IG Markets is the first company to offer trading with CFDs (contracts for difference) and is part of IG Group Holdings plc, listed on the FTSE 250 group based in London. IG Markets offers CFD trading service with a range of financial markets including stocks, indices, forex, commodities and options, binary, addressing an audience of brokers, fund managers, finance companies and private investors. IG Index, the first company to IG Group, founded in 1974, founded by Stuart Wheeler as a pioneer of the spread of financial trading that is still leading in the UK. Wheeler founded IG Index, initially called Investors Gold Index, in order to offer British citizens the opportunity to trade with the price of gold like an index in a period in which to speculate on the price of gold was illegal in the UK . In 1982 the company began to offer financial spread trading price of the FT30, or the top 30 companies in Britain.

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Half Year Report - 2011
Annual results - July 2011
Management Statement - September 2011