ig.com
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Truth score
Business details
- Years in business
- 26 years
- Sells
- Digital services
- Sells to
- The public
- Kind of seller
- Sells its own goods or services
- Licensed trade
- Financial services or credit
- Domain age
- 28 years
- Email address
- helpdesk.uk
@ig.com - Phone number
- Not found
- Contact page
- ig.com/
uk/ contact-us - Website
- ig.com
- Social media
- Not found
Do the sources agree?
- Address
- 88 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7DA, England Companies House agrees Its website differs OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Sources give different addresses · Its website has EC2V 7QR
- Company name
- IG MARKETS LIMITED Its website agrees Companies House agrees
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.
Summary
Is ig.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 88 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, medium confidence.
ig.com is run by Ig Markets Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 26 years ago. Its website address was registered 28 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar). No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 1,342 reviews on Reviews.io average only 2.3 stars out of 5. Its 12 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.6 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles or a phone number.
Positives
- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 26 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 28 years ago.
- It is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar).
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Be cautious
- A large number of independent reviews (1,342 on Reviews.io), but it falls short with only 2.3 stars out of 5.
- A low number of independent reviews (12 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.6 stars out of 5.
Not found
- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.
Our technical team has been informed.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
What they offer
Start investing commission-free with an ISA, GIA or SIPP and earn 4.00% AER (variable) on uninvested cash. Trade spread bets and CFDs with IG. T&Cs apply.
- What makes them different
- “The only charge is a 0.7% FX fee on currency conversions.”
- Customer stories
- How IG compares
How to check if ig.com is legit
To check if ig.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about ig.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 26 years ago
- Its registered office at Companies House is 88 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7DA, England
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
- Where the company is based
- UK
- Why we believe that
- it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England and Wales, its postcode is a UK postcode
- Which countries the company serves
- UK
- Why we believe that
- £ prices on its homepage
- Companies House registration
- Registered as IG MARKETS LIMITED
- VAT number
- Not found
- Company found in official company register
- Yes
- Registered company name
- IG MARKETS LIMITED
- Company status
- active
- Company age
- 26 years
- Registered address
- 88 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7DA, England
- Accounts overdue
- No
- Confirmation statement overdue
- No
- Insolvency history
- No
- Registered office in dispute
- No
- Filing history consistent
- Yes
- Registered to do
- 66120 Security and commodity contracts dealing activities
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Accounts filed
- Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
- Secured loans (charges)
- 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 28 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 28 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
- Company contact email is available
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- Not found
- Contact page found
- Yes
- Sources agreeing on postcode
- 1
- Hosting company
- IG Index Ltd.
- In their own words
- “About Us - IG UK = 7: --> = 7: --> = 7: --> Skip to content Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 70% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.”
- Who you're buying from
- “IG is a trading name of IG Trading and Investments Ltd (a company registered in England and Wales under number 11628764), IG Markets Ltd (a company registered in England and Wales under number 04008957) and IG Index Ltd (a company registered in England and Wales under number 01190902).”
Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool
Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.
All allowed
- Google Search
- Allowed by defaultGooglebot
- Bing
- Allowed by defaultBingbot
All allowed
- OpenAI
- Allowed by defaultGPTBot
- Anthropic
- Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
- Google AI
- Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
- Apple AI
- Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
- Common Crawl
- Allowed by defaultCCBot
- Meta
- Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
- ByteDance (TikTok)
- Allowed by defaultBytespider
All allowed
- ChatGPT search
- Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT
- Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
- Claude search
- Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
- Claude
- Allowed by defaultClaude-User
- Perplexity
- Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints35,598 reviews across 3 platforms, rated 2.3 to 4.6 out of 5
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
| SmartCustomer | 2.6 out of 5 stars | 12 |
| Reviews.io | 2.3 out of 5 stars | 1,342 |
| Total | 4.5 out of 5 stars | 35,598 |
App StoreIts app, IG: Trading. Investing. Crypto, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 34,244 ratings, counted in the reviews total.
- App
- IG: Trading. Investing. Crypto
- App Store rating
- 4.6 out of 5
- App Store ratings
- 34,244
Visitor trafficIt is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 10,000 sites
Share of people looking up ig.com, by country, over the last 2 days.
- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen
- 1France52.7%
- 2United States6.5%
- 3United Kingdom4.0%
- 4Brazil2.7%
- 5Netherlands2.6%
- 6South Africa2.3%
- 7Russia2.1%
- 8Singapore2.1%
- 9Australia2.0%
- 10Poland1.7%
Top 10 of 100 countries.
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years ago
- Website archive history
- 29 years
Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- May send your data to other countries.
- “The information on this site isn’t directed at residents of the United States, Belgium or any particular country outside the UK and isn’t intended for distribution to, or use by, any person in any country or jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.”
- May check your details with credit or fraud-prevention agencies.
- “We may also make decisions about you through automated profiling or automated credit checks which may affect your ability to use our services.”
- May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
- “We may also make decisions about you through automated profiling or automated credit checks which may affect your ability to use our services.”
- Says you can ask it to delete your data.
- “You can ask us to delete or remove your personal information in certain circumstances such as where we no longer need it or you withdraw your consent (where applicable) provided that we have no legal obligation to retain that data.”
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked
- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- none
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- Sectigo Limited
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 7 Apr 2027
- Nameservers
- dns1.p09.nsone.net
dns2.p09.nsone.net
dns3.p09.nsone.net
dns4.p09.nsone.net
ns01.marketdatasystems.net
ns02.marketdatasystems.net
ns03.marketdatasystems.net
ns04.marketdatasystems.net - Address
- 193.30.41.215
Proof of ownership
What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.
DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
- What we check
- A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
- When we check
- On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
- Points
- 0 of 3 added
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
- When we check
- When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
- When we check
- On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
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