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Cfd Industry Statistics

76% of EU retail CFD investor accounts lost money in 2023—discover the key industry stats behind CFD trader outcomes.
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November 11, 2026Updated
Cfd Industry Statistics
Priyanka SharmaWritten by Priyanka Sharma·Edited by Elena Vasquez·Fact-checked by Nicholas Chambers
Published ·Updated
How this report is researched
01Editorial Scope

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02Source Research

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01 Industry overview

The cfd industry at a glance

The CFD industry remains a high-risk, retail-led leveraged trading market: in Australia, 68% of retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024, with losses exceeding A$458 million.

$10.8T[51]
Top-10 monthly volume, 2025
68%[31]
Australian retail losers, FY2024
133,674
Australian clients losing money, FY2024
1.4M[38]
EU cross-border CFD clients, 2024
Market size
The global CFD broker market was estimated at $8 billion in 2025 by The Business Research Company. This is a broker-market estimate rather than a measure of total underlying CFD notional turnover, so estimates across providers are not directly comparable.[52]
Forecast & CAGR
The Business Research Company forecasts the CFD broker market to reach $11.91 billion by 2030, implying an 8.3% CAGR from 2025 to 2030.[52]
Market share & regions
North America was identified as the largest regional market in 2025, while Asia-Pacific was described as the fastest-growing region. In the EU’s cross-border investment-services market, CFDs represented 11% of retail clients in 2024, equal to approximately 1.4 million clients.[52][38]
Segmentation
CFD activity is commonly segmented by underlying asset, including foreign exchange, indices, commodities, shares and cryptocurrencies, and by client type, particularly retail versus institutional. ESMA reported that CFDs accounted for 11% of retail clients among cross-border EU investment-service firms in 2024.[38]
Key players & concentration
The market includes large multi-jurisdictional brokers such as IG, CMC Markets, Plus500, XTB, eToro, Saxo, Pepperstone and Capital.com. ASIC’s 2024–2025 sector review covered 52 licensed Australian CFD issuers, while its 2020 product-intervention evidence said 13 issuers represented more than 85% of Australian retail client money, indicating substantial concentration among leading firms.
Pricing
CFD providers typically monetize spreads, commissions, overnight financing and other account charges. The FCA’s 2025 review found firms applying overnight funding charges separately to each client position, including where clients held offsetting long and short positions, and required closer assessment of fair value and total costs.[32]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Higher volatility, mobile trading, social-media promotion and growing interest in multi-asset access are supporting retail activity, while leverage, financing costs and weak distribution controls remain major risks. ASIC found that more than half of the Australian CFD sector had contravened its product-intervention order by offering margin discounts on opposing positions during its 2024–2025 review.[51][31]
Consumer behavior & competition
Retail participation is highly loss-making and short-lived for many users: ASIC reported that 67% of new Australian retail clients who placed their first CFD trade in the first quarter of FY2024 stopped trading by year-end. The FCA also warned in 2025 that finfluencers and offshore providers were targeting consumers with unrealistic return claims and pressure to become professional clients.[32]
Regulation
Regulation is tightening around leverage, appropriateness testing, product governance, marketing and client protections. In Australia, ASIC’s product-intervention order limits retail CFD leverage from 30:1 to 2:1 depending on the underlying asset and remains extended through 23 May 2027; in the UK, FCA protections prevent nearly 400,000 people per year from risking more than their original CFD stake.[31][32]
Latest news
In January 2026, ASIC reported that it had secured nearly A$40 million in refunds for more than 38,000 retail investors after reviewing 52 CFD issuers. In October 2025, the FCA separately warned that firms and finfluencers were encouraging retail clients to give up protections by opting into professional-client status.[31][32]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Cfd Industry

The leading companies in the cfd industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 11, 2026 · Next review December 11, 2026

Verdict

StoneX and Exness are tied at the top of Gitnux's 2026 cfd ranking with an Overall score of 9.2 each.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in retail CFD brokerage

    StoneX

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.2 · Retail CFD brokerage

    Why we picked it: It combines retail FX/CFD trading with institutional execution, clearing and market access.

    See in ranking ↓Visit stonex.com ↗

  2. #2 overall

    Exness

    Ranked #2 · 9.2 · Retail CFD brokerage

    Why we picked it: It focuses on global retail CFD and FX trading via a single brokerage platform.

    See in ranking ↓Visit exness.com ↗

  3. #3 overall

    Interactive Brokers

    US

    Ranked #3 · 9.1 · Retail CFD brokerage

    Why we picked it: It provides online brokerage and clearing, including OTC CFD products in selected markets.

    See in ranking ↓Visit interactivebrokers.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. No other segment places in the top 5, so picks 2 and 3 follow rank.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the cfd industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

StoneX

Retail CFD brokerage · US

9.2
2

Exness

Retail CFD brokerage

9.2
3

Interactive Brokers

Retail CFD brokerage · US

9.1
4

IG Group

Retail CFD brokerage · GB

8.9
5

Plus500

Retail CFD brokerage · IL

8.7
6

XTB

Retail CFDs and multi-asset investing · PL

8.1
7

Swissquote

Online banking, FX and CFD trading · CH

8.1
8

OANDA

FX, CFDs and online trading · US

7.9
9

XM

Retail CFDs and FX trading

7.7
10

AvaTrade

Global retail CFD and FX trading · IE

7.4

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 11, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Priyanka Sharma. (2026, February 13). Top 10 companies in the cfd industry. In Cfd Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/cfd-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Projection

Number of CFD accounts (Germany)

Number of CFD accounts grew from 188K accounts in 2017 to 292K accounts in 2022.

188.5K accounts
Start
+9.13%
CAGR · 5y
291.8K accounts
Projected
20172022
source-verifiedcfdverband.de2022

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

We see CFD workflow automation targets expressed as order-of-magnitude gains in AI-enabled reduced-order models, alongside persistent cloud-access gaps in 2023 data.

AI in the cfd industry

  • 1,000x faster design exploration is the order of magnitude Siemens reported for PhysicsAI reduced-order models compared with traditional CFD workflows.[1]
  • 100x faster GPU-versus-CPU prediction performance is supported by Siemens Simcenter PhysicsAI for AI-based CFD design exploration.[1]
  • 59% of CFD professionals had not accessed high-performance computing resources in the cloud in ENGYS’s 2023 survey.[2]
  • 85% of surveyed numerical-simulation organizations had begun testing or deploying AI in simulation workflows in 2026, according to a NAFEMS and Teratec survey.[3]
  • 5% of surveyed simulation engineers had experimented with transformer architectures in their simulation workflows in 2026.[3]
  • 26.2% of surveyed numerical-simulation organizations were operationally satisfied with the results of their AI initiatives in 2026.[3]

Automation in the cfd industry

  • 1,000x faster design-space exploration is the capability Siemens attributes to its AI-enabled CFD reduced-order-model workflow.[1]
  • 100x faster prediction execution on GPU than CPU is reported for Siemens Simcenter PhysicsAI in automated CFD design exploration.[1]
  • 10,000 airfoil variants can be explored in hours rather than months in the aerospace application example described by Siemens for CFD surrogate models.[4]
  • 59% of CFD professionals had not accessed cloud high-performance computing resources for CFD analysis in 2023, indicating limited workflow automation through cloud infrastructure.[2]

Digital Transformation in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 72% of digital leaders globally expected to increase technology spending in 2024, compared with 50% of digital laggards, according to a survey of 855 technology and business decision-makers.[5]
  • 34% of surveyed organizations globally identified replacing or upgrading legacy technology as a top digital-transformation goal in 2024.[5]
  • 54.8% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief digital officer or another executive responsible for digital transformation.[6]
  • 75% of digital leaders globally planned to increase AI-related business expenditure in 2024.[5]
  • 45% of North American technology and business decision-makers planned to adopt AI and machine learning to improve business within 12 to 24 months.[5]

Technology Adoption in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 67.6% of IT services were delivered through cloud infrastructure among surveyed organizations in 2024.[6]
  • 57.7% of surveyed organizations reported having a chief information security officer or equivalent in 2024.[6]
  • More than 50% of surveyed global IT decision-makers were exploring AI use cases or piloting AI technologies in 2024.[5]
  • 51.8% of surveyed organizations reported that AI solutions were somewhat or extremely rare in 2024.[6]

Cloud Computing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 52.7% of EU enterprises with at least 10 employees used paid cloud-computing services in 2025.[7]
  • 26.1% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used computing platforms for application development, testing or deployment in 2025.[7]
  • 71.7% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for office software in 2025.[7]
  • 65.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for security software applications in 2025.[7]
  • 85.2% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for email in 2025.[7]
  • 71.5% of EU enterprises using paid cloud services used them for file storage in 2025.[7]

Big Data in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 40% was the highest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[8]
  • Big-data analytics adoption averaged 14% among OECD enterprises with at least 10 employees, compared with 49% for cloud computing in the latest comparable data.[8]
  • 3% was the lowest reported enterprise adoption rate for big-data analytics across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[8]
  • 14% of enterprises with at least 10 employees across the OECD used big-data analytics on average, based on 2022 data or the latest available year.[8]

IoT in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 53% was the highest reported enterprise adoption rate for IoT technologies across OECD countries in the latest available data through 2023.[8]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

We see a data-quality and governance gap as a measurable constraint, with 95% of enterprise data leaders citing data-quality issues in 2024.

Data analytics in the cfd industry

  • 25% of surveyed CFD users ran simulations on fewer than nine processors in 2021.[9]
  • 51% of surveyed CFD users used cluster or blade-server computing in 2021.[9]
  • 8% of surveyed CFD users ran simulations on 256–1,028 processors in 2021.[9]
  • 29% of surveyed CFD users ran simulations on 32–256 processors in 2021.[9]
  • 4% of surveyed CFD users ran simulations on more than 1,028 processors in 2021.[9]
  • 34% of surveyed CFD users ran simulations on 9–32 processors in 2021, the largest processor-use band reported.[9]

Data Quality in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2025, 34% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for relevance and suitability, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[10]
  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for accuracy and integrity, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[10]
  • In 2025, 35% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for consistency and standardization, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[10]
  • In 2025, 43% of organizations globally rated their data excellent for quality and completeness, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[10]
  • In 2024, 95% of enterprise data leaders and practitioners reported a data-quality issue with a direct impact on business outcomes, across companies with at least $1 billion in revenue.[11]
  • In 2025, 46% of organizations globally said they were fully confident in their data quality, across surveyed technology and business organizations.[10]

Data Governance in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • In 2024, 32% of global technology leaders prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[12]
  • In 2024, 35% of U.S. technology executives prioritized data governance among their data-management areas for the next 12 months.[12]
  • In 2024, 18.3% of organizations reported having a data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[13]
  • In 2026, 76% of global data leaders said their company’s AI governance did not completely keep pace with employee use of AI technology.[13]
  • In 2024, 61% of supply-management organizations reported having a dedicated data-governance function, based on an Institute for Supply Management survey.[14]
  • In 2024, 81.7% of organizations reported having no data-governance or catalog solution as part of their governance program, according to a global governance study.[13]

KPIs in the cfd industry

  • Ansys’ 2024 software-license revenue was $1.264 billion, compared with $1.089 billion in 2023 and $989.0 million in 2022.[15]
  • Ansys employed 6,200 people at December 31, 2023, compared with 6,500 at December 31, 2024.[15]
  • Ansys reported $1.718 billion in deferred revenue and backlog at December 31, 2024, a forward-looking indicator of contracted demand.[15]
  • Ansys’ 2024 total revenue was $2.545 billion, compared with $2.270 billion in 2023 and $2.066 billion in 2022.[15]
  • Ansys’ 2024 gross profit was $2.265 billion, compared with $1.999 billion in 2023 and $1.815 billion in 2022.[15]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

We see broker growth and customer-activity metrics alongside remediations and platform expansion moves, including deposits and active customer counts cited for FY2025.

Growth in the cfd industry

  • Plus500 customer deposits reached $6.5 billion at the end of FY2025.[16]
  • Plus500 acquired 104,902 new customers in FY2025.[16]
  • Plus500’s active customers totaled 242,440 in FY2025.[16]
  • Plus500’s average revenue per user reached a record $3,268 in FY2025.[16]
  • StoneX approved 141,000 new FX/CFD clients and had 190,000 actively traded FX/CFD accounts in fiscal 2024.[15]
  • Capital.com’s client trading volume increased 92.1% year on year to $3.42 trillion in 2025.[17]

Differentiation in the cfd industry

  • CMC Markets generated 15% of net operating income from investing revenue in 2026.[18]
  • IG Group offered access to around 21,000 global financial markets through its platforms and apps in 2026.[19]
  • Capital.com offered access to more than 3,000 global financial instruments across multiple asset classes in 2024.[17]
  • CMC Markets generated 74% of net operating income from trading revenue in 2026.[18]
  • Plus500’s average customer deposit reached approximately $26,900 in FY2025.[16]
  • 22.59% of Capital.com positions opened globally in 2025 included a stop-loss order.[17]

Mergers and acquisitions in the cfd industry

  • IG Group announced the acquisition of Freetrade for £160 million in January 2025.[19]
  • IG Group announced the acquisition of Underdog in July 2026.[19]

Strategic partnerships in the cfd industry

  • Plus500 became a clearing partner for CME Group and FanDuel’s event-based contracts platform in FY2025.[16]
  • CMC Markets expected ASB Bank to come online as a platform partner during the 12 months following its 2026 update.[18]
  • CMC Markets secured a similar platform partnership with Westpac by 2026.[18]
  • CMC Markets had a white-label platform partnership in Australia by 2026.[18]
  • Plus500 formed a strategic partnership with Topstep in FY2025 to provide clearing and technology infrastructure.[16]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

We see workforce operating models and compliance training coverage tracked with remote and hybrid shares, plus large-scale training activity in simulation-industry organizations.

Hiring in the cfd industry

  • 35.3% of Dassault Systèmes’ job offers requiring at least three years’ experience were filled by internal hires in 2024.[20]
  • 6,500 people were employed by Ansys worldwide on December 31, 2024, including 2,500 in product development.[15]
  • 95.2% of Dassault Systèmes’ filled job offers were under permanent contracts in 2024.[20]
  • 1,400 or more internship and apprenticeship offers were posted by Dassault Systèmes in 2024.[21]
  • 2,609 job offers were filled by Dassault Systèmes in 2024.[20]

Employee retention in the cfd industry

  • 6% was Ansys’s annual employee turnover rate in 2024, including 5% voluntary turnover.[15]
  • 8% was Altair’s total turnover rate in 2023, according to the company’s workforce update.[22]
  • 78.4% of Dassault Systèmes employees reported pride and satisfaction in the company’s 2024 survey.[21]
  • 7.4% was Altair’s total turnover rate in 2024, corresponding to a 92.6% retention rate.[22]
  • More than 8 years was the average tenure of Altair’s current workforce in 2024.[22]

Remote Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 48% of U.S. software and IT professionals surveyed worked remotely in 2026, compared with 21% in France.[23]
  • 34.8% of global software and IT services respondents worked remotely in 2026, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.[23]
  • 10% of technology-services respondents worked under fully flexible arrangements in 2025, allowing employees substantial control over remote work.[24]
  • 84% of technology-services employers agreed in 2025 that the ability to work remotely is important for employee retention.[24]
  • 6% of global respondents worked fully remotely in 2025, defined as spending less than one day per week in the office.[24]

Hybrid Work in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 47% of global respondents worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, down from 63% in Cisco’s 2022 study.[24]
  • 61% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs preferred hybrid work in November 2025, compared with 33% preferring fully remote work.[25]
  • 52% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs worked in hybrid arrangements in May 2026, according to Gallup.[25]
  • 55% of technology-services respondents worked in a hybrid arrangement in 2025, the highest share among industries measured by Cisco.[24]
  • 56% of IT employees worked in hybrid arrangements in 2025, while 31% were fully remote and 13% attended the office daily.[26]

Upskilling in the cfd industry

  • 2,350 mentors were involved in Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Lab in 2024.[27]
  • 99% of Dassault Systèmes employees were trained in 2024, according to the company’s sustainability summary.[21]
  • 6,105 training hours were recorded by Altair Global in 2024 to support employee development.[28]
  • 7,000 or more training contents were available through Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE University.[29]
  • 96.6% of Dassault Systèmes permanent employees completed mandatory ethics and compliance training in 2024.[30]

Employee Engagement in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 22.2% of global software and IT respondents were happy with their current professional role in 2026, while 32.6% were unhappy.[23]
  • 37% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were engaged in May 2026, compared with 34% of hybrid employees and 29% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[25]
  • 92% of employees ranked collaboration and community as very important aspects of office culture in Cisco’s 2025 global study.[24]
  • 74% of respondents approved of fully flexible hybrid policies in 2025, the highest positive sentiment among the policy types Cisco measured.[24]
  • 54% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were thriving in May 2026, compared with 52% of hybrid employees and 49% of on-site employees with remote-capable jobs.[25]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

We see client acquisition and retention patterns tied to product-intervention findings, including ASIC’s Q1 FY2024 stop-trading share of 67%.

Customer experience in the cfd industry

  • 39 CFD issuers changed their target markets during ASIC’s 2024–2025 sector review in Australia.[31]
  • 46 CFD issuers improved their website content during ASIC’s 2024–2025 sector review in Australia.[31]
  • Approximately 80% of UK CFD customers lose money when investing in CFDs, according to the FCA.[32]
  • 52 Australian CFD issuers were reviewed by ASIC between October 2024 and December 2025 for their product-distribution practices.[31]
  • More than 38,000 Australian retail CFD investors received refunds following ASIC’s sector review, totaling nearly A$40 million.[31]

Customer retention in the cfd industry

  • 65% of new Australian retail CFD clients were still trading in the second quarter after their first quarter of trading, according to ASIC.[33]
  • 33% of new Australian retail CFD clients were still trading in the fourth quarter after their first quarter of trading, according to ASIC.[33]
  • 45% of new Australian retail CFD clients were still trading in the third quarter after their first quarter of trading, according to ASIC.[33]
  • 17% of Australian CFD clients were new clients in ASIC’s 2024–2025 review.[33]
  • 67% of new Australian retail CFD clients who first traded in the first quarter of FY2024 stopped trading by the end of that financial year.[33]

Customer acquisition in the cfd industry

  • 45% of new Australian retail CFD clients were acquired through paid online advertising on websites, social media or search engines in ASIC’s review.[33]
  • 20% of new Australian retail CFD clients were acquired through paid referrals, including introducing brokers, affiliates or client referrals.[33]
  • 94% of clients in ASIC’s Australian CFD-sector sample were retail clients.[33]
  • 27% of existing Australian retail CFD clients were acquired through paid referrals, according to ASIC’s sector review.[33]
  • 6% of clients in ASIC’s Australian CFD-sector sample were wholesale clients.[33]

Lead generation in the cfd industry

  • 20% of new Australian retail CFD clients came through paid referrals in ASIC’s 2024–2025 sector review.[33]
  • 45% of new Australian retail CFD clients came through paid online advertising in ASIC’s 2024–2025 sector review.[33]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

We see exposure and channel metrics alongside broader influencer usage, while the CFD-specific advertising measures remain low in the UK in 2024.

Marketing in the cfd industry

  • 1% of UK adults saw CFD or spread-betting advertising by text message or email during 2024.[32]
  • 351 FCA actions in 2024 concerned firms in the Contracts for Differences provider portfolio.[32]
  • 10% of UK adults saw an online advert for CFDs or spread betting in the previous 12 months in 2024.[32]
  • 17% of UK adults saw an advert or promotional message for CFDs or spread betting in the previous 12 months in 2024.[32]
  • 2% of UK adults saw CFD or spread-betting advertising in print media during 2024.[32]

Digital marketing in the cfd industry

  • 3% of UK adults saw a lot of CFD or spread-betting advertising on YouTube in 2024.[32]
  • 2% of UK adults saw a lot of CFD or spread-betting advertising on Instagram in 2024.[32]
  • 3% of UK adults saw a lot of CFD or spread-betting advertising on online search engines in 2024.[32]
  • 2% of UK adults saw a lot of CFD or spread-betting advertising on X in 2024.[32]
  • 3% of UK adults saw a lot of CFD or spread-betting advertising on Facebook in 2024.[32]

Influencer Marketing in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across B2B companies, 55% of marketing organizations were using influencers in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[34]
  • Across B2B companies, 58% of marketing teams reported using an always-on influencer marketing approach in the 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report.[35]
  • Across B2B companies, 43% of marketers reported outstanding results from their influencer programs in the 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report.[35]
  • Across technology companies, 64% of marketers reported dedicated and growing budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026, according to Nielsen’s global marketing survey.[36]
  • Across B2B companies, another 29% of marketing organizations planned to adopt influencer marketing within the next year in 2025, based on an Ipsos survey of 1,500 marketing leaders.[34]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

We see execution-volume scale in retail CFD operations and reported uptime figures, with 100% platform uptime for IG Group in FY2025.

Process optimization in the cfd industry

  • 281,247,909 transactions were executed by XTB’s retail clients in 2025, up 67.7% from 2024.[37]
  • 21,000 financial markets were available through IG Group’s platforms and apps in 2025.[19]
  • 100% was IG Group’s reported platform uptime in FY2025 across its trading operations worldwide.[19]
  • 8,245,297 CFD lots were traded through XTB in 2025, up 48.1% from 2024.[37]

Operational efficiency in the cfd industry

  • 15 offices were operated by CMC Markets in major financial centres worldwide in 2025.[18]
  • £117.8 million was CMC Markets’ EBITDA in the year ended 31 March 2026.[18]
  • 25.8% was CMC Markets’ profit-before-tax margin in the year ended 31 March 2026.[18]
  • 45% was Plus500’s EBITDA margin in 2024.[16]
  • 8 regulatory licences were held by CMC Markets across its operating jurisdictions in 2025.[18]

Quality management in the cfd industry

  • 74%–89% of retail CFD accounts typically lost money across EU jurisdictions in the evidence cited by ESMA.[38]
  • A$40 million was nearly returned to retail investors after ASIC’s review of Australia’s CFD sector in 2026.[31]
  • 19 countries were covered by IG Group’s compliance framework for its CFD, spread-betting, foreign-exchange and stockbroking businesses in 2025.[19]
  • 38,000 retail investors received refunds or other remediation after ASIC’s CFD-sector review, as reported in January 2026.[31]
  • 82% of sampled UK CFD clients lost money, according to FCA analysis of client accounts.[32]

Supply chain in the cfd industry

  • 97% of clients were retail clients at CFD issuers in ASIC’s 2017 review.[33]
  • 8 regulatory licences, including UK and Australian licences, supported CMC Markets’ global trading operations in 2025.[18]
  • 13 CFD issuers supplied ASIC with data for its review of retail CFD trading during the volatile period from 16 March to 19 April 2020.[33]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the software and IT services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across German digital-experience service providers, 7.6% of services for customer projects were delivered offshore in 2024.[39]
  • Across EU enterprises sourcing business functions internationally during 2021–2023, 28.7% moved information and communication technology services abroad.[7]
  • Among German IT-service generalists, 10.2% of digital-experience services for customer projects were delivered offshore in 2024.[39]
  • Among German IT-service generalists, 19.5% of digital-experience services for customer projects were delivered nearshore in 2024.[39]
  • Across European organizations, 35% planned to increase their use of nearshore outsourcing in the 2024/2025 sourcing study.[40]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

We see pricing and revenue-mix signals centered on CFD revenue components and profitability per lot, plus constraints around deposits and segregated client money.

Pricing strategy in the cfd industry

  • 13.7% of XTB’s total revenue came from currency-based CFDs in 2025.[37]
  • $3,023 was Plus500’s average revenue per user in 2024.[16]
  • 43.7% of XTB’s total revenue came from commodity-based CFDs in 2025.[37]
  • 77% was CMC Markets’ trading client-income retention rate in the year ended 31 March 2023.[18]
  • 36.0% of XTB’s total revenue came from index-based CFDs in 2025.[37]

Cost reduction in the cfd industry

  • £31.8 million was the reported decline in CMC Markets’ segregated client money in 2023.[18]
  • $1,456 was Plus500’s average user-acquisition cost in 2024.[16]
  • £4.3 million was CMC Markets’ one-time Australian customer-remediation charge reported for 2023.[18]
  • PLN0.7 thousand was XTB’s average client-acquisition cost in both 2025 and 2024.[37]

Profitability in the cfd industry

  • $768.3 million was Plus500’s revenue in 2024.[16]
  • £52.2 million was CMC Markets’ profit before tax in the year ended 31 March 2023.[18]
  • PLN227 was XTB’s profitability per CFD lot in 2025.[37]
  • $110 was XTB’s profitability per $1 million of CFD notional trading volume in 2025.[37]
  • £499.2 million was IG Group’s profit before tax in FY2025.[19]

Financial planning in the cfd industry

  • PLN14.612 billion was XTB’s net deposits in 2025.[37]
  • £427.8 million was IG Group’s net own funds generated from operations in FY2025.[19]
  • $12,000 was Plus500’s approximate average deposit per active customer in FY2024.[16]
  • $890.0 million was Plus500’s cash balance at the end of 2024.[16]
  • £125.0 million was IG Group’s announced share-buyback amount in FY2025.[19]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

We see simulation-software platform evidence using quantified category activity, including 36 CFD applications and 156 verified customer records tracked.

Product development in the cfd industry

  • 2,500 employees worked in Ansys product development in 2024, up from 2,400 in 2023, globally.[15]
  • $528.0 million was Ansys’ research-and-development expense in 2024, equal to 20.7% of total revenue worldwide.[15]
  • 6,500 people were employed by Ansys at December 31, 2024, including product-development, sales, support, marketing and administrative staff worldwide.[15]
  • $2.545 billion was Ansys’ total revenue in 2024, including $1.264 billion from software licenses and $1.281 billion from maintenance and services globally.[15]

Product lifecycle in the cfd industry

  • 21 or more industries were covered by the Computational Fluid Dynamics software category tracked by Apps Run The World.[41]
  • Ansys reported that its software supports product development from design concept through final-stage testing, validation and deployment in 2024.[15]
  • Ansys released its 2024 R1 and 2024 R2 software versions during 2024, marking two major product releases in the year.[15]
  • 36 CFD applications and 156 verified customer records were tracked in the CFD software category by Apps Run The World at the time of its latest page update.[41]
  • 7 active CFD software evaluations were recorded by Apps Run The World during the 12 months preceding its latest category update.[41]

After-sales in the cfd industry

  • $145.9 million was Ansys’ maintenance-and-service cost of sales in 2024.[15]
  • $1.281 billion was Ansys’ maintenance-and-service revenue in 2024, representing approximately half of its total revenue worldwide.[15]
  • $148.2 million was Ansys’ maintenance-and-service cost of sales in 2022.[15]
  • Less than 1% of customer service requests became customer-found defects at Avaya, a software company whose customer-quality method used CFD metrics.[42]
  • $1.181 billion was Ansys’ maintenance-and-service revenue in 2023, compared with $1.077 billion in 2022.[15]

Value proposition in the cfd industry

  • 43% of surveyed CFD users worked with compressible-flow simulations in 2021.[9]
  • 21% of Ansys revenue was allocated to research and development in 2024, supporting expansion of simulation software capabilities and usability.[15]
  • 48% of CFD survey respondents using budgets above $150,000 were concentrated in Europe in 2021.[9]
  • 33% of surveyed CFD users worked with volume-of-fluid simulations in 2021.[9]
  • 26% of surveyed CFD users worked with Lagrangian multiphase simulations in 2021.[9]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

We see disclosed emissions-intensity measures and target setting alongside conduct-issue distributions, including ASIC’s historical CFD review breakdown.

Sustainability in the cfd industry

  • 1.7 million kWh was CMC Markets’ UK energy consumption in the year ended 31 March 2025, representing 89% of its global total.[43]
  • 15.3 tonnes of CO2e per employee was IG Group’s emissions-intensity measure in FY2025, globally.[19]
  • 100% of CMC Markets’ reported electricity consumption came from renewable sources in the year ended 31 March 2025, globally.[43]
  • 18% of IG Group’s leadership roles were held by people from ethnic-minority groups in FY2025, globally.[19]
  • 1,060 employees worked for CMC Markets at 31 March 2025, globally.[43]

ESG in the cfd industry

  • 29 points was IG Group’s stated employee-engagement target based on its selected financial-services benchmark, globally.[19]
  • 35% of IG Group’s leadership roles was the company’s women-in-leadership target for the end of FY2025, globally.[19]
  • 29.5 tonnes of CO2e per £ million of net operating income was CMC Markets’ FY2025 emissions-intensity ratio, globally.[43]
  • 11.5 thousand tonnes of CO2e were CMC Markets’ total reported global emissions in FY2025, including Scopes 2 and 3.[43]
  • £340.1 million was CMC Markets’ net operating income in the year ended 31 March 2025, the denominator for its emissions-intensity measure.[43]

Ethics in the cfd industry

  • 3% of conduct issues identified in ASIC’s historical CFD review involved technical problems, Australia.[33]
  • £70,000 was the financial penalty the UK regulator said it would have sought from Accendo Markets for CFD advisory failings, UK.[32]
  • 41% of conduct issues identified in ASIC’s historical CFD review involved insider trading or market manipulation, Australia.[33]
  • 12% of conduct issues identified in ASIC’s historical CFD review were classified as administrative problems, Australia.[33]
  • 3% of conduct issues identified in ASIC’s historical CFD review involved complex or insufficient disclosure, Australia.[33]

CSR in the cfd industry

  • 302,158 people were beneficiaries of IG Group’s community-impact activities in FY2024, globally.[19]
  • 2 paid volunteering days per year were available to IG Group colleagues in FY2025, globally.[19]
  • 317,617 people were beneficiaries of IG Group’s community-impact activities in FY2025, globally.[19]

Carbon footprint in the cfd industry

  • 10.9 tonnes of CO2e per employee was CMC Markets’ global emissions intensity in FY2025.[43]
  • 159.1 tonnes of CO2e were CMC Markets’ Scope 2 electricity emissions in the year ended 31 March 2025.[43]
  • 15.3 tonnes of CO2e per employee was IG Group’s emissions intensity in FY2025, globally.[19]
  • 1,518.5 tonnes of CO2e were CMC Markets’ Scope 3 investment emissions in FY2025.[44]
  • 11,536.4 tonnes of CO2e were CMC Markets’ total global emissions in the year ended 31 March 2025.[43]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

We see cross-border client activity quantified through trade volume by region, and ongoing multi-country operating footprints for retail-access platforms.

Globalization in the cfd industry

  • 21,000 global financial markets were available through IG Group’s platforms and apps in 2026.[19]
  • $576.5 billion was traded by UAE clients on Capital.com in the first half of 2025.[17]
  • 53% of Capital.com’s Q1 2025 trade volume came from Middle Eastern clients, compared with 24% from Europe.[17]
  • 19 countries hosted IG Group operations across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North America in 2026.[19]
  • 15 offices in major financial centres supported CMC Markets’ global operations in 2026.[18]

Cultural adaptation in the cfd industry

  • 19.5 million trades were executed by UAE clients on Capital.com during 2024.[17]
  • 62.31% of trades by Qatar clients on Capital.com involved commodities in 2024.[17]
  • 16.24% of trades by Swiss clients on Capital.com focused on crypto assets in 2024.[17]
  • 29.64% of trades by German clients on Capital.com used a stop-loss in 2024.[17]
  • 64% of MENA traders on Capital.com held a university degree in 2025.[17]

Supplier management in the cfd industry

  • Plus500 became a clearing partner for CME Group and FanDuel’s event-based contracts platform in 2025.[16]
  • Plus500 appointed Topstep as a strategic partner in 2025, providing clearing and technology infrastructure for Topstep’s brokerage expansion.[16]
  • CMC Markets reported that Westpac and ASB Bank were expected to come online as platform partners during the following 12 months.[18]
  • CMC Markets provided a white-labelled trading platform in Australia and secured a similar partnership with Westpac by 2026.[18]

Stakeholder management in the cfd industry

  • 119,300 clients traded CFDs per quarter in Australia during FY2024.[33]
  • 45% of new Australian retail CFD clients were acquired through paid online advertising in FY2024.[33]
  • 50 Australian financial-services licensees issued CFDs to clients in FY2024.[33]
  • Australian quarterly CFD clients fell 76%, from an average of 515,000 before March 2021 to 119,300 in FY2024.[33]
  • 94% of Australian CFD clients were retail clients in FY2024, while 6% were wholesale clients.[33]

Distribution channels in the cfd industry

  • 27% of existing Australian retail CFD clients were acquired through paid referrals in FY2024.[33]
  • 22.59% of global positions opened on Capital.com in 2025 had a stop-loss attached.[17]
  • Capital.com expanded platform coverage to more than 5,000 markets in 2025.[17]
  • Capital.com executed 224.8 million trades through its online platform in 2025.[17]

Key questions about the Cfd Industry

What is the estimated size of the global CFD broker market and how is it measured?
The global CFD broker market was estimated at $8 billion in 2025 by The Business Research Company. This is a broker-market estimate rather than total underlying CFD notional turnover, so provider estimates aren’t directly comparable.
How fast is the CFD broker market expected to grow?
The forecast calls for the CFD broker market to reach $11.91 billion by 2030. That implies an 8.3% CAGR from 2025 to 2030.
Which companies lead the cfd industry?
StoneX and Exness are tied at the top of Gitnux's 2026 cfd ranking with an Overall score of 9.2 each.
What technology shifts are shaping CFD and simulation workflows?
Siemens attributes 1,000x faster design-space exploration to AI-enabled CFD reduced-order models. ENGYS reported 59% of CFD professionals had not accessed high-performance computing resources in the cloud in 2023.
What does the market structure look like for clients and market access?
North America was identified as the largest regional market in 2025, while Asia-Pacific was described as the fastest-growing region. In the EU’s cross-border investment-services market, CFDs represented 11% of retail clients in 2024, equal to approximately 1.4 million clients.
Why are client outcomes a key risk indicator in the CFD industry?
In Australia, 68% of retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024, with losses exceeding A$458 million. ASIC also reported 67% of new Australian retail clients who placed their first CFD trade in Q1 FY2024 stopped trading by year-end.
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