Electronic trading major IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced transactions in its shares by its non-executive director Wu Gang.

On September 23, 2022, Wu Gang bought 1,300 shares in IG Group at a price of £7.655 per share.

Mr Gang was appointed as a non-executive director of IG Group in the fall of 2020. Wu Gang has a strong strategic and financial advisory background and a wealth of international experience gained from a career of over 25 years in investment banking in Asia and Europe. He set up and led the European investment banking team at CLSA Securities, the international investment Banking platform of CITIC Securities, from 2015 to January 2019.

Prior to CLSA Securities, he was head of M&A and General Industrials at ICBC International. Wu Gang also held senior level positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and London. He started his investment banking career at Goldman Sachs.

Wu Gang has an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, an MA in Asia Area Studies from SOAS, University of London, and a BA in English and American Literature from Fudan University in Shanghai.