{"id":29740,"date":"2025-06-02T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:01:53","slug":"uk-listed-investments-platform-ig-offers-spot-crypto-trading-to-retail-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29740","title":{"rendered":"UK-Listed Investments Platform IG Offers Spot Crypto Trading to Retail Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Investment platform IG (IGG) said it has begun offering crypto trading to retail investors, becoming the first publicly-listed firm in the U.K. to do so.<\/p>\n

This marks IG’s first offering of crypto exposure through spot trading of bitcoin BTC, ether ETH and a range of smaller tokens. <\/p>\n

The company’s crypto service has previously been confined to derivatives products in the form contracts for difference (CFD). <\/p>\n

IG has teamed up with U.S.-based crypto-focused fintech firm Uphold to build crypto trading into its existing platforms that customers currently use for dealing shares, FX, commodities and derivatives. <\/p>\n

This may demonstrate the increasing integration between traditional finance (TradFi) and digital assets that investors and traders now expect to see.<\/p>\n

The London-based firm’s move also coincides with the ongoing development of the U.K.’s plans to establish a regulatory regime for the crypto industry. The government published two consultation papers in April<\/a> on draft legislation for activities such as crypto trading and stablecoin issuance.<\/p>\n

IG shares are around 0.25% higher on the day<\/a> at the time of writing, compared to the FTSE 100 index which is unchanged.<\/p>\n

Read More: UK’s First Centrally Cleared FCA-Regulated Crypto Derivatives Trading Venue GFO-X Debuts<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investment platform IG (IGG) said it has begun offering crypto trading to retail investors, becoming the first publicly-listed firm in the U.K. to do so. This marks IG’s first offering of crypto exposure through spot trading of bitcoin BTC, ether ETH and a range of smaller tokens. The company’s crypto service has previously been confined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}