Stockbrokers are muscling in on the financial spread betting market, in a move that could entice mainstream investors into this risky arena.

Global Trader has set up a branch in Thailand with the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but its expectations are modest for the moment.

Tweet The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will have to pay the full legal costs for two people it tried to fine for betting on a stock market flotation. In May, Paul Davidson and Ashley Tatham won an appeal at the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal. It overturned an earlier finding of the FSA that the [...]

Tweet Global Trader, the UK-listed online spread betting company, may be put up for sale after receiving several approaches from potential buyers. The company has hired independent investment bank Fenchurch Advisory Partners, who are expected to distribute an information memorandum within the next few days. Global Trader offers spread trading and contracts for difference services [...]

Tweet LONDON (AFX) – IG Group Holdings PLC, owner of financial spread betting website IG Index said that both its financial and sports businesses have continued to perform strongly in the first four months of the financial year. ‘Both our financial and sports businesses have enjoyed revenues and levels of account opening substantially higher than [...]