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- Budget 2011 (22 Mar)
- The Importance of China (02 Mar)
- Tighter Spreads and Reliable Dealing (02 Mar)
- Reading into the MPC Minutes (25 Feb)
- Where Next for White Metals? (16 Feb)
- IG Index Named Best Spread Betting Broker (01 Feb)
- New! Share Focus (25 Jan)
- Are Banks on the Road to Recovery? (21 Jan)
- How Will Retail Cope in 2011? (17 Jan)
- How to Use Our Research (07 Jan)
- Free Live and On Demand Seminars (07 Jan)
- New! BlackBerry app (05 Jan)
- Plan Ahead for 2011 (05 Jan)
- The Santa Rally (17 Dec)
- Extensive Shares Analysis (10 Dec)
- Investors Chronicle Award 2010 (02 Dec)
- New PureDeal Quick Tour (26 Nov)
- Shares Awards 2010 (26 Nov)
- Real-time Forex Updates (23 Nov)
Strength and Security
With IG Index you can be sure you are trading with an established provider of financial services and using a trading platform renowned for its reliability.
Although it has been a turbulent period for financial markets, our award-winning PureDeal platform has enabled users to continue trading with security and confidence.
In the week beginning 6 October 2008 for example, we took over 700,000 trades in a period of high volatility, but PureDeal was 100% reliable with absolutely no downtime. With a less advanced platform you could have missed out on a trade.
PureDeal reliability
We realise fast execution and reliability are essential for accurate trading, which is why our PureDeal platform has been specially designed to cope with periods of high demand and still deliver an outstanding service.
Our superior browser-based software provides all the tools necessary for professional trading on a huge range of markets, including market-leading charts with DealThru technology, allowing you to deal directly through the chart.
PureDeal benefits include:
- Ultra-fast execution and one-click dealing
- Price Improvement
- Thousands of shares, plus indices, forex, commodities and more
- Free Reuters news package
- Professional-level charts
- Fully customisable interface
Trade with confidence
With IG Index you can rely on the security, resources, global coverage and service of a multinational organisation with more than 50,000 clients worldwide.
- Founded in 1974, IG Index is the world's largest and longest established spread betting firm.
- IG Index is part of IG Group Holdings plc which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a FTSE 250 company.
- IG Group currently employs over 700 people worldwide.
- As at 31 May 2008, on the latest published balance sheet IG Group had total assets of £871 million, no debt and own cash of £100 million.
While the financial markets and the banking sector are in a state of flux, you will obviously have concerns about where your trading funds are held. We segregate your funds in a designated account, which is ring-fenced from IG Index and covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, to make sure your money is safe.
For more information about our group of companies go to www.iggroup.com.
Updated: 02/03/09
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