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With IG Markets 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 week in the financial markets, our award-winning PureDeal platform has enabled users to continue trading with security and confidence.

In the week beginning 6 October 2008 we took over 700,000 trades in a period of high volatility, but PureDeal was 100% reliable with absolutely no downtime. With a less reliable 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 
  • Over 7500 shares, plus indices, forex, commodities and more 
  • Free Reuters news package 
  • Free professional-level charts 
  • Fully customisable interface

Trade with confidence

With IG Markets you can rely on the security, resources, global coverage and service of a multinational organisation with more than 64,000 clients worldwide.

  • Founded in Australia in 2002, IG Markets is Australia’s original CFD provider; the company has been in business since 1974 and is the world’s largest and longest established provider of leveraged retail derivative products.
  • IG Markets 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 800 people worldwide.
  • As at 31 May 2008, on the latest published balance sheet IG Group had total assets of AU$2.3 billion, no debt and own cash of AU$260 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. All client funds are held in designated trust accounts at top tier Australian banks, and are dealt with only as trust money. You have the benefit of all the protection offered by law in relation to trust money. Specifically we do not pass client funds through to brokers unless agreed in writing.

For more information about our group of companies go to www.iggroup.com.

Updated: 07/11/08