“Prices and notifications in real time with the Apple Watch” – The Republic

[INTERVIEW] SECOND ALESSANDRO CAPUANO , MANAGING DIRECTOR OF IG ITALIAN FIRST OPERATOR IN ONLINE TRADING OF CONTRACT FOR DIFFERENCE IN OUR COUNTRY, THE FLOW OF APPLICATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE NUMBER AND BRING HIGHER IN TRADING Rome F are trading online with a smartwatch? And ‘possible: IG Group, a leading group in financial services and products for private customers and professional, listed on the London Stock Exchange, is the first broker in the world to offer the possibility to operate in trading online through Apple Watch. It will be sufficient if the customer has an iPhone app with the IG, because Apple Watch is not a standalone device, it only works when paired to the smartphone. What you can do in the real customer of IG? “We are in the first phase of development, the customer can see the prices in real time to all 12,000 tools of our platform, set up lists of favorite titles and receive notifications, even orders placed on the traditional platform, with the option to edit or to insert new ones, “says Alessandro Capuano, Managing Director of IG Italy, first operator in online trading Contracts for Difference in our country. “We expect that will increase orders from the mobile, but certainly the advantage is dell’AppleWatch notification. Today to check the status of an order, but also more simply to read e-mail, we are forced

to take our smartphone from his pocket, read what interests us and put it back in his pocket. With the clock everything is immediate and easy. ” Possible developments? “We already have plans to add news, the single title you have the ability to have alerts or to read important news, is something that could give an added value, while at the moment it is impossible to find technological solutions that allow to see graphics. Of course, today we are talking about a niche, of small numbers. He ‘a new product, when the iPhone came out there was now a feeling that would be the new standard. Today you can not do without the smartphone, I can not say whether the clock will become just as essential. ” The future is still in the cabinet. “Today if you have a smartphone platform you lose 15% in volume and this percentage is likely to grow. I do not exclude that, in five years, 50% of the orders will be generated from mobile devices: with the clock we expect growth of this market, at least its acceleration. Now platforms are updated before the cabinet and then in the desktop version. The real innovation is done on mobile and not adding new works-ity on the desktop, if you can not activate them even from your smartphone. ” Where, however, they coexist different operating systems. “The cost in terms of investment is high, it represents a significant barrier to entry, even for large banks. Our group always has decided to focus on mobile devices, to develop local language operating platforms: we have two trading platforms for desktop, a platform for each of the operating systems for smartphones, so iOS, Android and Windows, plus app for the different tablet and now the app for the Apple Watch, each managed by dedicated teams. This must then be translated into the different languages ​​of the countries where we operate. It ‘a significant cost, not only to design, but also for maintenance: any changes or improvements to be transferred across

platforms. ” The mobile trading is also growing because the technology allows you to automate trading strategies? “Actually, we have two different types of customers. There’s the customer who wants a trading unsophisticated and, paradoxically, this customer now uses only tablets and smartphones, and should not be on the desktop platform, many customers do not have a desktop computer, because if it is two or three trades per month on these devices He has everything he needs, account statements, charts and news. Then there is the professional trader who also performs 150 operations a day, but uses the desktop, use the cabinet as a tool in mobility when it has already set its trading strategies. The cabinet, for the sophisticated trader, is a compendium of the base platform, the Apple Watch is a compendium of the cabinet. ” How they are operating these traders? “We see a strong increase in volumes on investment products, I speak of stocks and bonds, while there is a marginal growth of derivatives in recent years had dragged the market. But it is normal to be so: it is a bull market and returned the part of long-term investment; derivatives products are “insurance”: with low volatility and with the perception that the market will go up, the use of these instruments has remained behind the growth of the investment instruments. ” Other news for the operators? “An initiative that is having some success in this period is what we call the Sunday Trading. Already we quotavamo stock indexes in Europe overnight, now the new headquarters in Dubai offer quotations on Sunday and is it possible to bet on what will be the opening of the indices on Monday morning. We are still on the low numbers, but the thing that surprised me is that, after the English one where IG is an institution, the second most active market in the Sunday Trading is Italy. ” (M.man.) You notice a marginal growth of derivatives. But in a bull market has returned to the component of long-term investment is optimistic Alessandro Capuano, Managing Director of IG Italy, first operator in online trading Contracts for Difference in our country