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IG Securities Japan Restores Trading After Incorrect Order Fills

  • The company plans to contact affected clients if further action is required.
  • Interactive Brokers and XTB previously reported technical issues affecting client access and CFD position management.
Thursday, 29/10/2026 | 20:32 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

IG CEO Buys Shares Twice Within a Week After Revenue Outlook Cut; CFO Also Purchases

  • The company's CEO and CFO bought a combined 80K shares worth approximately £756K according to regulatory filings.
  • The broker’s shares fell as much as 27% on 2 October after a cut to its 2026 revenue growth outlook.
Tuesday, 27/10/2026 | 14:07 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Brokers

IG Wants to Be Your Broker and Your Bookie

  • The company applied for a UK gambling license to run sports and politics prediction markets from early 2027.
  • Moreover, Freetrade, bought for £160 million, saw quarterly trading revenue fall to £2.2 million from £6.7 million.
Thursday, 22/10/2026 | 07:50 GMT by Damian Chmiel
FinTech

IG Group Alumni Raise $1.2 Million for AI Search Startup

  • The startup tracks whether brands appear in AI-generated answers, how they are presented and which external sources influence those responses.
  • It already works with Pepperstone and other financial companies as brokers begin assessing AI search as a potential customer-discovery channel.
Tuesday, 13/10/2026 | 19:50 GMT by Tanya Chepkova
Retail FX

IG Chief Questions What Kalshi and Polymarket Volume Records Are Worth

  • Breon Corcoran said notional figures are hard to tie to economic value, since a $1 parlay can show thousands.
  • Underdog, which IG is buying for up to $1.3 billion, booked $105 million of net revenue last quarter.
Monday, 12/10/2026 | 06:34 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

After the IG Selloff, Brokers Found Many Ways to Say ‘Business as Usual’

  • IG's October 2 trading update shaved a quarter off its share price, causing CMC Markets and Plus500 shares to fall by as much as 9% and 14%, respectively.
  • The sell-off was deemed reactionary by analysts, with one noting that “part of the discount could unwind” if IG posts improved numbers.
  • Despite rivals assuaging their shareholders, soaring ad costs and Revolut's 68M-user retail grip loom large as threats.
Wednesday, 07/10/2026 | 13:10 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Retail FX

IG Group Tech Chiefs Exit as Brokers Hunt for AI Talent Intesifies

  • David Perry (Group CTO) and Qaiser Mazhar (UK CTO) departed after only a year, having focused on modernising IG’s legacy architecture into an AI-enabled infrastructure.
  • As the industry accelerates its AI efforts, the pool of available AI talent will inevitably shrink, potentially opening the door to talent from other sectors.
Monday, 05/10/2026 | 09:14 GMT by Adonis Adoni
Retail FX

IG's OTC Retention Slips, Pushing Q3 Revenue Expectation at 14% Lower

  • The London-listed broker expects Q3 2026 revenue of about £240 million as OTC revenue retention fell to roughly 70% from an 80% average.
  • Organic first trades rose over 25% and active customers around 17%. Underdog's Q3 net revenue more than doubled to about $105 million ahead of Q4, which made up over a third of its 2025 revenue.
Friday, 02/10/2026 | 06:30 GMT by Arnab Shome
Analysis

Five Things to Know About IG's New All-in-One App

  • It is the renamed IG Invest and, for now, holds investing and crypto accounts but not spread bets or CFDs.
  • The main trading platform folds in within weeks, with pensions, a web version and demo accounts to follow.
Friday, 25/09/2026 | 06:00 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Brokers

Report: IG Prepares Hundreds of Layoffs in Consumer Business Restructure

  • Redundancy talks have begun in the UK, with discussions in 10 other jurisdictions expected during September.
  • IG is merging its UK, European, Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern consumer divisions into a single unit called IG Consumer.
Wednesday, 09/09/2026 | 17:41 GMT by Tanya Chepkova
Executive Moves

IG's Karman Wong Joins Trade Nation as Commercial Director, Emerging Markets

  • Wong spent more than 13 years at IG Group, most recently as Head of Emerging Markets APAC, focused on the company's mainland China business.
  • The hire adds a fourth senior leader with an IG background to Trade Nation's management team.
Tuesday, 01/09/2026 | 20:10 GMT by Tanya Chepkova
Brokers

IG Buys Premier League Airtime Alongside bet365 in First Season without Betting Shirts

  • A three-season Sky Media deal puts a trading platform in the same co-sponsor group as the bookmaker clubs dropped from their shirts.
  • IG lifted advertising spend 51% to GBP 75.4 million in the first half and says that share of revenue will keep climbing.
Wednesday, 26/08/2026 | 08:05 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Executives

IG and tastytrade Digital Assets Executive Moves On After Seven Years

  • Laurence Willows spent more than three years leading US digital assets business development.
  • Last year, tastytrade added Bitcoin and XRP through infrastructure provider Zero Hash.
Tuesday, 25/08/2026 | 16:06 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

IG Clients Report Login Failures Across Platforms Before US Market Open

  • Outage reports suggested IG's login systems were affected while its main website remained available.
  • Other brokers, including Interactive Brokers, XTB and Robinhood, also faced platform access disruptions recently.
Monday, 24/08/2026 | 15:30 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Retail FX

Weekly Recap: IG Bets $1.3B on Prediction Markets; Squared Financial's Offshore Operations Stall

  • LMAX is weighing a sale or Nasdaq IPO at a valuation of up to $5 billion.
  • iFOREX grew client onboarding by 19% despite currency headwinds while pursuing UAE expansion.
Saturday, 01/08/2026 | 07:00 GMT by Tareq Sikder
FinTech

Inside the Prediction Markets: Brokers Double Down as States Challenge the CFTC

  • Novig became the first prediction market platform to sponsor an individual MLB franchise this week, extending team-level deals beyond the hockey and combat-sports partnerships.
  • The announcement landed alongside IG Group's $1.3 billion acquisition of Underdog and a letter from 44 state attorneys general asking the CFTC to withdraw its sports-contract rule.
Friday, 31/07/2026 | 19:29 GMT by Tanya Chepkova
Retail FX

IG Group Might Pay Over $2 Billion for Its Prediction Markets Deal, and It's Only a “Funnel”

  • The broker wants to “create a coherent customer funnel” from prediction markets to mainstream financial markets.
  • While IG has 1.4 million customers globally, Underdog has more than 11 million registered accounts, with over 5 million depositing customers.
Friday, 31/07/2026 | 08:58 GMT by Arnab Shome
Retail FX

More Than Jersey: What IG Group’s Offshore Move Really Means

  • IG Group is no longer only a UK business with overseas operations, argues Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta: it's "a global financial institution whose historical roots happen to be in Britain."
  • AI, cloud infrastructure and tokenised markets scale across borders from their earliest stages, and Dasgupta says corporate structures built for domestic institutions increasingly sit uneasily beside them.
Monday, 13/07/2026 | 12:00 GMT by Bhaskar Dasgupta
Executives

IG Markets South Africa CEO Joins Investec Following Office Closure

  • Aphindile AB Bokleni worked at IG for 11 years and previously served as Chief Operating Officer.
  • Earlier this year, the firm exited its South African operations, where it employed about 90 people.
Thursday, 09/07/2026 | 15:44 GMT by Tareq Sikder
Brokers

IG Group Proposes Jersey Holding Company as Half-Year Revenue Rises 18%

  • The FTSE 100 broker wants a new parent company in the tax haven while keeping its London listing, UK tax residence and staff in place.
  • The proposal lands alongside a trading update showing first-half revenue of about £643 million and a management reshuffle.
Wednesday, 08/07/2026 | 06:28 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Executives

IG Employee No. 122 Jody Dunn to Leave COO Role, Ending 24-Year Tenure

  • During her tenure, IG evolved into a FTSE 100 company.
  • The group earlier appointed Qu Zhao as Head of Japan following the departure of CEO Tomoharu Furuichi,
Wednesday, 01/07/2026 | 13:18 GMT by Jared Kirui
Brokers

IG Drops Commission on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana to Undercut UK Crypto Rivals

  • The FTSE 100 broker now charges only a 0.07% exchange fee on its three most-traded tokens, while the rest of its crypto lineup stays at 1.49%.
  • IG's crypto unit still sits outside the UK's main consumer protection schemes.
Monday, 01/06/2026 | 08:16 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

CFD Brokers Confront Phishing Surge as IG Japan Makes 2FA Compulsory

  • The broker earlier reported data handling problems after finding unauthorized internal access to client information inside the group.
  • It also stopped new vanilla options trades for retail clients
Thursday, 28/05/2026 | 20:56 GMT by Jared Kirui
Retail FX

IG Australia Launches MCP Server, Opens Its Trading Platform to ChatGPT

  • The brokerage giant will also open access to its MCP server on Claude “soon”.
  • It, however, keeps the access “read-only”, meaning trade execution remains off-limits to AI assistants.
Thursday, 28/05/2026 | 08:02 GMT by Arnab Shome
Retail FX

IG Europe Moves to Expand EU Crypto Offering with MiCA Licensed Bitpanda

  • Last year, IG Group received a cryptoasset licence from the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
  • IG Europe is supervised by BaFin; parent IG Group is listed on London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100.
Thursday, 21/05/2026 | 16:21 GMT by Tareq Sikder
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