LCG was originally established in the mid 1990s as a proprietary trading business, under different management. In September 2002, it commenced trading as an institutional broker (now known as Capital Derivatives) concentrating on the inter-bank futures market. The arrival at LCG of the current management precipitated the launch of LCG's spread betting division, Capital Spreads in October 2003. LCG's legacy proprietary trading business was hived. In October 2005, a Forex division was launched to market FX products to institutional client. This division trades under the name of Capital Forex.

LCG floated on AIM on the 22 December 2005 with an issue price of 82 pence per share. The placing raised approximately £15 million for the company and (at Admission) the capitalisation at the issue price was approximeately £31.4 million.

LCG derives its revenues mainly from its operations based in the UK.

Spread Betting

Capital Spreads
Capital Spreads offers an online financial spread betting service to private individuals, share clubs and private organisations. Customers can speculate on a wide variety of financial products and benefit from low margin requirements and tight spreads. The Spread Betting division also incorporates the Binary Bet business.

Capital Forex
Capital Forex offers financial institutions, hedge funds and professional traders access to multibank portals, enabling them to trade with multiple counterparties at the best possible rate with deep liquidity, using a prime broker's credit line.

Capital Derivatives
Capital Derivatives provides execution services for exchange traded futures and options in fixed income products for institutional clients.

London Capital Group Holdings plc (LCGH plc) is a company registered in England and Wales under registered number: 05497744.  London Capital Group Limited (LCG) is a  wholly owned subsidiary of LCGH plc.  LCG is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), a member of the London Stock Exchange and is registered under company number: 3218125.  Registered address for LCGH plc and LCG is: 4th Floor, 12 Appold Street, London EC2A 2AW.