BrokerSafari Evidence Score
This is an evidence-based editorial calculation, not a guarantee of safety, an account test or an investment recommendation. It uses only the structured research recorded for this broker, never another website’s rating.
| BrokerSafari Evidence Score | 8.2 / 10 — Strong |
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| Evidence confidence | medium |
| Evidence coverage | 78.5% |
| Assessed quality score | 8.2 / 10 |
| Evidence-gap penalty | 0.0 |
| Score before caps | 8.2 / 10 |
| Calculated score after caps | 8.2 / 10 |
| Regulation & Legal Entity | Weight 30%; coverage 66.7% (2/3 inputs). Quality 8.3 / 10; 24.9 / 30 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
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| Safety & Client Protection | Weight 20%; coverage 75% (3/4 inputs). Quality 8.0 / 10; 16 / 20 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
| Transparency | Weight 15%; coverage 100% (4/4 inputs). Quality 8.6 / 10; 12.9 / 15 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
| Fees & Trading Costs | Weight 10%; coverage 100% (4/4 inputs). Quality 8.6 / 10; 8.6 / 10 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
| Deposits & Withdrawals | Weight 10%; coverage 60% (3/5 inputs). Quality 7.5 / 10; 7.5 / 10 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
| Trading Platform & Products | Weight 10%; coverage 100% (4/4 inputs). Quality 7.9 / 10; 7.9 / 10 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
| Track Record & Independent Evidence | Weight 5%; coverage 50% (1/2 inputs). Quality 8.0 / 10; 4 / 5 weighted points before normalization and penalties. |
Quality uses only assessable inputs. Entirely unassessed categories are excluded and remaining category weights are normalized; missing evidence is not zero quality. Coverage separately measures assessed input weight out of 100%. A gap penalty of 0.0, 0.3, 0.7 or 1.2 is applied before regulatory caps. Source strength affects confidence, not a direct multiplication of the quality score.
Rating cap
None.
Why this score?
Verified strengths
- Regulation & Legal Entity — Account-serving legal entity: partially verified. Partial verification only; unresolved scope remains an evidence gap.
- Regulation & Legal Entity — Relevant financial regulation: partially verified. Only the documented relevant entity/permission is verified, not every group licence or account.
- Trading Platform & Products — Platform identity and clarity: partially verified. Partial verification only; unresolved scope remains an evidence gap.
Provider-disclosed evidence
- Safety & Client Protection — Client-money segregation: disclosed.
- Safety & Client Protection — Negative-balance protection: partial. Conditional protection is disclosed; account-specific independent verification is not established.
- Safety & Client Protection — Investor-protection coverage: partial. Partial coverage is disclosed; independent account eligibility is not established.
- Transparency — Company transparency: high.
- Transparency — Legal-document transparency: high.
- Transparency — Regulatory-disclosure transparency: high.
- Transparency — Contact transparency: medium.
- Fees & Trading Costs — Spread transparency: high.
- Fees & Trading Costs — Commission transparency: high.
- Fees & Trading Costs — Overnight-fee transparency: high.
- Fees & Trading Costs — Live trading-cost testing/corroboration: provider disclosed only.
- Deposits & Withdrawals — Deposit and withdrawal fee transparency: medium.
- Deposits & Withdrawals — Payment-method transparency: medium.
- Deposits & Withdrawals — Withdrawal-term transparency: medium.
- Trading Platform & Products — Mobile availability: disclosed.
- Trading Platform & Products — Trading-product transparency: medium.
- Trading Platform & Products — Platform testing: provider disclosed only.
Supplementary independent evidence
- Track Record & Independent Evidence — Independent-source documentation: medium.
Evidence gaps
- Regulation & Legal Entity — Regulatory warnings and enforcement: unassessed.
- Safety & Client Protection — Security controls: unassessed.
- Deposits & Withdrawals — Independent withdrawal testing/corroboration: unassessed.
- Deposits & Withdrawals — Verified withdrawal findings: unassessed.
- Track Record & Independent Evidence — Operating history: unassessed.
- A relevant entity/regulator relationship is verified; other group licences and account-specific coverage remain unresolved.
Verified concerns
No verified adverse finding is recorded in these inputs. This is not a clean bill of health or continuous monitoring.
Broker Overview
IG is a trading and investment brand used by several companies. Its UK prime legal information identifies IG Markets Ltd, IG Index Ltd and IG Trading and Investments Ltd, and assigns different activities to those entities. The FCA register provides a regulator-hosted record for IG Markets Limited, FRN 195355. The IG brand alone does not establish which company provides a customer’s account.
IG offers different product types, including CFDs, spread betting in eligible regions, and share dealing or investment services. These are not interchangeable: they can have different legal terms, charges, risk profiles and protections. The product’s provider and governing documents should be confirmed before using details from a particular fee page.
The sources for this review are public FCA and IG pages. We did not open an account, test an order, check actual spreads or compare fills, contact support, or submit a withdrawal. IG’s marketing statements about platform quality or range are reported as provider descriptions, not independent test results.
Source: IG UK — legal information and entity responsibilities · Last Checked:
Source: IG — About Us · Last Checked:
Regulation
The FCA register lists IG Markets Limited under reference 195355 and warns readers to check the full record because permission is limited to specified activities and product types. That is the verified regulator relationship recorded here. It does not mean every IG service or account is offered by this company.
IG’s UK legal page names additional FCA-authorised entities, including IG Index Ltd (FRN 114059) and IG Trading and Investments Ltd (FRN 944492), and associates products with particular companies. These are provider disclosures in the page cited below; they should be cross-checked on the live register for the activity and customer type in question.
We did not complete a full warning/enforcement search for all IG companies and jurisdictions. The Evidence Score leaves warning status unknown; this is not a finding of no action. Clone listings on a regulator register, where present, refer to impersonators and should not be confused with the authorized firm.
Source: FCA — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
Source: IG — UK legal entities and product scope · Last Checked:
Legal Entities
IG’s own legal information maps product categories to separate companies. We independently match IG Markets Limited to the FCA record here; the other UK company identifiers are transcribed from IG’s disclosure and should be verified directly before reliance.
| IG Markets Limited | United Kingdom. Matched to FCA FRN 195355; provider associates it with CFD services in its UK legal information. |
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| IG Index Ltd | United Kingdom. Named in IG’s legal information with FRN 114059; separate firm record should be checked for the relevant service. |
| IG Trading and Investments Ltd | United Kingdom. Named by IG with FRN 944492 for investment-related services; do not treat as the CFD provider. |
Source: IG — legal entity and product information · Last Checked:
Source: FCA — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
License Information
IG Markets Limited
Authority: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (United Kingdom). Licence identifier: FRN 195355.
Evidence status: The FCA register lists IG Markets Limited under reference 195355 and states that the firm is authorised for specified activities and products. The full record should be checked for the service being considered.
Source: FCA Financial Services Register — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
The FCA permission record for IG Markets Limited should be read alongside the product-specific customer agreement. IG Index and IG Trading and Investments are separate firms with separate references. An account or product provided by one entity does not inherit another company’s license or compensation treatment.
Company Information
| Brand | IG |
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| UK FCA record in this review | IG Markets Limited, FRN 195355; company number 04008957. |
| Other UK companies disclosed | IG Index Ltd and IG Trading and Investments Ltd. |
| Parent group | IG Group Holdings plc; group relationship is not a substitute for identifying the contracting entity. |
| Group-wide audited financial review | Not performed for this broker-page research task. |
Source: FCA — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
Source: IG — company and legal information · Last Checked:
Trading Platforms
IG’s official materials describe its web trading platform, mobile applications and additional tools or integrations. Exact platform options depend on country, product and entity. The cited platform source is an IG Switzerland page, so its disclosures should not be read as a definitive UK catalogue.
A platform comparison should include the functions that matter to a user: available markets, order types, risk controls, charting, alerts and account statements. We have not tested the software, mobile experience, uptime, execution or any third-party integration. Provider claims about awards or platform reliability are not independently assessed here.
Source: IG Switzerland — trading platforms · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — product and entity mapping · Last Checked:
Trading Products
IG’s legal and product pages describe CFDs, spread betting in eligible UK/Ireland contexts, and investment or share-dealing services. IG’s international site also describes listed options and futures in some markets. This review does not imply that each product is available in each country or through the same legal company.
A CFD is a leveraged derivative rather than direct ownership of an underlying share. Spread bets are a separate UK product. Investment accounts can involve different custody, dealing and tax arrangements. Read the product disclosure and the account terms that match the service, and do not use one product’s protection statement for another.
Source: IG — UK product and company details · Last Checked:
Source: IG International — product overview · Last Checked:
Trading Conditions
| CFD account | IG Markets Ltd is identified by IG as provider of UK CFD accounts; spread, commission and overnight funding may apply. |
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| Spread betting | IG Index Ltd is identified for UK spread betting; available only in eligible jurisdictions. |
| Investment / share dealing | IG Trading and Investments Ltd is identified for UK investment services; costs differ from CFDs. |
| Leverage and margin | Product, instrument, customer classification and country determine applicable limits. |
| Guaranteed stops | IG says available on certain CFD trades and subject to a fee if triggered; check platform terms. |
| Execution quality | No live execution or slippage test was conducted. |
When comparing a spread-bet and CFD account, consider that similar-looking instruments can have different contract specifications, charges and tax treatment. Position size, overnight funding, currency conversion and stop conditions can change the total cost and risk. The public information is not a personalized estimate.
Source: IG — UK legal product scope · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — charges and costs · Last Checked:
Fees
IG’s UK charges page lists costs that can include spread, share dealing commission, overnight funding, guaranteed-stop premiums and market-specific fees. The page describes overnight funding for leveraged positions and states that futures and forwards use a different pricing structure. Cost schedules can change and should be checked in the platform or current terms.
IG’s UK page states an administration charge for certain overnight funding calculations, with different percentages for FX and other asset classes. Do not apply those values to every entity, product or account. Share commission, market-data fees and the costs of holding a position can differ from the headline spread.
This review did not record live quotes or calculate a sample trade. “From” prices and examples are not a guarantee of the amount a customer will pay. To compare fairly, use the same instrument, notional exposure, direction, account currency and overnight holding period.
Source: IG UK — costs and charges · Last Checked:
Deposit & Withdrawal
IG provides account funding and withdrawal instructions through its UK support pages and customer portal. Payment methods, minimums, limits, processing windows and verification requirements may depend on country and account type. We do not state a single global method list or processing guarantee.
Before funding, confirm whether deposits must come from a payment source in the account holder’s name, whether the method supports withdrawals, and how returned funds are handled. Check any bank or card-provider fees and conversion costs. A broker’s advertised processing window does not account for every intermediary or verification review.
We did not deposit or request a withdrawal. No independent claim is made about withdrawal speed, success rate or customer experience.
Source: IG UK — deposits and withdrawals · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — customer terms · Last Checked:
Research Summary
Primary-source material includes the FCA firm entry, IG’s UK legal entity information, UK charges page and platform/company pages. These sources clarify the difference between IG Markets Limited, IG Index Ltd and IG Trading and Investments Ltd, and provide a basis for describing the public fee structure.
This review does not measure spreads, trading performance, platform uptime, customer service or withdrawals. It also does not provide a complete assessment of every IG jurisdiction or product. Unknown fields remain gaps; they are not treated as evidence of good or poor operational outcomes.
The Evidence Score is calculated automatically from the evidence inputs recorded in this page’s data. No third-party rating is adopted as a BrokerSafari score, and no target score is manually assigned.
Source: FCA — primary firm record · Last Checked:
Source: IG — provider-published charges · Last Checked:
Safety / Regulation Analysis
The FCA record is relevant to IG Markets Limited and its permitted activities. IG’s own legal information assigns different UK services to other entities. A customer should use the name in the agreement to find the corresponding register entry and check the product-specific permissions.
IG’s UK materials describe segregated client money, negative-balance protection for eligible retail CFD/spread-betting accounts, and compensation-scheme differences by entity. These protections are conditional and are not the same as protection against trading losses. Professional clients may have fewer safeguards; verify current eligibility and limits in the product agreement.
A full enforcement and warning review of every IG company was not completed; the warning input is unknown. FCA clone warnings, if shown on the register, concern impersonation and are not evidence of wrongdoing by the authorized firm unless the record explicitly says otherwise.
Leveraged CFDs and spread bets can lead to substantial losses. This research is educational, not individualized advice or a recommendation to open an account.
Source: FCA — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
Source: IG — client and entity information · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — international entities and protection differences · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — negative-balance protection · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — deposits and withdrawals · Last Checked:
What We Could Verify
We located the FCA record for IG Markets Limited (FRN 195355). IG’s legal information identifies other UK companies and associates them with distinct services. The public charges page explains several cost categories for UK products.
We did not determine what entity would serve a specific reader, nor did we verify every UK group record against the live register. The product mapping above is attributed to IG, with the FCA record separately identified.
Information Still Unclear
- Which IG company and exact product would be offered to a particular reader.
- Current all-in fees for a future instrument, order size and holding period.
- Live execution, platform performance, service response and withdrawal outcomes.
- A complete group-wide review of regulatory warnings and actions.
Evidence Reviewed
Sources were reviewed on 20 October 2026. The date is a snapshot, not ongoing surveillance. Region-specific pages are labeled where applicable.
Source: FCA — IG Markets Limited · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — legal information · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — charges · Last Checked:
Source: IG — platform information · Last Checked:
Source: IG UK — funding and withdrawals · Last Checked:
How to Continue Your Research
FAQ
The FCA register identifies IG Markets Limited under FRN 195355. IG’s UK legal information also names IG Index Ltd and IG Trading and Investments Ltd for different services. Verify the company and permission that match your own account and product.