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Extrabet.com is part of the IG group of companies. The group was founded in
1974 and now employs over 800 staff around the globe. IG Group's head office is
in London. Other group offices are in Chicago, Melbourne, Singapore, Dusseldorf,
Paris and Madrid
IG Group launched its unique fixed-odds site extrabet.com in March 2006 as a
sister site to its spread-betting offering. The platform was revolutionary,
valuing bets in-play so that clients could take their winnings early, or cut a
loss, during live events.
In March 2009,
extrabet.com relaunched as the first betting platform in the world to offer
sports spread betting, sports and financial fixed-odds, sports and financial
binary betting and a casino all under a single account.
FSA and Gambling Commission
extrabet.com is a joint offering from Extrabet Limited and Extrabet
Financial Limited. All sports bets and our casino are offered by Extrabet
Limited, and our financial bets are offered by Extrabet Financial Limited.
For sports spread betting Extrabet Limited is regulated by the Financial
Services Authority, under number 491696. In respect of fixed odds, binary
betting and the casino Extrabet Limited is licensed by the
Gambling Commission under number
066-002931-R-103650-004. For financial fixed odds and binary bets Extrabet
Financial Limited is licensed by the Gambling Commission under number
000-018777-R-300995001.
The IG Group
In May 2005, IG Group Holdings plc was floated on the main list of the London
Stock Exchange. Since then it has been promoted to become a member of the FTSE
250.
As well as
extrabet.com, the group includes IG Index, which offers financial spread
betting and IG Markets which offers CFDs and foreign exchange trading.
IG Group companies have over 72,000 clients worldwide making over 1 million
transactions a month, over 90% of them online.
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