Facebook’s upcoming IPO is causing some excitement in IG Index and Spreadex’s grey market trading after the spread betting providers started a market in the stock.

IG Index has cut deposit rates across 59 markets, including leading indices, commodities, treasuries and interest rates.

Having experienced a 300% rise in mobile spread trading over the past year, IG Index has launched its latest addition to its suite of mobile dealing applications with a new app for the Apple iPad.

IG Index has announced a series of spread cuts on a number of its interest rates and bonds markets.

IG Index has followed Spreadex in announcing that it has experienced its busiest ever month in terms of client transactions. Persistent global market turbulence has led to unprecedented levels of volatility

IG Index is now offering clients the ability to take a position on sovereign debt issued by the Republic of Italy

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

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.

IG Index has launched a new print adverts campaign dubbed as ‘Event Mapping through media agency DDB UK

IG Index has announced that it will be launching Daily Funded Bets as a substitute to the Daily Cash Bets it currently offers. The new rolling system is a much easier way of doing things and you can realise your profits or losses when you close the bet yourself rather than realising profits/losses on a daily basis.

IG Index is now offering spread traders the ability to trade directly on the USA non-farm payroll numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics each month.

IG Index announced that it has significantly reduced the initial outlay needed to spread bet on their ten major FX pairs.

Shares in spread betting firm IG Group took a battering earlier this week, as regulatory concerns in its Japanese division saw it rack up a loss in the first half of the year.

IG Group released a pre-close trading statement today where it stated that it was expecting higher first-half revenues from its IG Index and IG Markets divisions and has continued to win market share amid the ongoing economic climate,