CMC Markets has launched a dedicated Android spread betting application to compliment its existing iPhone and iPad trading platforms.

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

The iPhone and mobile growth explosion hasn’t gone unnoticed by the spread betting industry. Figures cited by the Evening Standard note that those taking part in financial spread betting have done so using a mobile application 70% of the time..

Capital Spreads have announced the launch of a trading application for the Android smartphone as well as a number of other improvements to their core trading platform including a number of margin reductions and spread cuts.

The powers at City Index have announced that they have expanded their ‘City Trading’ mobile trading platform to include Blackberry, Android, Windows and Java handsets.