“It’s been an amazing story,” IG CEO June Yee Felix, who is based in London, tells The Edge Singapore in a recent interview. “IG took the innovation of wholesale markets and brought it to retail, [which] in some ways democratised financial markets. Its vision was to allow sophisticated, self-directed people to gain access to financial markets,” says Felix, who was in town to meet clients.
SINGAPORE (Feb 28): IG Group, the UK-listed over-the-counter (OTC) leveraged derivatives provider, is well known for offering retail investors access to its famed contract for differences (CFDs) trading platform.
But there was a time when these derivative products were traditionally available only to institutional and accredited investors.
