Spread betting firm IG Group enjoyed a record month in August as punters flocked to take advantage of huge swings in stock markets and currencies... more
Bankers receive a pleasant surprise when they opened their copies of the Treasury Select Committee's findings on Sir John Vickers' interim report from his Independent Banking Commission... more
Spread betting house IG Group is nursing a £4 million hit to its profits from the collapse of the Keydata fund management business - its share of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme levy... more
The public-sector cuts could create some strange bedfellows. Eric Pickles' Communities and Local Government Department, which occupies the triangular glass Eland House near Victoria Station, is having to lose roughly 700 posts from its current 2200 and will need a sub-tenant... more
A legendary New York investor, who turned his back on hedge-fund management two years ago, emerges as a significant shareholder in the London spread-betting firm IG Group... more
Market round-up: Drug disappointment puts GlaxoSmithKline on its sick bed, as the pharmaceutical giant is said to be eyeing an Asian acquisition... more
World Cup analysis: The stakes are high for high street giants such as Ladbrokes, William Hill and Coral, which have spent heavily on advertising and have structural issues such as dwindling revenues taken over their counters... more
More than half the spread betting in Britain is done through IG Index. Chief executive Tim Howkins tells Simon English why the firm has such appeal... more
Spread betting is a City success story - an example of what London's financial district does best. But the tie-up between financial services provider and betting outfit IG could end in tears... more
City spreadbetting firm IG Group said only a few of its Japanese clients will be hit by plans to limit the amount of gearing that can be offered to currency speculators in the country ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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