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Ayondo Markets (formerly known as Gekko Global Markets), is one of the latest entrants to the spread betting market.

LCG is part of the London Capital Group (LCG). London Capital Group was originally setup in the mid-1990s as a proprietary trading business…

ETX Capital (used to be known as TradIndex) is operated by Monecor (London) Ltd and has been operating since 2002…

SpreadCo has offices in London and Singapore is one of the newest providers of spread betting but is headed by Pabari, a former Finance Director at CMC Markets Plc

Binary is an innovative, binary options trading platform that lets you speculate your views and trade the markets.

IG Index is one of the UK’s biggest and oldest established spread betting company.

CMC Markets are one of the bigger spread betting providers and have been around since 1996.

Spreadex was established in 1999 joining the 3 other main incumbents at the time.

Financial Spreads, previously part of IFX Group PLC became a division of CityIndex when they acquired them in mid-2006

InterTrader is a division of PartyGaming, the biggest online gaming company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

City Index was founded in 1983 and, until Oct 2014, was owned by Icap chief executive Michael Spencer, who sold it to US retail broking giant Gain Capital for $118 million.

FXCM started offering forex spread betting in 2009 as an addition to its forex trading platform.