Spreadex has just announced the launch of its new mobile sports betting platform allowing their clients to place sports fixed odds sports spread bets on their iPhone or other smartphones

A former hedge fund trader from South London who made use of inside information to assist him in making than £500,000 from a friend’s financial spread betting scam has been found guilty but will not serve time.

Andrew Feldman, the young professional poker pro from Bushey who took Simon Nissim (a rabbi) to court was ordered to pay more than £150,000 by the High Court today after failing to repay debts to his rabbi and former friend.

If you are looking to trade the markets around the World Cup then there are a variety of sectors that look promising. Naturally the pub chains, the bookmakers and retailers who sell England merchandise…

Professional poker player Andrew Feldman was in the tabloids this weekend concerning a strange court case involving financial spread betting and a rabbi.

ODL Group which operates spread betting division ODL Markets and is one of the UK’s largest retail foreign exchange players is to be taken over by rival FXCM in a deal…

Geoffrey Conway-Henderson lost £5.8m spread betting on AIM energy stocks with City Index, the spread betting company owned by his close friend and former business colleague Michael Spencer, who is also the founder of ICAP.

Scarcely a day has passed that IG Index have announced commission bid-offer spread cuts across their main index markets that City Index and Finspreads immediately followed…

WorldSpreads Group plc has announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Ladbrokes plc (‘Ladbrokes’) to provide its financial spread betting service…

Early 2009, the FSA had introduced new regulations as to when and how spread betting providers should use segregated accounts to look after client monies…

The Irish regulator has reminded stock brokers in Ireland and the UK that the shorting ban on Irish bank stocks hasn’t been lifted.

ProSpreads the specialist spread betting company of choice for professional day traders and scalpers (read no newbies!) is cutting margin requirements.

From 21 September, IG Index has announced that they will be cutting their deposits on a range of FTSE 100 and major global shares, with many starting at just 5%.

Former England star Matthew Le Tissier has admitted his role in an attempted betting coup while playing for Southampton 14 years ago.

Spread betting firm WorldSpreads has reported pre-tax profits of €4.56m for the year ending March 2009, up from a restated figure of €2.28m the previous year.