As a client with IG Markets, you can be assured that your funds are safely held in a separate regulated trust account at a top-tier Australian bank, in accordance with the governing legislation and our Customer Agreement.
By way of further protection (and in excess of our contractual and regulatory obligations), we use our own money, not yours, to meet our trading obligations with our hedging brokers. We also segregate and hold in trust your net running profits.
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 120,000 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 900 staff around the world
- The group has over 120,000 trading clients and processes around 5 million transactions a month, of which over 99% are online
- Currently valued over A$3 billion which ranks the group just outside the FTSE100
- Total assets of almost A$2 billion, and own cash of over A$224 million, as at 31 May 2010
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.