IGM Partners Brochure

Partnership with IG Markets

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With IG Markets you and your clients can rely on the security, resources, global coverage and service of a leading multinational organisation with more than 120,000 clients worldwide in 123 countries.

We pay over £45 million to partners annually. Could you increase your revenue by working with us?

Market capitalisation of almost £2bn

FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange

IG Group currently employs over 950 people worldwide

As of July 2010, on the latest published balance sheet IG Group had trading revenue of £298.6m, profit before tax of £157.6m, total equity of £474.6m and no debt

IG Markets is a world leading CFD provider with offices in London, Dusseldorf, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Lisbon, Chicago, Melbourne, Singapore and Tokyo

IG Markets is part of IG Group Holdings plc, the global number one

in the provision of financial spread betting and CFDs. We have an

outstanding reputation for trading technology, competitive pricing

and reliability.

World-leading CFD Service

World-leading CFD Service 3

Ways to Partner With IG Markets 4

Technology 8

Trade With Confidence 12

Our Markets 14

Contact Us 15

40% growth for nine consecutive years

Over 120,000 clients worldwide

More than 1 million transactions

per month

Operations in 123 countries

KEY FACTS

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Ways to Partner With IG Markets

Whether you are authorised to trade directly for your own clients or

simply want to introduce your network to us, we could work with you to

make your business more profitable, without straining your resources.

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Many of our most successful partners are Basic Introducers who earn a steady revenue stream simply by recommending our site to their clients.

We also offer partnerships based on introducing clients to our financial spread betting brand, IG Index.

Basic introducerThe simplest form of partnership with IG Markets: open up a steady stream of revenue by directing clients to our site.

As a Basic Introducer, you use your own contacts or marketing efforts to bring our service to a wider group of traders, and we reward you as they trade. You simply direct clients to our site, and if they open an account with us and trade, we enter into a revenue-sharing arrangement with you.

Add to your revenue without adding to your costs

Simply introduce and walk away

Minimal legal requirements and paperwork

Earn as your clients trade

Unlimited potential for profit

Over £45 million generated by partners

in 2009-10

Partners business accounts for 16%

of trading revenue

Partner programmes in Europe, Asia

Pacific, South Africa and the Americas

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Ways to Partner With IG Markets

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Our technology, your brandOur white label solution consists of a fully-branded stand-alone website and dealing platform. Your branding is also extended to all forms and agreements, such as the Risk Disclosure Notice, Customer Agreement and Order Execution Policy. Clients are directed to this site from the partner’s website so that they can open an account online and access our platform.

We can also tailor the product range and the default layout of the trading platform to the partner’s requirements. Partners can also specify the live prices clients see on the website and in the Popular Markets watchlist of the dealing platform.

Alternatively, if you prefer not to direct your clients to a standalone site, we can work with you to embed the relevant content and agreements into your existing website using the iFrame solution, to deliver an execution-only service.

It is worth noting that the full white label package requires a certain level of commitment and resourcing, especially if you are considering the use of iFrames which involve a level of technical expertise.

White labellingAs a white label partner, you can offer your clients the same award–winning technology and broad product range enjoyed by thousands of active IG Markets clients worldwide under your own brand.

Complete technology solution developed, maintained and hosted by us

Online demo and live account-opening facility

All the tools you need to monitor your clients’ trading

Fully online service

No need to install equipment, purchase servers or invest in maintenance

Fully embedded technology options such as iFrame or API

Regulated brokerBrokers who are already registered with an appropriate financial regulator can choose to take an active approach by trading on behalf of their clients or offer an execution only service to their client base.

We have the legal and IT framework to help regulated brokers with Power of Attorney offer a competitive service to their clients.

For this partnership model, which is primarily suited to brokers wishing to provide an advisory service to their clients, you must have the appropriate regulation and legal authority to act on behalf of clients.

Included in our package is a range of resources exclusive to partners managing accounts on their clients’ behalf. For example, you can use our full DMA platform L2 Dealer which offers multi-account management, including a profile trading option. Our CRM tool, AccountView provides real-time back office functionality.

CFD traderOffer your clients IG Markets’ award–winning technology and broad product range through our generically-branded site, CFD Trader.

Rapid deployment - the site is already live, minimising setup time

Complete technology solution developed, maintained and hosted by us

Neutrally-branded online demo and live account-opening facility

No need to install equipment, purchase servers or invest in maintenance

CFD Trader clients can also choose to receive a neutrally-branded version of IG Markets’ educational programme. Our modular ‘CFD Trading Guide’ will be emailed to clients over the first six weeks following account opening.


Technology

Our advanced trading platforms and range of tools help end clients

get the most out of trading. From retail clients to professional dealers,

our trading resources provide key support for traders of all levels.

No requotes / price improvement

Quick Charts for easy data access and

Advanced Charts for experienced users

24 hour dealing

(Sunday 21:00 to Friday 22:00 GMT)

Free access to FuturesTechs analysis,

Trading Central commentaries and

Investors Intelligence

Full range of orders

One-click dealing

Standalone deal tickets

KEY FACTS

PureDealIntuitive and browser-based, our online trading platform, PureDeal, is used by over 120,000 clients. We currently execute over 200,000 trades per day on PureDeal.

Over 90% of our transactions are conducted online via PureDeal. The platform processes millions of trades each month, with minimal downtime and at peak times has handled over 5000 trades a minute without issues.

PureDeal is available in a variety of different languages, and we offer a choice of branding options to suit your needs.

With streaming live prices on thousands of markets, our online platform gives you one-click trading on all our products. Everything your clients need is provided in a single package.

User-friendly browser-based interface

Automated dealing and pricing on thousands of markets

A full set of account management tools

Live news indicators from Reuters

Outstanding charting package

Professional research

Stops and limits to open new positions, including oco orders


Technology (continued)

FIX tradingThe FIX Protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions.

FIX is a well established industry standard which means that it contributes to better performance, with well-tested, advanced solutions.

Industry standard – FIX is a well understood and mature technology that will be familiar to your in-house development team

Developed APIs – IG Markets’ Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are already developed, so implementation time is reduced

Extensive product range – A wide range of our OTC and DMA products can be offered (currently excluding Binaries and Bungees)

Mobile tradingWhen your clients open an account with us, they automatically gain free access to our mobile trading software. This enables clients to benefit from a full trading experience while on the move.

Clients access an unbranded mobile trading platform through their device using their existing login details and password.

Using our Mobile trading solutions clients can:

Trade wherever they are, 24 hours a day

Open and close positions with the single click of a button

Monitor aspects of their portfolio including orders to open, the running profit or loss on individual trades, and watchlists

Our Mobile technology is available on a wide range of devices, including BlackBerry, Palm-Pre and iPhone.

PureDMAPureDMA combines the speed and simplicity of PureDeal with the increased control of DMA trading.

Orders are placed in the market immediately, and PureDMA automatically ‘works’ your order, providing ‘partial fills’ if the full volume is unavailable. Key benefits include:

Trade inside the market spread by dealing straight into the order book

Enter stock auctions

View market depth and liquidity with transparent Level 2 pricing

L2 DealerOur full DMA platform, L2 Dealer, is designed to meet the needs of professional traders who demand Direct Market Access.

Originally developed for our own dealers and professional clients, L2 encompasses all the main functions of our PureDeal platform as well as a range of specialist features developed exclusively for the DMA trader:

Profile Trader – place block orders that can be split into individual client accounts

Excel compatiblity – drag and drop lists of stocks straight from Excel into (and out of ) your watchlists

Time and sales data – see a full chronology of recent trading data for a stock, indicating trade quantity, price and type

Monitor entire indices – our ‘Trigger pages’ give an overview of all the current prices of an index’s components, updating in real-time

Track your orders – use the Trade Book to monitor your orders as they are being worked in the market

L2 can also be used to enter stock auctions and to view market depth and liquidity with transparent Level 2 pricing. Users can select the range of products they wish to look at, monitor market depth, and manage up to ten different portfolios of chosen instruments, plus all working and filled orders.

Approx 9,000 unique mobile logons

per day

Approx 280,000 deals through mobile

devices per month

KEY FACTS Prices sourced directly from principal

exchanges, Chi-X, BATS, Turquoise and

Dark Pools

Increased possibility of filling larger orders

Orders executed to best available price

KEY FACTS


Trade With Confidence

Partner tools Account View – A comprehensive, web-based back-office application that allows you to see real-time account information, view current and historic statement information and generate management reports. You can also export this information to Microsoft Excel

Tracking Links – We provide links which ensure that when your clients apply for an account, they are automatically allocated to you

Online Account Opening – Applications can be fully branded. If there are any problems with opening an account, our Account Opening team will work with you to complete the process

Demo Accounts – Our demo accounts allow clients to get used to navigating the platform and place dummy trades before opening a full account and trading on the real market. The online application process is fast, easy and you can use it to generate sales leads

Customisation – Choose exactly which IG Markets products you would like to offer your clients, as well as which instruments are shown on the website’s Live Prices and in the Popular Markets watchlist

Branded Statements – We can incorporate your company logo into client online or paper statements

Branded Account Opening – We offer branded PDF application forms and agreements and a partner-branded link to apply for an account online

Trading supportWe offer a range of back-office support tools to help you and your clients get the most out of trading with IG Markets.

Our support tools include educational packages, trading tools and charts for the end client as well as back office and customisation tools to help you streamline your processes.

Whether or not a specific tool will be available to you depends on the scope of the partnership model you choose.

Tools for your clients Client Support – a complete range of end-client support tools which you can mix and match to meet the requirements of your customer base

Education package – a neutrally-branded version of our free, six-week educational programme, including reduced trading minimums and commissions throughout the course

Deal Thru Charts – Clients can deal, place orders and amend stops and limits through IG Markets’ real-time charting package

PureDeal Tools – a complete range of trading tools including Autochartist, Trading Central and Research

Mobile Dealing - Offer your clients our neutrally branded mobile platform which enables them to trade from their PDA, mobile phone, BlackBerry or iPhone

Phone Trading and Support – Your clients will benefit from the same 24-hour phone trading and dealing support as IG’s own clients

We provide the best resources available to CFD traders,

delivering an unparalleled customer service alongside

innovative trading technology.


Our Markets

Share CFDsIG Markets offers more than 7,000 leading UK, US, European and world shares with low commissions and margin requirements from just 5%.

Transparent pricing on all OTC and DMA shares

Full range of orders

Multi-venue pricingIn addition to using traditional exchanges we also source prices for leading UK and European equities from Chi-X, BATS and Turquoise: Europe’s three leading Multilateral Trading Facilities. Our technology works behind-the-scenes to find the best price available (regardless of whether it’s on an MTF or on a standard exchange).

Tiered MarginingOur Tiered Margining system allows us to offer clients the lowest margins on our complete range of shares. It also provides protection in the form of higher margins for the largest positions, from which it may be more difficult to trade out quickly.

ChargesWe do not levy administration charges such as margin call fees, tax statement fees, duplicate statement fees or account administration fees.

ForexOur dealing spreads start from just 1 pip. We offer a huge range of major, exotic and minor currencies for forex trading with flexible pricing that enables clients to benefit from tight market spreads.

Margin requirement just 1%

Same competitive spreads on both full and mini contracts

For high-volume trades, partners can trade directly into one of the world’s deepest FX liquidity pools and access extremely competitive inter-bank spreads using L2 dealer together with Currenex’s market leading technology

Stock indicesWe make it easy for your clients to trade a huge range of the world’s stock indices, including the FTSE 100, Wall St, Germany 30, Japan 225 and many more.

Over 30 stock indices

Trade 24 hours a day – we quote prices for 14 leading indices even when the underlying markets are closed

Cash-based or futures-based CFDs

Non base currency denominated CFDs, making it easier to avoid currency risk when trading on overseas markets

Our minimum contract sizes are usually smaller than the minimum transaction size in the equivalent futures market

Other marketsWe also offer:

Bonds – our contracts are off-exchange, so clients can choose to deal in fractions of contracts

Interest rates – variety of long- and short-term interest rates

ETFS – Over 200 funds with the majority listed on the world’s leading exchanges. These funds give clients the opportunity to take positions on previously unavailable markets

Options – Daily and longer-term options on forex, stock indices and shares

Binaries – Yes/no propositions on stock indices, spot forex and commodities with a wide range of expiries

CommoditiesWe offer a broad range of commodity CFDs, including:

Spot and forward prices on Gold and Silver

Other precious and base metals

US Light Crude, Brent Crude, Natural Gas and Emissions

Soft commodities including Cocoa, Coffee, Wheat, Corn, Orange Juice, Cattle and Pork Bellies

Mini versions of all our commodities contracts at 20% and 50% of the main contract size, with the same low dealing spreads

If you would like to become an IG Markets

Partner, get in touch with us today and

speak to a member of our sales team.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7573 0219

Email: [email protected]

CONTACT US

As a leading global CFD provider we offer an exceptional range of

markets: global stock indices, over 7,000 Share CFDs, more than

60 forex pairs, plus commodities, binaries, options and more.

IG Markets Partners

Cannon Bridge House25 Dowgate HillLondonEC4R 2YA

Tel: 020 7896 0011 Fax: 020 7896 0010

www.igmarketspartners.com Printed November 2010

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