Why work with IG?

A premium service for Investment & Asset Managers who trade on a discretionary basis.

L2 Dealer, our downloadable DMA platform, provides powerful, flexible DMA access for advanced traders. Trade CFDs with no dealer intervention, full market depth and access to dark liquidity pools. Use shareholdings as margin to CFD positions. We also offer Forex Direct where you can trade currencies at the market price, with liquidity from the major banks.

Our profile manager tool allows you to manage client portfolios and trade across multiple client accounts using the weighting facility to evenly place your trades. Manage your client accounts with our CRM tool ‘Client Manager’ which provides real-time back office functionality and the ability to export reports or have them sent via SFTP. 

We offer partnership packages for brokers who are registered with an appropriate financial regulator.

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 block-trading option. Our CRM tool, client manager provides real-time back office functionality.

Trade via an API

Our web API offers you an easy way to get market data, historical prices and execute trades against any of your IG accounts. It can be used with Excel (VBA), .NET, Java and any programming language that supports HTTP.

It is also designed to get you coding as quickly as possible, with a sample app, fully featured online documentation and interactive developer tools to assist you. See our IG Labs site for further details.

We also provide a FIX API

Our API supports pricing, trading and streaming account balance figures and is connected securely to IG’s systems using SSL over the web.

You can trade the full range of IG’s products over the FIX API, with your executions filled using our market-leading Smart Order Router. Our SOR connects to multiple trading venues and dark pools, ensuring you get the best execution.

Features

The API supports all major order types supported by our DMA trading platform, and lets you use trading algorithms and models to execute trades for you.

We offer both DMA and OTC solutions via FIX:

• FIX DMA: Trade directly into the order books of global stock exchanges, utilising our low latency exchange and broker links, with no dealing desk. Forex traders also get direct access to a large FX liquidity pool from several Tier 1 banks
• FIX OTC: Trade automatically on IG’s Over The Counter products using a real time feed of our own prices

To ensure that our API is right for you, to request our rules of engagement or to find out more please call one of our account executives.

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

Benefits of this model include:

• 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
• Full online service
• No need to install equipment, purchase servers or invest in maintenance
• Fully embedded technology options such as iframe or API

Our technology, your brand

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.

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

If you have an existing client base and are interested in a white label solution, contact our institutional sales team. 

We offer a complete trading solution for corporate and institutional clients looking for a mini prime broker solution, built around powerful technology, a huge range of markets and dedicated support. 

L2 Dealer, our downloadable DMA platform, provides powerful, flexible DMA access for advanced traders. L2 Auto Trade is an add-in on L2 designed for use with Microsoft Office Excel to help automate your trading activity.

L2 Auto Trade can be used to send DMA orders to L2 to facilitate automated trading without the need for a full API connection. It can be used to trade on your own account and any other IG Markets sub accounts attached to your login sending up to 200 orders per minute.

We are also connected to Bloomberg EMSX, if you have a terminal you can now connect to IG and send orders direct from Bloomberg.

Who trades with us?

• Small-medium sized hedge funds 
• Corporations and proprietary trading houses 
• Brokers and retail aggregators
• Individual corporate trading vehicles
• Family offices

Don’t fall into one of these categories? We may still be able to help. Corporate clients can download the application here.