IG opens up Web API to let traders build own apps

From finextra.com

IG, the FTSE 250 financial services company, has launched IG Labs - a new offer giving companies and traders access to the firm's Web API to enable them to develop their own trading applications that best suit how they like to trade. By releasing its Web application-programming interface or API - a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing Web-based software applications - institutions, brokers, individual traders and developers can now automate trades, build integrations and create trading apps that use the firm's market-leading spread betting and CFD technology. Ivan Gowan, Head of IT Development ... (full story)