Category: Investments and funds. Country: United Kingdom (UK).
Welcome to IG Group. All the latest financial information for IG Group Holdings plc, plus full details of our history and onward strategy. Please use the links below to visit any of our businesses. Corporate Profile. IG Group Holdings plc offers speculative investment products to a retail and professional client base, through a number of well-known brands. The group’s principal businesses give clients the ability to trade on financial markets. Our longest established business is financial spread betting, where we are the world’s leading provider (based on turnover), servicing a retail client base, primarily in the UK. Our rapidly growing Contracts For Difference and foreign exchange business services retail clients and market professionals around the world from offices located in the UK, Australia, Singapore and Germany. The group also offers spread betting on sports, entertainment and political events and binary betting on both financial and sports markets. More than 90% of the group’s client transactions are executed electronically. 2006-7 headlines, Revenue up 36% at £122.0 million, EBITDA up 34% at £70.4 million, Strong EBITDA margin of 57.7%, Diluted earnings per share up 33% at 14.52p, Final dividend 6.5p per share; total dividend 8.5p per share, EBITDA margin improvement from 54.5% in H1 to 60.3% in H2, Successful launch of TradeSense in UK and recent launch in Australia, Launch of PureDeal dealing platform, Current trading is strong, The group’s business has grown rapidly since the late 1990s, with revenues having grown at a compound annual rate of roughly 40% over the past nine years. We have also developed IG Group into a significant multinational operation. Clients: IG Group is a fast-growing, profitable and cash-generative provider of speculative investment and leisure products to a worldwide client base. Our client base is dominated by retail clients, particularly in our spread betting businesses and in binary betting. The client base for CFDs and trading on foreign exchange also includes market professionals and some corporate entities. During the year ended 31 May 2006, 32,924 clients traded with IG Group, a 26% increase on the year before, and we currently conduct over 500,000 client transactions a month. We have also opened 21,891 new accounts worldwide in 2005-6, a 17% rise year-on-year. Two of the group’s principal operating subsidiaries, IG Index and IG Markets, are regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK and by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in Australia. IG Index and binarybet.com both hold UK bookmakers’ permits. IG Group currently has offices in London, Dusseldorf, Melbourne and Singapore, plus a dedicated Italian desk, and employs approximately 400 people, around 350 of whom are based in London. Careers: There are frequent new opportunities at IG Group. Our businesses have enjoyed impressive growth over recent years, and we often require new people at our offices in London...
Address: Friars House 157-168 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8EZ Phone: 020 7896 0011 Fax: 020 7896 0010
