<div>Tighter rules hammer IG Group's annual profit</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Online trading platform IG Group Holdings on Tuesday reported a slump of almost a third in its earnings for the year, hurt by Europe's clampdown on the provision of access to high-stakes financial betting to amateur traders.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=R8lm2OB4xr0:w7RRT_d0rJI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=R8lm2OB4xr0:w7RRT_d0rJI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=R8lm2OB4xr0:w7RRT_d0rJI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=R8lm2OB4xr0:w7RRT_d0rJI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=R8lm2OB4xr0:w7RRT_d0rJI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/R8lm2OB4xr0" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters