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CMC Markets is one of the biggest online spread betting brokers in the UK, and it posted a healthy rise in profits for its first half as work to target wealthier customers paid dividends. But its short-term outlook is more conservative as a regulatory crackdown is expected to hit the industry. In the 6 months […]
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Spreadex, one of the oldest spread betting brokers in the business has won spread betting operator of the year at the EGR Awards 2017. Spreadex fit nicely into EGR’s (who mainly cover gambling companies) coverage because they are the only financial spread betting broker to offer sports spread betting. Which is basically the same as
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CMC Markets one of the leading CFD and spread betting brokers has launched a new product to compliment it’s recent Prime Brokerage FX institutional offering. API will allow institutions to provide their clients with CMC’s multi-asset coverage. The CMC Markets API includes: Over 80 index, commodity and treasury CFDs, plus more than 300 FX pairs
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ETX Capital, has released a new version of their TraderPro Platform, with a few new features to make spread betting and CFD trading more user friendly. Founded in 1965 as Monecor they started offering derivatives to institutional clients in 2002, then focused on providing CFD and spread betting as ETX Capital since 2007. Here are
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JRJ Group Sells ETX to Guru Capital read all about it here. The Times reports that JRJ Group, who bought ETX Capital for £15m in 2009 have hired Royal Bank Of Canada on Strategic options for a sale between £20m and £50m. The CFD broker and spread betting industry is certainly bi-polar. On the one
IG, one of the largest spread betting and CFD brokers in the UK released their 2017 results showing a 38% increase in new clients. With 15% coming from OTC leveraged business. If you’re not over au fait with what “OTC Leveraged” means it’s basically clients trading on margin through products like spread betting and CFD
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Leading spread betting broker Spreadex has a little treat for customers this week. If you are an existing customer you may well have received an email offering a 50% rebate on UK 100 Daily trades this week. Or FTSE 100 trades if you are not hindered by FTSE trade mark issues. The UK 100 most
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Thankfully Spreadex has stopped daily spread bets closing out automatically at the end of the day. Since spread betting began way back when brokers would offer daily spread bets, that expired at the end of the trading day, but in reality most clients would opt to have them roll over each day. This is good
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Spreadex, one of the leading spread betting brokers has improved it’s charting package. It’s been a long time coming as the Spreadex trading platform doesn’t go in for lots of flashing lights, dark brooding backgrounds or fancy dials. Instead they focus on clear and concise information displayed in an easy to digest format. The new charts are
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Spreadex, one of the best spread betting brokers in the UK is one of 78 based in (and around) London to make it onto the FT’s list of fastest 1,000 European companies. Spreadex founded in 1998 was ranked 943 out of 1,000 on the FT’s list published on May 17th 2017 with key stats of: Revenue
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