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IG: BMA licence 54814

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Confirmed on the register
Issuing authority
The Bermuda Monetary Authority
Jurisdiction
Bermuda
Last checked
Oct 22, 2026

This is Wikilix's record of a licence issued by The Bermuda Monetary Authority. It sets out what the register says, what we checked, and what the authority's own rules protect.

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The Bermuda Monetary Authority 54814

Wikilix read the BMA register on Oct 22, 2026. This is what it said.

Holder
IG International Limited
Issuing authority
The Bermuda Monetary Authority
Name on the register
IG International Limited
Jurisdiction
Bermuda
Effective
Feb 18, 2020
Register status
Licensed (investment business and Class F digital asset business)
Permissions
Investment Business: Licensed Entities

Checked Oct 22, 2026

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What we checked

We found this licence on the issuing authority's own register.

Wikilix check
Confirmed on the register
Authority strength
Tier 3
Jurisdiction
Bermuda
Last checked
Oct 22, 2026
Register says
Licensed (investment business and Class F digital asset business)

Finding

Investment business licence for IG International Limited, the company behind ig.com/en accounts. It allows the company to deal in, arrange deals in and safeguard investments, but not to manage portfolios or give advice. The company also holds a Class F digital asset business licence as a digital asset derivative exchange provider. Client protection: Moderate: a recognised offshore regulator with client-asset rules. IG holds client money in segregated trust accounts, but there is no compensation scheme or ombudsman like the UK FSCS and FOS. Effective: 18 Feb 2020.

Verification note

The BMA register lists the licence under IG International Limited (Investment Business: Licensed Entities (a licence under the Investment Business Act, not a Class A or Class B registration)). The company name and jurisdiction match. The BMA register row prints Company Name 'IG International Limited' with a principal and a registered address in Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda. The broker's company is 'IG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED', in Bermuda, and this is also the broker's full name, 'IG International Limited'. The same register supports this: the same-named company's Digital Assets Business row, at the same principal address (Hamilton House, 10 Queen Street), shows 'Registration Number: 54814', the registration number of IG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED. The register records the licence as effective from 18 February 2020.

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In detail
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About this BMA licence

What this authorisation is, what it establishes, and what it leaves open.

IG's Bermuda authorisation sits with IG International Limited, the Bermuda company among the corporate entities behind the IG brand. The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) register places it in the sector "Investment Business: Licensed Entities", effective 18 Feb 2020, with no licence number printed. On 22 October 2026, the entry showed no liquidation status, and the BMA Warning List did not name the firm.

BMA describes this register as a search of entities currently licensed or registered by the authority, across thirteen sectors including banking, insurance, trust business and digital assets business. Within investment business it separates licensed entities from Class A and Class B registered persons, so this entry is a licence, not a registration. Its printed scope says the company is permitted "to deal in investments, arrange deals in investments, and safeguard and administer investments" and is "not permitted to manage investments or provide investment advice".

A register entry shows where the authority lists a company; it is not a statement about solvency or conduct. It covers IG International Limited as a legal entity, not every IG company or website, several of which are separate companies elsewhere.

This check found addresses at Hamilton House, 10 Queen Street (principal) and Crawford House, 50 Cedar Avenue (registered), both in Hamilton, but no telephone, email, website, status word or expiry date. A second row lists the same company in the Digital Assets Business sector as Class F, registration number 54814.

To repeat the check, search the company name on the regulated entities page of bma.bm with the sector on All, then read the Warning List. Removal of the entry, a liquidation status, a mention on the Warning List, or a move of the licence to a differently named company would each signal a change.

Written from what the issuing authority's own register published when we last read it. It describes a record, not the firm's conduct, and it is not advice.
The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
54814
Issued to
IG International Limited
Register status
Licensed (investment business and Class F digital asset business)
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Permissions
Investment Business: Licensed Entities
Registered address
Hamilton House 10 Queen Street, Hamilton, HM 11 Bermuda · Crawford House 50 Cedar Avenue, Hamilton, HM 11 Bermuda
The authority

About BMA

The Bermuda Monetary Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Bermuda.

Full name
The Bermuda Monetary Authority
Jurisdiction
Bermuda
Strength
Tier 3Lighter-touch supervision; protections vary and are often limited.
Established
1969
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
0 firms
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Fund, Derivatives, Securities
Licences it issues
Investment Business Licence
Typical cost of a licence
USD 30000-50000
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium

BMA is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

BMA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • No compensation scheme
  • Complaints routeBMA Complaints FSC Complaints
  • Maximum leverage1:496
This describes the authority's regime, not how IG applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against IG. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
IG International Limited
Named on the register
IG International Limited
Based in
Bermuda
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
46.0the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches IG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED below.

  • IG ASIA PTE. LTD.Singapore · Reg. 200510021K · Jul 20, 2005
  • IG AUSTRALIA PTY LTDAustralia · Reg. 096585410 · May 7, 2001
  • IG GROUP HOLDINGS PLCUnited Kingdom · Reg. 04677092 · Aug 18, 2023
  • IG GROUP LIMITEDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 04008980 · Jun 1, 2000
  • IG INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDMatches the registerBermuda · Reg. 54814
  • IG MARKETS LIMITEDUnited Kingdom · Reg. 04008957 · Jun 1, 2000
  • IG MARKETS SOUTH AFRICA LIMITEDSouth Africa · Reg. 07094705 · Dec 3, 2009
  • IG Index LimitedUnited Kingdom · Reg. 01190902
  • IG Trading and Investments LtdUnited Kingdom · Reg. 11628764
  • IG Digital Assets LimitedUnited Kingdom · Reg. 16304118
  • IG Europe GmbHGermany · Reg. HRB 115624
  • IG Bank S.A.Switzerland
  • IG LimitedUnited Arab Emirates
  • IG Securities LimitedJapan
  • IG Digital Assets Australia Pty LtdAustralia · Reg. 686210462
Provenance

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Also on record

Other licences IG holds

11 other licences are on record for IG.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

Start with IG's client services team on +44 (20) 7633 5431 or at helpdesk.en@ig.com. If that does not resolve it, write to the compliance department at compliance@ig.com or to Compliance Department, IG International Limited, 46 Reid Street, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda; IG says it will give a full written response within eight weeks. Under IG International's customer agreement, a complaint that remains unresolved can be referred to the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Withdrawals back to a card take two to five bank working days. For bank transfers IG gives two times: one help article says one to three working days to clear, another that the money should generally arrive within 24 hours, or the same afternoon if requested before midday. Card withdrawals have a minimum of 150 USD unless less is available and a maximum of 25,000 USD a day, bank withdrawals have no limit, and IG normally returns money by the same method and to the same place it came from.

IG's funding page lists debit card deposits, bank transfers and HKD FPS as free and charges 1% on Visa and 0.5% on MasterCard credit card deposits. Its charges page, however, lists a third-party charge of 2.3% of the transaction amount levied by the card processor, and the customer agreement reserves a reasonable administration charge for processing payments and passes all bank charges to the client. No withdrawal fee is published.

IG International accepts Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards, bank transfers to its client accounts at HSBC in Hong Kong and Standard Chartered in Singapore, HKD FPS transfers from Hong Kong bank accounts, and transfers sent through Wise. Card deposits are instant, bank transfers take up to three business days and FPS typically one business day. Payments must come from the account holder, business, corporate and prepaid cards are not accepted, and deposits cannot be made from an iOS device.

IG International's home page advertises more than 17,000 markets, with CFDs on shares, forex, indices and commodities among them. The range depends on the platform: MT4 offers forex, indices, oil and major metals, MT5 offers major forex pairs, key indices, select commodities and, for professional traders, select cryptocurrencies, and L2 Dealer is for share and forex CFDs.

IG International's main account is the standard CFD account, which clients can convert into a limited risk account where every position carries a guaranteed stop, with the premium charged only if the stop is triggered. Clients can add MT4 and MT5 CFD accounts in My IG, and Forex Direct gives direct market access on forex for a commission. IG also offers corporate and joint accounts and a demo account with every live account, while Premium is an invitation-only status for high-volume traders rather than a separate account.

IG International charges no commission on forex, indices and commodities, where its charge is built into the spread; its MT5 page gives minimum spreads of 0.6 on EUR/USD, 0.3 on spot gold and 0.4 on the US 500. Share CFDs carry a commission on each side, for example 2 cents per US share with a 15 USD minimum online and 0.10% on UK FTSE 350 shares with a 10 GBP minimum. Forex Direct replaces the spread with a commission of 60 USD down to 10 USD per 1 million USD traded, depending on the previous month's volume, and ProRealTime costs 40 USD a month, which IG's comparison page waives for clients who trade at least four times a month while its help centre ties a rebate to consistent, fairly high-value trading.

The CFD accounts on ig.com/en are provided by IG International Limited, a Bermuda company incorporated on 18 October 2019 under registration number 54814, which WIKILIX confirmed on 22 October 2026 against its LEI record, validated at the Bermuda Registrar of Companies, and the Bermuda Monetary Authority's register. Its registered address is Crawford House, 50 Cedar Avenue, Hamilton HM 11, while IG's complaints and payment instructions use 46 Reid Street, Hamilton HM12. It is part of the IG Group, whose ultimate parent company is IG Group Holdings Plc; IG says the group was established in London in 1974 and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index, and IG's contact page gives a head office address of Cannon Bridge House, 25 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2YA.

IG International sets no minimum deposit to open an account: its site says there is no minimum to open and no obligation to fund. When you fund it, card payments have a minimum of 50 USD, while bank transfers have no minimum.

Yes. IG International's site is not directed at residents of the United States, and its application form sends US applicants, including those in US territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam, to IG's separate US application. Applicants from the UK, most of the EEA, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore are sent to IG's site for their region, run by another IG company. A further 55 countries and territories, among them Iran, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, mainland China, India and Canada, are missing from the form's country list, although no IG page names them as refused.

IG International's support team is available 24 hours a day except from 10pm Friday to 8am Saturday (GMT), which IG also gives as 6am to 4pm on Saturday (UTC+8). Clients can use web chat, which opens with an AI assistant, WhatsApp, phone on +44 (20) 7633 5431 and email at helpdesk.en@ig.com, and logged-in clients can reach support through the Help and Support Hub in the platform. IG's customer agreement gives a second number, +44 (0)207 896 0011, and IG also runs a Telegram channel and a client forum, IG Community.

On ig.com/en, client money is handled by IG International Limited, the Bermuda company that provides the CFD accounts, rather than by IG Group Limited. IG asks clients to send bank deposits to accounts in IG International's name that it labels as client accounts, at HSBC in Hong Kong and Standard Chartered in Singapore, and IG International's licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority was confirmed on the BMA register on 22 October 2026. Those clients do not fall under the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which protects eligible clients of IG's FCA-authorised UK companies up to 85,000 GBP per person, per firm, and WIKILIX knows of no Bermudian investor compensation scheme that covers them.

IG International offers leverage of up to 1:200. Leverage is set market by market through IG's margin requirements rather than by account type, so the level available depends on the instrument traded. Applicants sent to IG's UK, European or Australian sites trade under those companies' own terms.

IG International offers its own web platform and IG Trading app, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingView and ProRealTime, plus L2 Dealer for direct market access and REST, streaming and FIX APIs. MT4 and MT5 run through separate CFD accounts with fewer markets than IG's own platform, and L2 Dealer runs only on Windows. The IG Trading app is on Google Play; on iPhone, IG offers a progressive web app and tells clients to check whether the app is in their country's App Store, and deposits cannot be made from an iOS device.

The CFD accounts on ig.com/en are provided by IG International Limited, not IG Group Limited, and IG International is licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority for investment business and for Class F digital assets business, which WIKILIX confirmed on the BMA register on 22 October 2026. Other IG companies hold their own licences for their own regions, each confirmed in WIKILIX's licence check of the same date: the FCA in the UK, BaFin in Germany, ASIC in Australia, the FMA in New Zealand, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the DFSA in Dubai, the Kanto Local Finance Bureau in Japan and FINMA in Switzerland. The FSCA licence of IG Markets South Africa Limited, FSP 41393, now shows as Lapsed on the FSCA register. None of those other licences covers an account opened on ig.com/en.

Licence 54814 was issued by The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), the financial authority for Bermuda.
IG holds this BMA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
We located this entry on the BMA register. Note that confirming a register ENTRY is not the same as confirming a live licence — the register’s own wording on this page is what states its current standing.
The BMA register prints it under IG International Limited, not IG. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates BMA tier 3. Supervision is lighter-touch and client protections vary.
Yes, BMA is classed as an offshore regime. That can be a legitimate registration, but it usually means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.
IG has 11 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 9 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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