Strategic Positioning
Our Vision
Established in 1989 as a Foreign Exchange market maker, CMC Markets' vision was to deliver a trading service to the retail market that offered institutional-styled pricing and execution. In 1996, this vision became a firm reality when CMC Markets released the world's first online Internet Foreign Exchange trading platform. CMC Markets has subsequently extended the product base to include Contracts for Difference (CFDs), Financial Spread Betting and Currency Futures.
The success of CMC Markets can be attributed to a single company-wide goal - The creation of trading advantage for all our customers through product, service and technical innovation.
Commitment to Innovation
CMC Markets launched the world's first online, real-time Foreign Exchange trading platform in 1996. In January 2000 we became the first company to offer online commission-free Contracts for Difference (CFDs). This started a revolution in trading across the UK.
Following on from the success of the CFD service, CMC Markets re-invented and re-invigorated Spread Betting when it launched Daily Rolling Cash Bets in 2001.
By combining our commitment to offering the tightest dealing spreads in the market with the intrinsic tax benefits of Spread Betting, it clearly demonstrates our continual drive to reduce the cost of trading for the retail investor.
Commitment to Technology
Technological innovation always has and always will be the key to our success. The ongoing development of our award-winning Marketmaker® software allows CMC Markets to give clients free access to all the trading tools they need to deal successfully in the fast moving financial marketplace.
This live dealing platform offers a totally transparent real-time trading service. It displays live tradable prices that are simultaneously broadcast to all our clients. It is this open, price driven service that is crucial to maintaining confidence in the integrity of the prices being shown.
Marketmaker® has helped us become what we are today - a market maker with offices in eight countries, trading just under $1 trillion annually and serving customers all around the world.
Commitment to Lowering Cost
By acting as a market maker and utilising a highly efficient trading platform, CMC Markets continually strives to position the products and service at the lowest price point in the market. More than 98% of all trades are executed automatically over the Internet through our straight through processing system (STP), allowing significant savings to be made. These are then passed straight back to our clients through tight dealing spreads and low dealing commissions.
