamed this the
North American Derivatives Exchange
or (NADEX) and has been attempting to employ this to develop a product that looks similar its binary option “digital 100s” product just that meets the United states financial regulations and tin can be offered to retail traders. In 2007, IG has also been labeled equally a gambling visitor by some of authoritative media. The Telegraph’s warning report stated that although such spread-betting companies as IG have been regulated past the Britain financial regulator, “no amount of regulation will help you if you get your bets wrong, so in that respect at that place is no doubt it is risky, and y’all should make sure you know what you are doing before y’all get involved”.^[14]
In May 2010, it obtained permission from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to make various technical changes that move in that direction.^[15]
Later in 2010, IG Index, IG Group’due south spread betting business firm, was hitting with a claim for €25 million by three former clients of defunct Scottish trading firm Echelon Wealth Direction for unspecified losses.^[sixteen]

Recent developments (2011–present)

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In June 2011, IG Markets shut down its traditional fixed-odds sports service extrabet, which had an emphasis on in-play betting. The fixed odds sport service was close downward to focus on financial wagers, after failing to find a buyer for the whole unit.^[17]
In September 2014, the visitor started its ain online stockbroking platform offer some iv,500 stocks.^[18]

In January 2015, the Swiss National Bank announced that it would be discontinuing its minimum exchange rate policy. IG customers incurred losses of £18.4 one thousand thousand afterwards it happened. They accused the company of breaching UK regulations by interim out of self-interest and alleged a failure by company to provide the best execution to everyone.^[xix]
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In October 2015, after claims by many of the firm’southward clients,^[21]
IG “accepted a ruling by the UK’southward Financial Ombudsman Service that information technology should compensate customers for money lost during a rapid appreciation of the Swiss franc in January”.^[22]

In September 2016, IG Group acquired DailyFX, a foreign substitution trading news and inquiry portal, from FXCM for $40 million.^[23]
Later, in December, Peter Hetheringon, the CEO of the company, criticised the Fiscal Bear Authority in the UK after information technology appear new measures to overhaul the industry, publicly blaming the regulator for weakness in some aspects of implementation and its lack of understanding of what the proposed changes could bring.^[24]

In December 2016, the FCA questioned whether binary bets “serve a genuine investment demand” and defined them as more than akin to gambling. Bated from most consumers losing money, the FCA’due south other concerns included the addictive nature of binary options betting, and inherent conflicts of interest. “Since 2012 there accept been a reported 2,605 victims who lost a full of £59.4m on binary options scams – an average of nearly £23,000 each”.^[25]
In 2017, investors lost more than than £87,000 a 24-hour interval on binary option scams lonely.^[25]

In January 2017, IG grouping announced their conclusion on withdrawal of the binary options betting product, admitting that the arrival of the regulator to the market would significantly worsen the company’s state of diplomacy. The director of IG corporate diplomacy stated: “I think that product will come nether regulatory pressure level in the future. That does not influence our view – it’s simply a fact.” At the same time, analysts stated that the IG’s binary option withdrawal has been more alike to provocation: “Information technology was a pre-emptive measure to mitigate further regulation”.^[26]

In April 2017, IG Group launched IG Smart Portfolios – a suite of ETF investment portfolios created in partnership with BlackRock, marking the company’s starting time move into online wealth direction.^[27]
In October 2018, IG Grouping appointed June Felix every bit CEO^[28]
and, in February 2019, IG Grouping launched IG Us to enter US market.^[29]

Leadership

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Following his tenure as Chief Financial Officeholder, Tim Hawkins was appointed CEO in October 2006, retiring 9 years later in 2015.
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Following the departure of Tim Howkins, Peter Hetherington became CEO in Oct 2015, having started at the visitor as a graduate trainee in January 1994. He afterward stepped downwards in September 2018.^[31]

In October 2018, IG Grouping appointed June Felix equally CEO.^[32]
Felix served as a non-executive director for three years before joining the board.^[33]
As of October 2020, Felix besides serves on the board at Relx PLC.
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tastytrade

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IG acquired tastytrade in June 2021 for $1bn, a trading platform catering to individual investors. Privately owned tastytrade was co-founded in 2011 by Tom Sosnoff who also founded thinkorswim, a brokerage business firm that was caused by TD Ameritrade for $606million in 2009, and Dough, Inc.^[35]
Subsidiary tastyworks was launched in January 2017 as a brokerage arm of tastytrade.^[36]

Nadex Sale

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In Dec 2021, IG brokered a deal for the sale of North American Derivatives Commutation (Nadex) and a 39% stake in Small Exchange Inc to Foris DAX Markets Inc, which trades as Crypto.com, completing the $216 million auction in March 2022.^[37]
Nadex is a U.S. derivatives exchange regulated past the Article Futures Trading Commission encompassing brusque term binary options.^[38]

ESG Investing

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In 2019, IG partnered with Teach First to train 16 teachers in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). This partnership was extended to create a £two million fund supporting children in disadvantaged areas, specifically afflicted past the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the education system.^[39]
IG Group launched its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy, Brighter Future, in 2020.^[40]

IG’s Brighter Future Fund launched in early 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the education and development of young people irrespective of race, gender or socioeconomic groundwork.^[41]

Operations

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In 2012, IG Group consolidated its business in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland under one brand, IG. IG Group is now, therefore, the sole trading proper name of the operating companies:^[42]

• IG Index offers spread betting on financial markets every bit well a binary options under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.^[43]
• IG Markets offers CFDs on a similar range of fiscal markets. IG Markets Express is authorised by the Financial Carry Authority in the UK.^[44]

Controversies

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Platform crashes

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In 2021, FinanceFeeds and Financial Magnates reported that IG Group’south arrangement, supposedly accepted to low volatility periods, faced frequent outages at the time of higher-than-usual trade volumes.^[45]
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Such crashes left clients unable to control the positions, leading to loss of funds. FinanceFeeds likewise mentioned that during the January 2021 outage, IG Group provided no customer support (upwardly to non answering the phone calls) but immediately reacted to request for commentary to protect its public prototype and deny the bug raised by the clients.^[47]

2021 curt clasp

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In February 2021, IG Grouping and 34 other brokers and hedge funds were targeted past an antitrust class activeness lawsuit for allegedly conspiring against non-professional investors when GameStop brusk clasp took identify. Co-ordinate to the plaintiff, the defendants hatched an uncompetitive scheme to limit the trading of certain securities afterwards the failure of their highly speculative short-selling strategies, thus violating land antitrust laws.^[48]

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During its history, IG Group signed some notable sponsorship deals:

• The company sponsored Getafe CF football club in the 2010-2011 Spanish flavor.^[49]
• In November 2010, IG Markets signed a sponsorship bargain to support Team Heaven professional person cycling team in 2011.^[50]
• In December 2010, IG Markets announced sponsorship of two stages of Santos Tour Down Under cycling race in 2011.^[51]
• In October 2013, IG signed a sponsorship deal with Harlequin rugby team for the next three years.^[52]
  In September 2014, the bargain was updated to brand IG ane of three major sponsors for the team.^[53]
• In May 2015, IG Group became a partner of Melbourne Football Order for 2015 and 2016.^[54]

See too

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• FTSE 250 Alphabetize
• Forex

References

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