spread betting
Cantor Index Delivers Web-Quality Wireless Trading With Mobile Solution
White Paper Established in May 2000, financial spread betting organisation Cantor Index is part of Cantor Fitzgerald International, one of the largest bond trading companies in the world. Catering to the needs of the more discerning investors, Cantor Index... [16 Apr 2007]
Traders move online for share deals
News Nachbaur said: "Spread betting and CFDs are proving very attractive to anyone interested in investment because of their apparent simplicity and the prospects of high gains. The research says CFDs account for about 20 per cent of the London Stock... [29 Aug 2006]
Virus hijacks open source servers
News Cyberciminals used the threat of DoS attacks to blackmail several high-profile online betting companies last year. Malware monitoring company Prevx has been watching the worm spread on the internet since the first sighting on Tuesday. [28 Jan 2005]
CIO Jury: Ageism is not a problem in IT
News Hugo Smith, IT director at online spread betting firm Sporting Index, agreed ageism is a problem but said it is not widespread. Over a third of participants in silicon.com's annual Skills Survey claim to have been victims of ageism but this week's... [17 May 2004]
KPNQwest customers abandon ship
News One such customer to move over to an ISP is IG Index, a UK spread betting service. The online bookie discovered KPNQwest had gone bankrupt on 31 May, coinciding with the start of the World Cup and the company's busiest betting period. [26 Jun 2002]
Another big name crashes out of the World Cup
News In its favour Sportingindex.com offers high-risk, high-return, spread betting, while most other online bookies offer fixed odds betting. As such its faithful users will most probably wait for its return rather than change their betting habits... [19 Jun 2002]
BTopenworld bets on gambling
News BTopenworld is to add online betting to its content offering through a partnership with portal ukbetting.com. BTopenworld will offer sports betting, lotteries, bingo and casino games on a new portal site. [17 Apr 2002]
Judgement day looms for Legacy, Napster and Orange
News Spread-betting agency predicts Orange shares will end the day around the 680p mark, thereby giving investors a 'healthy, if unspectacular' return. Legacy, which hopes to turn the attraction into a high-tech business park, is struggling to find... [12 Feb 2001]
LIFFE hit by the latest in a string of technical failures
News Spread betting company Cantor Index said LIFFE should install a duplicate system to protect against failures. The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) was forced to delay market opening as a result of the failure... [14 Nov 2000]
