About Us

FirstSpreads is a trading name of London Capital Group, one of the UK's leading financial services companies specialising in online trading services. FirstSpreads offers spread betting for retail, professional and institutional customers.

Some facts about London Capital Group:

• AIM Stock Market Listed: Market Cap £51m (August 2010)
• Total UK spread betting accounts: 57,890 (June 2010)
• Average trades per day: 31,894 (June 2010)
• Annual revenue: £27.6m (December 2009)
• Profit before tax: £5.8m (December 2009)
• Strong cash position of £10.0m (December 2009)

We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and hold all client money in a segregated account in accordance with FCA’s client money provisions.

Why open an account

With a FirstSpreads account customers can place spread bets on over 2,000 global financial instruments including equities, indices, currencies and commodities. The most popular spread betting products in the UK are the FTSE and Dow Jones indices, major FX pairs (e.g. Euro/$) and commodities such as Oil (Brent Crude) and Gold.

As a FirstSpreads client you will gain the edge over many other spread betting traders by having LIVE UK level 2 SETS and SEAQ screens provided to you free of charge (worth £220 per annum) – click here for more details.

Serious investors are already harnessing the advantages that Level 2 market data provides and now you can too by becoming an active FirstSpreads client. That's because Level 2 market data is the perfect way to benefit from enhanced levels of in-depth market knowledge.

We offer tight spreads and low margin requirements and a high level of personal service through our friendly customer support team. We aim to make online trading as fast and efficient as it can be for our customers.