Finspreads
Encyclopedia
Finspreads is an online financial spread betting
firm that offers customers access to various instruments on the world’s financial markets through online and mobile trading platforms
. Along with IFX Markets, FX Solutions and City Index Limited, it is a trading name of City Index Group
.
spread betting
in 1999, before the company was acquired by the City Index Group
.
as straightforward as possible for every trader
, whatever their level of experience".
The company also offers an eight week training program, the Finspreads Trading Academy Course to help customers better understand spread betting
.
Spread betting
Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome...
firm that offers customers access to various instruments on the world’s financial markets through online and mobile trading platforms
Electronic trading platform
In finance, an Electronic trading platform is a computer system that can be used to place orders for financial products over a network with a financial intermediary. This includes products such as shares, bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives with a financial intermediary, such as a...
. Along with IFX Markets, FX Solutions and City Index Limited, it is a trading name of City Index Group
City Index Group
City Index Group is a broker providing online financial spread betting, FX, and CFD trading. As well as Britain, it operates in United States, Australia, China, Singapore, Poland and Germany. Today, the group consists of the City Index Limited, Finspreads, FX Solutions and IFX Markets...
.
Background
Finspreads first offered interactive onlineONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
spread betting
Spread betting
Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome...
in 1999, before the company was acquired by the City Index Group
City Index Group
City Index Group is a broker providing online financial spread betting, FX, and CFD trading. As well as Britain, it operates in United States, Australia, China, Singapore, Poland and Germany. Today, the group consists of the City Index Limited, Finspreads, FX Solutions and IFX Markets...
.
Trading platform
Finspreads has stated that its goal is to "make spread bettingSpread betting
Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome...
as straightforward as possible for every trader
Trader (finance)
A trader is someone in finance who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives. A broker who simply fills buy or sell orders is not a trader, as they are merely executing instructions given to them. According to the Wall Street Journal in 2004, a managing...
, whatever their level of experience".
The company also offers an eight week training program, the Finspreads Trading Academy Course to help customers better understand spread betting
Spread betting
Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple "win or lose" outcome, such as fixed-odds betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes and the bet is whether the outcome...
.