FXCM, Gain Capital and IG Group shares set all-time or multi-year highs, while the overall stock market stalls in Q2. Q2 was not very kind to Gold prices (down 23%) or equity markets (basically flat), or even bond prices, but it was very kind to publicly traded Forex brokers. But Q2 brought with it increased…
Read moreIG Group spent several millions of dollars buying the IG.com domain name. IG Group's new website IG.com has now been officially launched (at www.ig.com, of course). We exclusively reported just several weeks ago that as part of its rebranding as just 'IG', IG Group had spent several million dollars buying the IG.com domain name, which…
Read moreRecord retail forex volumes have caught the eye of stock market investors – and they are snapping up FX broker shares. LeapRate Exclusive..... Our recent reporting on the record retail forex trading volumes being achieved by FX brokers around the world has indeed been noticed by the Wall Street and London City crowds. Over the first…
Read moreIG sees strong performance globally, but especially out of Japan FX trading. IG Group, the UK's leading financial spreadbetting company, announced that in its Q4-2013 (for the quarter ended May 31, 2013 -- IG has a May year-end) revenues and activity were up nicely in double-digit percent across virtually all of its major regions. In…
Read moreFor the past year IG Group has been rebranding its businesses under the generic 'IG' name. LeapRate has learned that leading UK online brokerage and spreadbetting firm IG Group has spent millions of dollars acquiring the IG.com domain name. IG Group management apparently plan to consolidate all of IG's various brands and businesses, such as…
Read moreCoinLab takes Mt. Gox to Court for $75 million as the race to lead the Bitcoin revolution heats up. In February a joint venture between leading Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, and CoinLab -- which bills itself as the first U.S. venture-backed Bitcoin company -- was announced. The plan was for CoinLab to take over Mt. Gox’s Bitcoin operations…
Read moreLeverage limited to 4x. Plus500 joins IG as the only 'real' online brokers offering leveraged Bitcoin trading. After we reported last week that IG Group became the first online broker to offer binary options trading on Bitcoin, now comes word that Plus500, a medium-sized UK-based Forex broker, is becoming the first Forex broker to offer…
Read moreInitially only binary bets on Bitcoin will be allowed. Will more Binary Options brokerages soon follow? IG Group, the largest UK spreadbetting company, is now offering Bitcoin binary options tradiing to their clients with an expiration of 31 May -- those who go long will "win" a specified amount if Bitcoins end up higher on…
Read moreRevenue and volumes up in every region worldwide. IG Group, the UK's leading financial spreadbetting company, announced that in its Q3-2013 (for the quarter ended February 28, 2013 -- IG has a May year-end) revenues and activity were up nicely in double-digit percent across all of its major regions -- its home market of the…
Read moreIG Group hires Declan Bourke, former Head of UK at CMC Markets. LeapRate has learned that UK spreadbetting giant IG Group has opened an office in Dublin, Ireland. After IG's competitor CMC Markets closed down their Ireland office last year, IG Group took the opportunity to hire CMC's Ireland country manager Declan Bourke to open…
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