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IG Group to spend $1 billion to acquire tastytrade 21 January 2021
Source: IG Group The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (“IG” and, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) is pleased to announce the proposed acquisition of tastytrade, Inc. (“tastytrade”), a high growth US online brokerage and trading education platform with a leading position in US listed derivatives, primarily options and futures, and over 105,000 active accounts1 (the “Acquisition”).
▪ Landmark transaction that expands and diversifies IG’s growth drivers through entry into the world’s largest listed derivatives market. With an estimated 1.5 million retail traders, the US options and futures market is larger than the rest-of-world CFD/FX and European Turbo markets combined2.