As a client with IG Markets, you can be assured that your funds are completely safe.
When you open an account with us, we will hold your money in a separate regulated trust account at top tier Australian banks, in accordance with the governing legislation and our Customer Agreement. In addition, as further protection for you (and exceeding our legal obligations), we pay the full balance of your funds into client bank accounts and treat the total amount as trust money.
By full balance, we mean the figure shown on your account statement as 'total surplus', which includes any unrealised profits and the deposit you are required to have in your account in order to support your open positions. The trust money is treated as belonging to our clients and cannot be used by us, so you have security that your money is absolutely unaffected by whatever may happen to us.
Strength and Security
IG Markets is part of IG Group Holdings plc, a FTSE 250 company. This affords you the security, resources, global coverage and service of a multinational organisation with more than 100,000 clients worldwide.
Founded in Australia in 2002, IG Markets is Australia’s original CFD provider; the company has been in business since 1974 and has offices in Melbourne, London, Tokyo, Milan, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Paris, Madrid, Luxembourg, Singapore and a representative office in Beijing.
At a glance
- IG Markets is one of the world's largest and longest established providers of leveraged retail derivative products
- IG Group employs over 800 staff around the world
- The group has over 100,000 trading clients and processes over 4 million transactions a month, over 99% of which are online
- Currently valued around A$2.5 billion which ranks the group just outside the FTSE100
- Total assets of almost A$2 billion, and own cash of over A$100 million, as at 30 November 2009
IG Markets was voted the Best CFD Provider for 2010 by industry experts and Outstanding Value CFD Provider for 2009 - 5 Star Ratings by CANSTAR CANNEX.
For more information about IG Markets and IG Group, visit our About Us page.