Financial Services
IG Group is an online trading and investing company providing retail and professional customers with access to financial markets. Its businesses span leveraged trading, stock investing and a growing range of US and digital-market products.
Contracts for difference, spread betting, options, stockbroking, investment accounts, futures and other trading products, supported by proprietary trading platforms and risk-management technology.
The UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, the United States and other international markets, with an increasing share of revenue generated outside the UK.
Client numbers, trading activity, market volatility, assets held on investment platforms, product expansion, US growth, acquisitions and successful cross-selling across trading and investing services.
Low market volatility, regulatory restrictions on leveraged products, technology outages, cyber risk, competition, market and hedging losses, acquisition integration and changing retail-trading behaviour.
30 July 2026: first-half revenue rose 18% to £642.8m and active customers increased sharply. IG also agreed to acquire US prediction-markets business Underdog and continued a strategic restructuring intended to broaden its international growth platform.
Pays interim and final dividends. The 2026 interim dividend is 14.46p per share, with a record date of 14 August and payment due on 17 September. Shareholder returns are also supported by share buybacks.
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