ETX Capital announced Monday that it has introduced trailing stop orders to its spread betting and CFD offerings.

WorldSpreads has announced the introduction of a range of sectors based on stocks in the FTSE 350 Index on which clients can take a position on.

CMC Markets has issued a press circular stating that CMC Markets Ireland was not one of the four firms inspected and is thus not subject to follow-up compliance issues by the Central Bank of Ireland.

IG Index have launched a new Android trading application which brings IG Index’s web browser platform to Android powered smartphones.

CMC Markets has slashed its spreads in an effort to attract more clients – with spreads now starting from 0.9pt.

Regulators have raised concerns over compliance at some CFD and financial spread betting providers operating in Ireland.

A SCOT has been fined £1 million by the UK’s FSA for stock-market abuse. A former private client stockbroker, Mr Alexander discovered he could influence the price of spread bets in his favour by placing small equities orders in the same FTSE 250 stocks.

Gibraltar-based bookie Victor Chandler International has expanded its financial spread betting operations through a new deal with Cantor Gaming & Wagering, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald Group.

With the company expecting to record a 7% increase in trading revenues to £320m for the year ended May 31st 2011, IG Group Holdings plc said Thursday that it has been unable to secure the sale of its underperforming Extrabet business and will therefore wind down the online sports betting business.

IG Index have announced that their minimum spreads on GBP/USD and EUR/GBP now start from just 1 pip, enabling clients to enjoy even better value from the UK’s biggest spread betting provider.

Peter Cruddas, the founder of CMC Markets Plc, was named by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party as co-treasurer

WorldSpreads has announced some important upcoming updates to its trading platform.